Strip Club Reports

[Ozymandias]

Pardon the geeky title: just came to mind.

Fact: Young, uneducated, beautiful women are never going to stop selling their bodies to men who can afford them. That's just a cornerstone of physical reality, like F=ma or E=mc2.

Someone (maybe one of us!) will find a way to create a strip club experience for paying clients. It might work as a gig economy thing.

Imagine taking the portability of location intrinsic to AirBnB and combining it with service gig outfit like TaskRabbit, only in this case it matches a venue, strippers, and clients to an interval of time.

Like your driving your 812 GTS down I-75, and you get a text notification: a space over near Lenox (house, warehouse, office) is today's spot. You have a couple hours to kill before your VC meeting at Atlanta Tech Village, and it's in the neighborhood, so you pull up, park, show your app to the door guy (who scans it), and in you go. Full bar, poles, nude spinners. You order a drink, have some dances, empty your balls into a 19 year old vagina, and off you go, refreshed for your meeting.

Or whatever.

App-driven, leveraging participating real estate parters, etc. It's more inevitable than merely likely.

No, grognards like me or Niteluvr won't like it, but young guys will feel right at home. That's my future prediction!

O.

[SeekingHead]

I don't think the owners care to be honest. They let their managers and club staff run that club into the ground. Remember when we were all complaining about the dealers and riff raff in the club that the bouncers and management let roam at will and enforced the BS rules only on their PAYING customers. The drug dealing, constant cop calling, and underhanded BS there is what ruined the club. This is what happens when you let chuckle heads run a multi million dollar business. The cow has been milked dry, and the owners are probably on an island or yacht somewhere.

You could buy weed & coke right by the men's bathroom, I'm guilty of buying a dime bag & rolling a fat one under the DJ booth, so I wasn't surprised about them being shut down. Normally I just use my weed pen when out in public as you can't tell the difference between it & a vape pen.

Is Clayton county in their future?

[NewDude]

I don't think the owners care to be honest. They let their managers and club staff run that club into the ground. Remember when we were all complaining about the dealers and riff raff in the club that the bouncers and management let roam at will and enforced the BS rules only on their PAYING customers. The drug dealing, constant cop calling, and underhanded BS there is what ruined the club. This is what happens when you let chuckle heads run a multi million dollar business. The cow has been milked dry, and the owners are probably on an island or yacht somewhere.

[TooHotForYou]

No cities like this kind of business, if for no other reason than much of the money is under the table, so the city loses out on tax benefits. And forget constitutional challenges. That's now dead (constitution is what Supreme Court says it is). Strip clubs per se won't be banned, but expect non stop efforts. Particularly, but not exclusively, down here - (often using liquor licenses as the wedge) to attack lap dances and even nudity. Glad I got to have some fun, post divorce, back in the day!

Or did everybody get a lot of shit on their hands now that need extra money to get from somewhere because they can't cover it, went to businesses like strip clubs to ask for a loan, and they didn't fork over the money? Just something to think about. It's not about losing tax benefits with these places, it's about not being forked over a loan when the city is in trouble with something huge. I could see that, and the club should not be liable for anything on one hand. This is more of a fuck you to the owners of Follies for not helping the city out with a loan they needed than more of a hey we have to shut you guys down we are sorry kind of thing. On the other hand, as much as I hate to say this too, I think the owners of Follies should've complied. Some times you have to help out who lets you run your business in a big way. It's called returning the favor.

[Wleakr]

But why not just move to a new city that's more friendly to this type of business? If they are as popular as it seems then I'm sure their loyal customers would follow them. Plus it's not like a little extra drive would mean anything seeing as everything in this state is spread out. Or are most cities here putting out this bs making shit not worth it?

Let's be somewhat logical about this.

If it's just a simple matter of relocating, they would've already done that and avoided all the court stuff.

Follies got too large and built an even larger notoriety for its crowds and activities within. Taking its name to another location in Atlanta area would just bring different eyes to its business, but the fight would continue. The only option they had to stay open under the Follies name was to acquiesce and adopt their business model (contact, alcohol, etc). So the Follies name is done. Best to try out a business under a new name.

But it would not BE Follies. The bubble of nudity, alcohol, late hours and lap dance contact on the main floor gets smaller every year. Few cities and states allow all at the same time. The few places in Atlanta proper that do ARE NOT supposed to. That's where we get into which clubs are strictly air dance and which are not or, to translate, which follow the rules and which do not.

[AllTheTime]

But why not just move to a new city that's more friendly to this type of business? If they are as popular as it seems then I'm sure their loyal customers would follow them. Plus it's not like a little extra drive would mean anything seeing as everything in this state is spread out. Or are most cities here putting out this bs making shit not worth it?

No cities like this kind of business, if for no other reason than much of the money is under the table, so the city loses out on tax benefits. And forget constitutional challenges. That's now dead (constitution is what Supreme Court says it is). Strip clubs per se won't be banned, but expect non stop efforts. Particularly, but not exclusively, down here - (often using liquor licenses as the wedge) to attack lap dances and even nudity. Glad I got to have some fun, post divorce, back in the day!

[PunkedLife]

IIRC it began when they annexed that pet of a Buford Hwy to Chamblee. New ordinances. Loss of permits over bullshitty bullshit. Just becomes a costly PITA with all the lawsuits. RIP.

But why not just move to a new city that's more friendly to this type of business? If they are as popular as it seems then I'm sure their loyal customers would follow them. Plus it's not like a little extra drive would mean anything seeing as everything in this state is spread out. Or are most cities here putting out this bs making shit not worth it?

[AtlantaNights]

That's too bad. Never knew Follies was fighting so many legal battles.

IIRC it began when they annexed that pet of a Buford Hwy to Chamblee. New ordinances. Loss of permits over bullshitty bullshit. Just becomes a costly PITA with all the lawsuits. RIP.

[Focker 2]

It's too bad about follies. Let's just be thankful that we were the last generation to enjoy this type of club.

[TooHotForYou]

You probably also think the Earth is flat and climate change is a Chinese hoax.

Follies will re-open at some point. These legal wranglings can take some time to work themselves out in the courts. The wheel of justice spin slowly, but turn exceedingly fine as the old saying goes.

Like I already said, you can't just shut down a gold mine and strip club mecca like Follies. That would be like shutting down Disney World and Central Park. It does not compute.

I could agree with you here despite what they are saying. Follies may be closed for now and even may be for a long time, but it could happen that there could be a ruling where something unconstitutional comes up where they open again. Then again, they could be tied up for years and not reopen for a very long time.

[Niteluvr]

https://www.ajc.com/news/chamblees-o...LYKUD7X5TVUJ4/

That's too bad. Never knew Follies was fighting so many legal battles.

[Worf359]

I'm sure the naysayers will continue to push the fake news angle. Be glad you had it while it was here.

I find it amusing that Chamblee fought follies so hard when on just about any weekday you can go across the street to Spa18 and see the local Chamblee PD Supervisor going or coming from getting his freebie.

[AllTheTime]

I'm sure the naysayers will continue to push the fake news angle. Be glad you had it while it was here.

Sadly, I agree. It's over (a place like Follies, with all its cash / hidden business, isn't a gold mine for the city, just the owners, and that's all that matters). We've seen the last golden days of adult businesses; from now on, it will be just holding on or trying to survive in niche businesses / locations (with the events of the past few days, any case in federal court is now guaranteed to end up being against the Follies of the world).

[Wleakr]

https://www.ajc.com/news/chamblees-o...LYKUD7X5TVUJ4/

I'm sure the naysayers will continue to push the fake news angle. Be glad you had it while it was here.

[Rjintheatl]

https://www.ajc.com/news/chamblees-o...LYKUD7X5TVUJ4/

You probably also think the Earth is flat and climate change is a Chinese hoax.

Follies will re-open at some point. These legal wranglings can take some time to work themselves out in the courts. The wheel of justice spin slowly, but turn exceedingly fine as the old saying goes.

Like I already said, you can't just shut down a gold mine and strip club mecca like Follies. That would be like shutting down Disney World and Central Park. It does not compute.