
There is an unusual location of goods
and services on the road by my house that leads to the freeway. See if you can
spot it.
After a right turn off of the feeder
street:
L Side of the Road: Closed Gas
Station
R Side of the Road: Pizza Hut
L Side: big Morton Salt complex
R Side: pile o' dirt
L Side: more Morton Salt complex (or
possibly a secretive government program camouflaged as the Morton Salt Girl)
R Side: trailer park
L Side: several lots of dirt, cactus
and either short trees or overgrown bushes
R Side: boat repair, RV repair and a little
Baptist Church
L Side: Dirt 101 (recycling center
accepting cement and rocks)
R Side: yellow school bus with large vinyl
advertisement for day care and for sale sign indicating, I'm guessing, a parcel of dirt,
cactus and either short trees or overgrown bushes.
Considering Kim Kardashian's latest photos, that may be more lucrative than originally assumed. (Kim isn't naked in this particular photo. See the one below.)
L Side: more big piles o' dirt and a dried
river bed
R Side: several lots of dirt, cactus
and either short trees or overgrown bushes and a dried river bed
L Side: Landfill
R Side: 2 story, relatively new, gentlemen's
club with enormous neon sign, luxury touring bus with full vehicle wrap
advertisement and billboard in front of parking lot
leading to a series of billboards marking the procession to the onramp.
The billboards tend to promote such
things as:
Liposuction, Child Safety Seats, Mattress Stores, Divorce Attorneys and God . . . lots and lots of God promotion.
L Side: dirt, dirt, cactus and Regional
Public Safety Training Center
R Side: dirt, cactus, dirt, dirt
L Side: DMV vehicle inspection station
R Side: entrance to small aviation center
L Side: dirt, dirt, cactus, dried
river bed, dirt, cactus, dirt, small hospital and gas station
R Side: dirt, dirt, cactus, dried
river bed, dirt, cactus, dirt and freeway entrance
Did you spot the aberration of
location?
Punctuated by proximity of billboard ads similar to these:
Referring to the establishment in
question's web site:
Going
the extra mile in expense to please your needs and wants.
(Needs? Really? Unless a prospective farmer, looking
to purchase a parcel of dirt and cacti becomes stranded and required rescue in
the luxury touring bus, I'm unsure of what other "needs" can
be met.)
7,000+
square foot showclub with the tallest poles in the valley reaching 30 ft high.
(Perhaps it is my lack of pole dance
observation, but I'm not seeing the benefit 30 feet of pole.)
Open
daily from 11:00 am to 2:00 am with no cover until 6:00 PM and no cover
for Military, Law or Fire everyday.
(Oh! Perhaps the "Fire" the appeal of
the 30 foot pole.)
Having no experience with
strip clubs, I turned to the site of all wisdom, (yeah you know the one) evidently 14 years ago the U.S. strip club industry was worth an estimated $3.1 billion.
The global strip club industry was worth an estimated $75 billion.
But only $3.1 billion in the US?
Looking up the net worth of Larry
Flynt ($400 Million) and Hugh Hefner ($43 million), I'm surprised.
Either sex doesn't sell as well
as we have been led to believe or more likely income and options are not
exactly in the above board, countable, taxable and Wikipedia realm.
Which leads to another question. Why are the the numbers 14 years
old? How many generations of strippers have (hopefully) moved onto other vocations
in the past 14 years?
There is no way that the county, state
and federal entities charged with the regulation of business income, the sale of
alcohol, food services, public health and g-strings are 14 years behind in
monitoring, implementing and collecting fines.
After an
expanded search . . .
because you know I want to thorough . . .
The US is the proud purveyor of over 5,000 strip clubs, double the amount of clubs 12 years ago, and Americans spend more at strip clubs than they do on ballet, opera, and classical concerts combined.
A really great article in Priceonomics has one last surprise.
After some ingenious research, Priceconomics reported strip clubs per city as:
Los Angeles, CA 52
New York City, NY 48
Las Vegas, NV 34
Philadelphia, PA 33
Detroit, MI 32
Phoenix, AZ 31
Atlanta, GA 30
Tampa, FL 28

It isn't what I would have guessed
and Portland? Oregon!?! Liberal bastion of environmentally conscious and equality
promoting people without need of outlet for sexual repression?
Or possibly a misconception on
my part.
Adjusted on a per capita basis, Portland is clearly the strippiest winner.
Just for comparison’s sake, Portland has more than twice as many
strip clubs as it has public restrooms.
In contrast, San Francisco, which is only a third of the size of
Portland, has four times more public
restrooms than strip clubs.
The reasons for strip club nirvana is
a warning to conservative politicians everywhere.
Oregonians have the right to “free expression of opinion . . . on any subject whatever.”
"Appearing nude . . . in public, can constitute symbolic conduct and be a form of expression."
In addition, "a club cannot be denied access to a location solely by the nature of its sexual content."
See what happens when you start giving people rights!?!
Oregonians have the right to “free expression of opinion . . . on any subject whatever.”
"Appearing nude . . . in public, can constitute symbolic conduct and be a form of expression."
In addition, "a club cannot be denied access to a location solely by the nature of its sexual content."
See what happens when you start giving people rights!?!
However, the best bit is a comment
from the owner of Casa Diablo, the “world’s first vegan gentleman’s club.”
Here, customers can
enjoy a hummus veggie wrap while watching performers shed their
non-animal-based g-strings and in a fashion only befit for Portland, change is given solely in
$2 bills.
"You're not going to find any fur, feathers, wool, or silk,
or any other animal products,” owner Johnny Diablo Zukle has said. “We're all
about love and compassion.”
Evidently sex (and knowing your
audience) does sell.
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