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    What would you guys say would be the best era to dance in?
    Or if you could go back when would you dance?
    I have always been into the whole 80s "Girls Girls Girls" thing, looks like a lot of fun, i dunno maybe its just so i could wear my hair like the girls in Heart and get away with it!
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    I dunno, I think FlashDancing would be kinda hard in 7" heels

    Definatly the 80's for me

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    If we are talking money wise I'd have to say the mid to late 90's. Those of us who worked during that time know what I am talking about too. We were making plenty of cash with very little effort and in the mid 90's very little expected contact as compared to now.

    Now if we are not considering money I think I would have liked to dance during the burlesque era. I love all the costumes and props they used.

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    I would choose 90's because I love the music! En Vouge, Boyz 2 men, Return of the mack (song)...them some dancin' music!

    It's actually what I listen to when I'm driving to the club, totally gets me in the mood to have fun.

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    The late 90's was great!!

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    my mom danced in the 80's and when i started she showed me all her old outfits- ewww feathers and mismatched sequins, 5 in heels with no platform ( i tried them on cuz we're the same size and i couldnt walk in them they hurt so bad!) no on the 80's even tho the music rocks (i dance to depeche mode)

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    Early to mid nineties.

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    The 1920s because I would have been that outrageous Id have been a hit

    Otherwise, yeah the late 80s cos I hear that in Aus the $ were definatly much better without even having to try.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LadyLuck View Post
    If we are talking money wise I'd have to say the mid to late 90's. Those of us who worked during that time know what I am talking about too. We were making plenty of cash with very little effort and in the mid 90's very little expected contact as compared to now.

    Now if we are not considering money I think I would have liked to dance during the burlesque era. I love all the costumes and props they used.
    I would have to agree with you. I couldn't go one week in my old club without one of the seasoned dancers (and I mean that in the most complimentary way) relating tales of "the good 'ol days" when they made mad cash doing virtually nothing besides stage and air dances! And, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Melonie has shown us all what having a good head on your shoulders while dancing in that era can do...

    But burlesque would def. be the coolest- with the costumes, performance (!), and live MUSIC! I have actually been thinking about getting trying my hand at that...

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    burlesque dancers (top ones) anyhow, made the most in adjusted (and even somewhat in unadjusted) dollar terms. for example, they were making 1000s a week during the depression-- in that era's money.

    even features did very well, making probably five figures in today's dollars, without being top headliners. in a time when the average wage was hardly more than 30 dollars a week for all too many people.

    the earnings history is kind of hard to pin down, but what there is tends to be pretty interesting in light of the modern expectation that burlesque is about fun and never money.

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    Late 90s was awesome for me...ahh the good ol days.

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    I wish I danced in the mid to late '90's. Really. It just seems like it was more...fun.

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    ^^ I was just thinking the same thing.
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    Burlesque....it's totally me.

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    When I started in 2002 it was the most fun I ever had in my life! I know from girls that worked in the 90s that when I started the golden age was dying. I'd think I would have loved to dance in the early 90s..I thought the music and looks girls had going back then was pretty hot. Plus lets not forget..low contact, lots of guys, and little effort! The economy in the ninties was unbeatable!

    I wonder what it was like dancing in the late seventies though..like it one of those sleezy Times Square joints..not that I would ever want to but I'm just curious what those experiences were like for those women.

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    Stripping in the nineties was truly great, it breaks my heart that it had to fade away...

    I would love to have experienced stripping in the 80's in the time of all those hair bands. I used to love to watch head bangers ball in wide eyed awe and stripper fantasy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MsQwerty View Post

    Otherwise, yeah the late 80s cos I hear that in Aus the $ were definatly much better without even having to try.
    It was like that here too. I started in the late 80's and banked with nobody being able to touch me at all.

    Stage only and lapdances were unheard of as of yet in NJ.

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    The late nineties. I started dancing in summer of 2000 and I definitelly saw the money go down post 9-11.....and girls who worked before me or in 2000 got a lot more special treatment than now.... as far as gifts money etc. I remember going to work and not even thinking about having a game plan or how to get money out of people....they just gave it to you cause they knew they had to. When I was 18 I was making like 2--300-400 bucks a shift for not hustling or asking anyone for dances even....!!! EEEEKKKK!! not exactly how it is today
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    I'm 27 and hotter than I've ever been, so I'd say right now is a pretty great time!

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    ^Excellent answer. I wish I had been legal in the 90's! Anyone care to share their stories from that time? How much better was the money, twice as much?
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    Right now of course! but....Late 90's Silicon Vally!!!!

    It was soo easy, the customers were young hot engineers with new money, not enough girls in the area and NO CONTACT!!

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    This thread makes me wann cry! I wish i was born 5 years earlier...i coulda rode that money train!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bella21 View Post
    ^Excellent answer. I wish I had been legal in the 90's! Anyone care to share their stories from that time? How much better was the money, twice as much?
    For me it wasn't so much an "amount of money" thing, it was a "What you have to do for the money" thing. What I made per shift then was about the same as now, but then it was done with air dances, now it's done with grinding in VIP.

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    my mom was a gogo dancer in bikini bars, or topless in shwanky gown clubs... she didnt accept tips, didnt need to hustle, didnt do "dances", sat with who she wanted, never "paid house" or any of that bullshit, never "tipped out" djs or vip hosts or doormen, collected a paycheck like it was a normal job, and still banked...then she bartended and made even more money. bah. i think i was born in the wrong time. certain areas in the united states were BOOMING in the 70s, others were totally depressed economically... it is the same now. so many different little nuances in the economies... let's wait and see though....there might be one last hoorah before the world ends according to the mayan calendar, lol....well come back to this thread and be like "man forget the 80s/early 90s... 2010 was my YEAR! and 2011 was okay, but then in 2012 the world ended and 400,391 worthy jehovah witnesses went to vermont...err heaven...and the rest of us went to hell to dance in strip clubs for hell money"

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    for 'treatment' by clubs and customers ... very early 90's

    for 'earnings potential' ... late 90's during the most rapid increase in dot.com businesses

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