Posted on 05/10/2012 8:11:16 PM PDT by SmithL
The Lusty Lady has been serving the nude dancer and peep show needs of North Beach for nearly 30 years. But now that it is facing financial problems, San Franciscans should remember the club's place in the city's colorful history.
A case can be made that the Lady is the most pro-feminist strip club in the city - and maybe in history.
In 1996, the dancers at the Lusty Lady created a national sensation when they became the first nude club to create an "exotic dancers union." Seven years later, they had another landmark moment when the dancers banded together to form a workers' cooperative and buy the club from the original owners.
The board of directors also made a point to employ diverse body types and ethnically diverse dancers. So they are exotic, erotic and politically correct. How much more San Francisco can you get?
But now the Lusty Lady's business model is failing them.
On Wednesday a few of the girls...called on the city to recognize and support this civic jewel.
Granted, once you walk over the tattered and stained rug in the back room, "jewel" is not the first word to come to mind. And it is hard to imagine San Francisco's power brokers banding together to save a venue where the business model is to insert a $1 bill (no more quarters) in a slot so customers can watch live, nude dancers through a window.
Yet the ladies argue they are one of only two privately owned venues left in the city - the rest have gone corporate with strippers that look like Barbie dolls. They don't serve alcohol (which also allows them to put on a totally nude show). And they made "talk to a live, nude girl" a local catch phrase.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
"Since 2008 my paychecks have been going down, down, down," said Bijou. "I'm making half of what I was making when I started in 2005."Unions help a lot of people like that.
so, they want taxpayers to subsidize them?
lol
Wow so the Obama economy is hurting the strippers.
Only a union could destroy a business built on sex.
A union or the government.
Worse yet, a government union!
A male San Francisco tourist needs a pro-feminist strip club like a fish needs a bicycle.
Noooooooooooooo. The capitalism model is sooooooo evil and wrong. /s
I'm not even gonna ask what the stains are. Nope. Not going there...
Hookers and peelers are one of the best indicators of the health of the economy. They love their chrome, their mischief and what money can do. If the money isn’t there, they move on.
If you have a thriving economy the single guys have high disposable income. Once that dries up , the hookers move on to greener pastures.
They are on the leading edge.
Newspapers and financial reports wait for the information to come in and that’s typically a year later.
Accordingly, if the hookers come to town and stay, that means there is a economic motor running somewhere providing the single men with that disposable income that the girls like.
Great real estate leading indicators!
Time to relocate to the Castro district and go Tranny to evolve and AIDS the business revenues. Sorry ladies but those San Frans Mans no likey the ladies cans.
The internet is full of free porn. People are not going to go to a strip joint unless it offers some extra services.
Time to relocate to the Castro district and go Tranny to evolve and AIDS the business revenues. Sorry ladies but those San Frans Mans no likey the ladies cans.
ugly strippers don’t make much money
and as the economy gets tougher... waitressed and strippers get better looking. that’s nothing new.
unions try to help strippers keep their job... while preventing the prettier strippers from moving in (punishing ‘success’ or ‘talent’?)
my guess, there is a competing club in the area that has no union... and therefore better quality personnel
this must be the fault of bush
SF was never the same after DiFi was mayor. She made them put plastic windows over the front of the peep booths in the Ultra Room at the O’Farrell Street Theater.
Uhhh, so I’m told.
A male San Francisco native needs a female strip club like a fish needs a bicycle.
“peelers”
What’s a peeler? A pickpocket? A pimp?
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