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    Default Re: dancers made $3000 a night in the 90s?

    wow that would be awesome to average those huge $$$$$$
    yet customers still come in and assume i must be rich coz im a stripper.
    one guy even asked one of the other dancers that i work with if she drove a lamborgini?? yeh right maybe if customers started spending again.

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    Default Re: dancers made $3000 a night in the 90s?

    I graduated HS in 1995. I wish I was more confident and knowledge-able about stripping back then instead of spending my first year out of HS doing a TAFE Cert. course... I could've spent it making damn good money. I could've been "set up" by now.

    I started around the time of 9/11 so I have only know the post-9/11 times of stripping. *sigh*


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    Quote Originally Posted by Deogol View Post
    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.
    Well that, and the 'new' restrictions on business entertainment write-offs, tightened (or lack of) expense accounts, girls dressing like strippers and grinding on guys out in public for free (dumbases ), availability of cheaper and easier forms of sexual stimulation, vastly increased number of clubs and strippers to split the limited pie, etc etc etc. We'll never get back to those days. Well, MAYBE if about half the clubs suddenly close and clubs tighten up their hiring standards (ie, ONLY the hot girls and cap the number of girls on shift). But that's a big fat maybe.

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    Don't see that happening.......boo.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bridgette View Post
    We'll never get back to those days. Well, MAYBE if about half the clubs suddenly close and clubs tighten up their hiring standards (ie, ONLY the hot girls and cap the number of girls on shift). But that's a big fat maybe.

    Ha! This would require some common sense on the part of a strip club owner....and really, when does THAT happen???




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    This thread is making me sad. I wish I had been old enough to dance back in the early 90's. It is really hard to make money where I live these days.

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    Default Re: dancers made $3000 a night in the 90s?

    Hi...I visit sometimes but don't post a lot. Don't feel like I can offer too much most of the time as everything you talk about seems SO different from what I experienced.
    I danced during that "era" and make a ton of money mostly doing "private" parties after a certain someone (who I stayed with for 10 years) discovered me dancing in a small club one night and made it worth my while to change my dancing-direction.He was "well-connected" so I was able to get good bookings with little effort other than staying in shape and maintaining my looks.
    I truly believe that one reason things are "different" now was that back in the day,there was a "mystique" that surrounded dancers/strippers that is totally lacking nowadays.We WERE "unattainable goddeses on poles"..."and not for the average man to be trifling with!
    Many music-videos,movies,TV shows,and even just printed ads make "reference" to dancers,their poles,their "look",etc these days...my 9 yr. old grandaughter knows "moves" from watching TV that really freak me out sometimes,LOL!Baby-booty-popping...
    My stepdaughters,both in their 20's have both "danced on poles" at clubs for the hell of it....they are everywhere for drunken little darlin's to twirl on! I still have a pole at home and work out and they are annoyed at how hard it is and how good I am....brats!
    It is all just so dammed "in your face" anymore and I think "back then" not only was there more money flowing more freely but you actually had to seek out/pay for professional adult entertainment rather than being able to watch it on cable TV in a watered-down format any time you'd like.
    I miss it and hope that in my lifetime,the days of the "stripper on a pedestal" returns in all it's glory!
    I used to have to do "very little" to be paid a lot...I read your posts and wish it was all different so you could experience the "good times" as well!

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    Default Re: dancers made $3000 a night in the 90s?

    Hmm, I cant say from personal experience cause I'm only 24. I can verify that 9/11 did have an impact though, because I started dancing in 2000 when I was 18. I was making about 400 dollars a night at the Sugar Shack in Lake Geneva, WI, if that says anything... the economy was MUCH better. I went back there on vacation a couple years ago (I live in Las Vegas now) and the girls were making like 200 dollars a night. The same girls.

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    Default Re: dancers made $3000 a night in the 90s?

    What do you girls think would bring back these type of glorious nights?
    in order to 'rewind' the strip club business model to the mid-90's, you'd need to ...

    - close down half of the strip clubs and put the dancers that work in those clubs out of a job, so that like the mid-90's there will be fewer clubs and dancers thus more customers per dancer thus higher earnings per dancer

    - ban online escort services, so that guys no longer have that option - thus if like the mid-90's they really want to pay for sex they'll either have to 'take their chances' spending lots of money on a dancer, or have to settle for highly used streetcorner 'merchandise'

    - make local anti-dance club ordinances (i.e. lap dance / contact restrictions) unconstitutional so that local LE interference in profit making activities was again the same as it used to be in the mid-90's

    - make corporate 'equal opportunity' policies unconstitutional such that male employees of big corporations can again entertain customers in strip clubs as they could in the mid-90's without drawing lawsuits from female employees of those same big corporations

    - repeal the Sarbanes-Oxley law re corporate accounting such that corporate guys can again spend large amounts of money in strip clubs and put it on their expense account with 100% unquestioning corporate reimbursement, as was the case in the mid-90's

    - remove anti-smoking laws so that, like the mid-90's, guys could smoke, drink and get lap dances to their heart's content at the same time in the same place

    - remove airport security lines and reduce air fares by about 50% and make video teleconferencing 100 times more expensive, so that an equal number of guys will again frequently travel on business as did in the mid-90's - with strip clubs being a popular after-hours hangout again

    - ban online club review websites such that club customers won't know in advance which dancers are likely to provide high contact and 'extras', thus they'll actually have to spend some money in order to find out for themselves !

    - promptly prosecute to the full extent of the law any dancer caught doing HJ's BJ's or FS inside a strip club, plus any clubowner who allows these sort of 'extras' to occur inside his club, so that like the mid-90's these sort of 'extras' would be a rare exception rather than a frequent occurrence

    - and perhaps most important, lower income taxes, corporate taxes, environmental compliance costs, SSI / comp / unemployment insurance costs etc. so that about 3 million formerly highly paid IT and manufacturing jobs will again exist in the USA as they did in the mid-90's, thus providing 3 million additional club customers with a sufficient amount of 'discretionary' income to afford regular trips to strip clubs with decent levels of spending, as was the case in the mid-90's
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    Last edited by Melonie; 12-04-2006 at 05:24 PM.

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    Default Re: dancers made $3000 a night in the 90s?

    Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vyanka View Post
    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.

    What do you girls think would bring back these type of glorious nights?

    Was it bc it was fairly a new thing back then?

    Stripping was not new in the 90's .......not in my neck of the woods anyways . This club south of Boston called Alexs used to have guys and sometimes they would have girls , now its all girls all the time . There use to be more stripping in Mass than there is now , the combat zone in Boston now has 2 clubs and it use to have a bunch that had been around forever ..back from the burlesque days I suppose . Oh well things are always changing , I doubt it will ever be like that again ....
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    Quote Originally Posted by Melonie View Post
    in order to 'rewind' the strip club business model to the mid-90's, you'd need to ...

    - close down half of the strip clubs and put the dancers that work in those clubs out of a job, so that like the mid-90's there will be fewer clubs and dancers thus more customers per dancer thus higher earnings per dancer

    - ban online escort services, so that guys no longer have that option - thus if like the mid-90's they really want to pay for sex they'll either have to 'take their chances' spending lots of money on a dancer, or have to settle for highly used streetcorner 'merchandise'

    - make local anti-dance club ordinances (i.e. lap dance / contact restrictions) unconstitutional so that local LE interference in profit making activities was again the same as it used to be in the mid-90's

    - make corporate 'equal opportunity' policies unconstitutional such that male employees of big corporations can again entertain customers in strip clubs as they could in the mid-90's without drawing lawsuits from female employees of those same big corporations

    - repeal the Sarbanes-Oxley law re corporate accounting such that corporate guys can again spend large amounts of money in strip clubs and put it on their expense account with 100% unquestioning corporate reimbursement, as was the case in the mid-90's

    - remove anti-smoking laws so that, like the mid-90's, guys could smoke, drink and get lap dances to their heart's content at the same time in the same place

    - remove airport security lines and reduce air fares by about 50% and make video teleconferencing 100 times more expensive, so that an equal number of guys will again frequently travel on business as did in the mid-90's - with strip clubs being a popular after-hours hangout again

    - ban online club review websites such that club customers won't know in advance which dancers are likely to provide high contact and 'extras', thus they'll actually have to spend some money in order to find out for themselves !

    - promptly prosecute to the full extent of the law any dancer caught doing HJ's BJ's or FS inside a strip club, plus any clubowner who allows these sort of 'extras' to occur inside his club, so that like the mid-90's these sort of 'extras' would be a rare exception rather than a frequent occurrence

    - and perhaps most important, lower income taxes, corporate taxes, environmental compliance costs, SSI / comp / unemployment insurance costs etc. so that about 3 million formerly highly paid IT and manufacturing jobs will again exist in the USA as they did in the mid-90's, thus providing 3 million additional club customers with a sufficient amount of 'discretionary' income to afford regular trips to strip clubs with decent levels of spending, as was the case in the mid-90's
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    wish i was old enough to work back then. i've heard soooo many stories. i started as soon as i was 18, but i think in 1999 i was 15. so yeah, definitely missed out on the 90's. hah.

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    Default Re: dancers made $3000 a night in the 90s?

    Pay wage gap between men and women falling:



    (might be why there are fewer men in the clubs)

    Let me add, there are now more women in college than men. This means that even fewer men will be making college level money (which is way more than non-college level money) in the future.
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    I figured out how to get back those days!!!

    I'm a GENIUS!!!!!!

    I'm going to sleep! Then I can live in the nineties as a stripper in my dreams.... Yay!

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    Damn it. Can't fall asleep.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Melonie View Post
    - and perhaps most important, lower income taxes, corporate taxes, environmental compliance costs, SSI / comp / unemployment insurance costs etc. so that about 3 million formerly highly paid IT and manufacturing jobs will again exist in the USA as they did in the mid-90's, thus providing 3 million additional club customers with a sufficient amount of 'discretionary' income to afford regular trips to strip clubs with decent levels of spending, as was the case in the mid-90's
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    Just another goldarn jobs vs. environment problem, hey Mel?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Silverback View Post
    Just another goldarn jobs vs. environment problem, hey Mel?
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    Quote Originally Posted by ExoticEngineer View Post
    Ha! This would require some common sense on the part of a strip club owner....and really, when does THAT happen???
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    Quote Originally Posted by WiseGuy_TX View Post
    ...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.
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    '89-'94 in Atlanta were incredible. Cheetah was insane. Funny thing is that there were no such things as VIP rooms! Only one large VIP section that had the same tables as the rest of the club.. just a veranda area that was visible to the whole club. Any given night there were a dozen huge stars just sitting up there chilling.

    Dancing lewd and extras were absolutely unheard of! At the Cheetah if you spread your knees (yes knees) more than 6 inches apart then you were suspended on the spot. Giving your number to a customer was considered extremely bad taste. If your cootch didn't have enough hair then you had to start glueing eyelashes to it or take a vacation until it grew back.

    Girls who made less than $500 a night were serious outcasts, and they were few and far between.

    I worked with a girl who paid off her $120,000 house and both of her cars in less than 5 years. For that matter it seems like most of the girls at Cheetah back then were driving insane cars now that I'm thinking about it.

    I worked with a girl who made 10,500 one night. She tipped me more than a grand. Tim Rhodes and I used to split shifts at Cheetah, he would work 8-12 and I would work 12-4, we would split down the middle and still walk with 600-800 each (that was like 1992..)

    Then Tim went to work at Scores in NYC and would complain like hell if he made less than 2,000 a night. He was doing well enough to live here in Atlanta and fly to New York to work Tues. Wed. and Thur. nights every week. He bought himself a limo and a personal driver in NYC..

    If the dj was making that much then take a wild guess at how much the girls were walking with...

    God I almost wish I hadn't seen those days, it makes the current state of our industry very depressing.

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    I"m still not sure if I'm pissed at myself or not for not starting sooner.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Emily View Post
    I"m still not sure if I'm pissed at myself or not for not starting sooner.
    At least you did it, and far more importantly, played it right.

    I know of several dancers who started in the mid-late 90's and now own a house and doing pretty well for themselves. And I've met plenty that pissed it away on drugs and Louis Vuitton purses.

    I started in '99 and finished 2 years ago. I was actually making the most in my last 2 years but that was largely because I worked in clubs in bigger cities at that point. It took me a while to get the confidence to work in New Orleans, Vegas, London or Manhattan.

    I also really believe that part of the reason the money keeps getting worse is because customers are more jaded. There's a vicious cycle in the business that seems to have no end in sight. More clubs are opening, spreading the customer base thinner, managers don't put caps on how many girls work (remember the days when you could actually get a salary on top of your tips, or even $20 house fees? ), fees are skyrocketing even in smaller clubs, more dancers are giving more extras for less money, the customers are getting jaded and expecting more for very little money (I really believe that how much more degrading and misogynistic porn has gotten this decade also contributes) and expense accounts being able to be used at clubs by corparate bigwigs are going the way of the dodo bird.

    Also, stripping is becoming more mainstream. With Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears flashing their vagina all over the 'net, why bother going to a nude club? 22-year-old kids with no money come to the clubs to hang out, buy one drink and actually get offended when you ask them if they want a dance because they just came to "hang with their boys" and "can't we just hang out and talk? Why you gotta hustle me?". Guys are dragging in their reluctant girlfriends because strip clubs are "cool". Club managers don't give a fuck about any of this as long as they buy drinks and the dancers pay their house fee however they can. Midwestern suburban housewives are taking pole dancing classes.

    Depressed yet?
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    Default Re: dancers made $3000 a night in the 90s?

    ^^^^

    this is right on the money!

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    Default Re: dancers made $3000 a night in the 90s?

    I just had a thought. I wonder if other businesses that are affected by discretionary income and internet competition are suffering a sharp decline....

    I know that the music industry is, but what about gambling?

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    Stripping in the 90's and stripping now are two very different jobs. Not only was there no internet competition, there weren't even TV's in the clubs. No video games, no cell phones. There were just dancers and customers=high energy. Energy (which equals money) is so diluted now. Dancers were courted by both club owners and customers, now they're treated like the bottom of the barrel by those two. There was absolutely no contact then, and we were discouraged from talking to customers. The clubs wanted to keep an upbeat party atmosphere. Cell phones and email have allowed dancers and customers to string each other along in a way that didn't used to exist. There's a very different psychology to it now. It used to be more of a distant, mysterious, sexy, glamorous job. Now it borders on the kinda creepy.

    The sexiest thing you could see on TV was to stay up late to see Tawny Kitaen roll around on the hood of a car on Headbanger's Ball. Now you can access any kind of porn at any hour from the comfort of your own home.

    I think it's better to have danced then, then quit by '99, or to have started in recent years. I started in '94 and having experienced first hand the way the industry has changed has been pretty shocking.

    On a positive note, now there's Stripperweb. It's likely that many who stripped in the 90's don't have much to show for it now.

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