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| - Wow, I hear this will be making a comeback! I got so many flashbacks, I decided I have to do a review of the Horse of yore before it changes to a "modern" strip club.
I wish that hypnotherapy could be so accurate and encompassing, we could pay them to take us back to specific dates and eras in our lives. I would love to have gone back to the wonderland of the first time I went into CHT.
The guys at the front door were welcoming and made you feel like it was a bar that was closed, but they'll let you in after if you're cool. I love that better than a blank look. "I.D."
My first trip to Vegas was 1997 and I moved (t)here in 1999. So there were a good couple of years I went and blew Too much money there. Even Maxim and Man Show were gaining popularity long before arrested development and man child became clichés. It was a time for men to reclaim their honor from being schlubby guys.
There are at least a dozen women I remember off the bat. Man, where do I write about each of them? And I always had the same drink order, so I know a couple of bartenders would remember me, they were just happy to mix a drink that wasn't in the top 10 everyone orders, but not so damn obscure. Yeah, I bartended.
I went out with my first stripper/ entertainer/ dancer from there. Yeah, yeah, eew. I had my early 20's of experience in what we called "Nights of Sin" in San Francisco strip clubs, so I was... selective? She was in college and had an out plan. Not only that, she didn't do drugs, yeah yeah. But she also didn't liquor up to numb the pain of having to deal with the guys, either. We went to the closest place for breakfast after her shift, which unfortunately was a Denny's. It's now a cloverleaf exit from the 15 to Sahara east. And subsequent times out confirmed enough to me everything you thought was bs a few sentences ago. She did run her own business after college and then switched to another new career after she got married.
CH got a lot of things right, the music wasn't blaring all the time and there were bars on both sides of the main floor. When they expanded to the other room, the dynamic got a little iffy as people were always congesting the artery, wondering what was goin on on the other side. At least they didn't make it a VIP or some other type of upgrade room, that would make the main floor barren with cheap asses.
One of the best nights I had there was the night of a big summer dust storm and the fire department was called in. Fireman+ strippers, it was the most hilarious awesome classic hour I've ever spent in that building, even more than seeing Nick Cage there. Even more than investigating a particular folklore I heard about him.
I missed the Jenna days, she was in porn by then and after the Millenium, I wised up financially and paid off all my credit cards. I visited occasionally just for a drink and to sit at the bar. The girls I knew knew I was a server, so we complained about cheap customers to each other, albeit their decimal was a bump to the left of my job. Come to think of it, when I was considering moving, a couple of the girls hooked me up with people in restaurants to talk to?! I have a collection of CH bar naps back when they allowed the girls to write on them. They stopped that to prevent post shift shenanigans, before cell phone rules and when texting became a thing.
Strip clubs have changed from what I have heard & read. Guys drink energy drinks, djs blast house music instead of rock classics. The Vip is bigger and I learned my lesson, even though it took me 2 visits (to be sure). Maybe the new place will have a cigar trubador, or even give us a nice surprise with a kitchen.
I'll eventually check out the new place, I just wanted to review the good things they did and hope that isn't changed. Honey from all the different categories of the staff keeps tourists and locals coming back, definitely not vinegar. RIP, James, B.
And please put statues back out front!
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