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dancers made $3000 a night in the 90s?
last night some of the dancers i worked with were saying that in the 1990s dancers made heaps more money than we do now. something like $3000 a night was not impossible.
is that for real?
i think the most in melbourne on a busy night of working very hard would be about $1000.
i can't even imagine being able to make $1500 or more - seems unbelievable.
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Re: dancers made $3000 a night in the 90s?
I can believe it...back then the economy was better, or at least people thought it was so they were more "free" with their money. I am too young to have danced back in the 90's, but I can tell you first hand that when I first started money was way different. I started dancing 5 years ago, my first weekend ever dancing I did over $800 on a saturday...now thats not the best money ever but that was my third night dancing ever so you know I sucked. Well I know I sucked, I had no stage presence and NO hustle. Aside from that my money was consistant. The first year I danced, I never made less than $400 on a weekday and I always did at least $600-$800 on the weekends...consistancy is the key. I never had a $50 night, those kind of nights didnt exist back then, and the funny thing is that all the older dancers were saying it sucked. They were talking about back when money was "easy" and in abundance, now I talk the same way.
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i wonder if it can ever get back to that?
it would def be nice if $400 was the bare minimum - i wish
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I danced in the late 90's and the money was easy back then. Once I got out of my newbie period, $400 was a bad night. $400 was a dead Tuesday. Those were some good times! Wish I knew then what I know now...
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jaizaine
i wonder if it can ever get back to that?
it would def be nice if $400 was the bare minimum - i wish
I doubt it will ever be like that again. If it was gonna, I think it prolly would have showed some signs of happening by now. Its a shame it really is. I remember when I first started they used to keep a pail next to the stage because it was the only way you could get all your money off when you were done. You literally had to use a freaking bucket to collect your stage tips in! Thats buckets of money! haha. I remember a point in time, we used to get so many $1's they stopped letting us trade them in at work so I had rolls of $1's in my sock drawer. My little brother used to come over to borrow money and I would peel some off from my roll and tell him to get what he wanted...It was so wonderful. Now I am stingy as fuck because the money just doesnt come *quite* as easy, its still pretty easy but you have to work harder these days.
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...its true, i saw it with my own eyes. I cant vouch for every city/country but about 1985-1995 (87-92 especially)were the money glory years in Houston and Dallas. No cable, internet or DVD porn to dilute the strip club experience. Half the current number of clubs. Buisness credit card write-off's. Booming economy like never seen since. I agree with echomadisons "bucket" example, it happened. I knew an ATF ,back in the day, that made $2000-3000 easily and she was'nt even much of a hustler.
Think Anna Nicole and Howard Marshall.
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Yeah, I danced in the 90s. Maybe like 6 dancers in NY would not have been surprised to make $3000. The rest of us would have been pretty much as surprised as now.
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Yes it's true, at least in the more popular upscale big city clubs ! I know because I was there !! While I wouldn't say that $3000 a night was repeatable, back then it was fairly common to average $1000 a night and hit $3000 on a busy night with some regularity ... WITHOUT as much contact as is typically expected today, and WITH a lot more respect from customers. In fact, once in a while it was possible to earn MORE than $3000 (my personal best was a bit over 7k in one 6 hour shift) !
This was the time of the 'tech boom' and the 'stock market that would never end', when tech guys / business guys / bankers / brokers had tons of money to spend and no corporate directives in effect to prevent them from spending it in strip clubs ! This was also the time when X rated pay websites, X rated cable TV pay-per-views, online escort booking services, strip club customer review sites etc. were in their infancy, as well as a pre-conservative political climate - thus guys had fewer options available other than clubs and politicians / cops had fewer reasons to bother clubs !
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All the money is going into corporate CEO's golden parachutes. When the top dogs are making 350x's more than the average worker in their company - there just isn't the money spread around anymore.
Yes, the economy is good - but for a smaller and smaller amount of people.
Amazing what can happen in 12 to 16 years.
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There are just so many other things for these guys to spend their money on. And for less money than they'd spend in a club, they could go and get whatever they want. Granted that option has always been there, but it's so much more accessable now...
This is on top of all the economy stuff, and money distribution stuff.
Also, once 9/11 hit, people in general weren't spending on 'luxury' items quite as much... And strippers are 'luxury' items...
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I agree its not just a myth. I worked in the 90's started dancing in 95. bad nights were anything under 600. I danced in NY at the time though, so I dont know how true that would be for women that were dancing in smaller cities . My best night in the 90's ( after tip out ) was a lil over 5 grand. It makes me wanna beat the shit out of myself for never saving it or doing anything productive with it.
I was barely 18 and making so much money that I was stupid about it. I really thought that that kinda money would always exist. And then 911 happened and drastically changed that. I was still dancing in NY at the time. I remember going to work the day before 911, I made 1500. I went back to work 2 weeks after 911, I wa s lucky to have made 300 .!! ( this was at scores. )
Obviously shit has recovered by now a bit. The first year after 911 was by far the worst in my dancing career.
But i have at least one night a week ( in a 3 day work week ) where I bring home over a grand. So honestly, the dynamics of making that great money still exists. You have to work in the right club, have a great hustle and network with other girls. Otherwise you wont make shit.
IT was the same then as well. Only I think in the 80's and 90's you didnt have to hustle as hard. It was more about being " strippery"
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I started before 9/11 and it was WAAAAYYYYY different than it is now . The attitudes where better and the money was better . I worked the weekend after 9/11 and it was awful , just completely dead ( I was in the Boston area though ) anyways men seem different now though even though it was really not too long ago , they are all about how much they can get from us with out having to give anything .....................
happily single
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yea, i'd agree, definitely not all dancers. but a g a night, totally possible. i started dancing a year before 9/11 too and i actually make much better money now. but i think that's because i have had years of practice with my hustle. nowadays, if i make less than 400 it's most definitely a baaaad night. and i have to agree with tart, there's definitely usually one night a week i bring home a grand or more. i also work 3 day workweeks.
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Girls at my club talk about "back in the day" if you made less than a grand you were really pissed!!! Less than a grand was a really bad night! This one girl in my club has danced for 16 yrs, she's so ready to get out, going to school and almost done. I She worked at the Gold Club when it was big. I asked her seriously, what was the most money you ever made in one night and she told me $20,000!!! I didn't believe her, she said she really did, this billionaire came in the Gold Club and she didn't know he was rich because she was so young then, she was just joking around with him and he asked her how much money she wanted and she jokingly said "I'll take $20 grand" and he said "done" and ordered $20 grand in funny money! She about shit her pants.
I'm so pissed I didn't get a chance to work during those days! I had to start now at 30! Ughh!!! What was I thinking, I have a college degree and still make more doing this!
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leogirl876
she was just joking around with him and he asked her how much money she wanted and she jokingly said "I'll take $20 grand" and he said "done" and ordered $20 grand in funny money! She about shit her pants.
Shit, I almost cam on myself after reading that one! :D
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Tart
It was more about being " strippery"
K, this made me crack up.....Now I am going to think of myself as "being strippery" whenever I get ready for work! ;D
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I met a girl who used to dance at Scores in the late nineties and said she used to bank.. She said an off night for her was $1000 and a great night $10,000...... damn thats crazy.
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What WiseGuy and Melonie said. YES the money was MUCH better in the 90s, easier to make and for waaaayy less contact. Generally speaking. $3k a night wasn't the norm, not even close, but it was normal for alot of girls to average $1k, and hit $3k occasionally. Hell $2k was fairly common.
Lots of reasons for that, which were also mentioned.
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Yeah I agree that it was A LOT easier money and A LOT less contact but since I've returned to dancing in the last couple years, the only times I have made more than $1500 it has just been pure luck and it doesn't happen as much as it did "back in the day" Still , I can't remember $3000 being an average night for any of the girls I knew in any city. Wouldn't it be nice if that were the case now?
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KamrynAnne
I met a girl who used to dance at Scores in the late nineties and said she used to bank.. She said an off night for her was $1000 and a great night $10,000...... damn thats crazy.
yep i sorta agree. thats where i worked in the 90's. but i think the overall there was
a bad night was under 500, a good or avg was between 6-grand, a great was 1,000 plus
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Wow-wee, holy fuck i'm jealous. lol. I was a pimply kid with braces in the 90's, so that wasn't my time. :D
What do you girls think would bring back these type of glorious nights?
Was it bc it was fairly a new thing back then?
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Vyanka
What do you girls think would bring back these type of glorious nights?
That right there is the 3k dollar question........
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I really wanted to become a stripper in 1998. I was a freshman in college, and I'd always been turned on by the idea of dancing naked in front of strangers for money. Friends talked me out of it though... I thought I would have to give blowjobs and handjobs, and fuck the managers. I had no idea you could be a clean dancer and not do that stuff. I REALLY wish I'd known. My life might've been a whole lot easier in my college years!
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Vyanka
What do you girls think would bring back these type of glorious nights?
There is no costume or tease that will do it.
After 16 years of moving factories over seas (as well as R&D now) and creating walmart jobs - I doubt it is ever going to happen again.
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I started dancing in 91, and yes not just the money but everything was different back then than it is now. I averaged anywhere between $600 to $1000 a night, busy nights being anywhere from $1000 to $2000. Note this was all air dance and it wasnt one of the super upscale clubs either. It was different then thats for sure. I still miss those days!!