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Post Number: 34
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Monday, March 19, 2007 - 6:07 pm: |    |
Since Dialh4hipster started the "Dirty Movie" thread, how about the topless bars???
I remember Benson's Lounge somewhere off Mound.
and the Duchess on Van Dyke. I drove down Van Dyke a few weeks ago and it was still in business!!! |
Sstashmoo
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Post Number: 50
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Monday, March 19, 2007 - 6:11 pm: | |
I remember Bensons, it used to be down on Davidson east of Mound. Rough place. |
Gargoyle
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Post Number: 58
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Monday, March 19, 2007 - 6:29 pm: | |
Let's see......the Gold Door, the Booby Trap, the Patio, the Dirty Duck, Starvin' Marvin's, Subi's, Jon-Jon's, Bev's Backstreet, the Pretty Woman.....Not that I've ever been to any of these establishments, you understand. |
Psip
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Post Number: 1561
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Monday, March 19, 2007 - 6:33 pm: | |
Edjo's, Virgo's Basin Street, Saxy's Sax Club, or so I am told. |
Gtat44
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Post Number: 71
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:20 pm: | |
Pointe Athletic Club.... |
Livernoisyard
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Post Number: 2851
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:45 pm: | |
There's got to be a lot of old bars with roofs and ceilings missing in Detroit... |
Old_southwest
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Post Number: 160
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:51 pm: | |
52nd Show Bar!!! |
Livernoisyard
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Post Number: 2853
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:54 pm: | |
quote:52nd Show Bar!!!
That wouldn't be some gay bar alleged to be near 52nd and Michigan? |
Old_southwest
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Post Number: 161
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:57 pm: | |
It wasn't a gay bar back in the late 80's to early 90's.
It is on Michigan near 52nd. |
Jimg
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Post Number: 808
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 19, 2007 - 9:54 pm: | |
"Show Bars" originally presented music shows rather than topless stuff...although the meaning may have morphed over the years. |
Fredgarvin
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Post Number: 36
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Monday, March 19, 2007 - 9:55 pm: | |
Already mentioned Starvin Marvin's on the Downriver Forum. Also Subi's. Remember Bogart's in Inkster and also Henry VIII's? Also spent some time on Michigan Ave at Goldiggers, as well as Islands and the 52nd Street Showbar. And, closer to home, the Atlantis Lounge in Lincoln Park. |
Dodgemain
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Post Number: 139
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Monday, March 19, 2007 - 10:43 pm: | |
Lets not forget Anteks on E. Outer Drive |
Psip
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Post Number: 1562
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Monday, March 19, 2007 - 10:49 pm: | |
good call DodgeMain, I had totally forgotten that joint. |
Bigjeff
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Post Number: 57
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 8:49 am: | |
Covergirls on Houston Whittier on the east side. Quite a strange place for a "sin bin." |
Ptero
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Post Number: 106
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 9:19 am: | |
Dirty Harry's on Michigan near Lonyo... |
Pgn421
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Post Number: 53
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 9:26 am: | |
Biscos on Seven Mile! Tender Trap! |
Bigjeff
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Post Number: 58
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 9:39 am: | |
Speaking of Biscos isn't there a Biscos on your way up M-19 going up to the thumb. Can't imagine where they get the personnel to work in that joint!! |
Pgn421
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Post Number: 54
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 9:39 am: | |
Biscos and Tender Trap! |
Imhere
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Post Number: 11
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 10:26 am: | |
Pointe Athletic Club. That was the 1st bar I was served at and I mean drink wise. I was 17 at the time and I remember it well.... |
Pgn421
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Post Number: 55
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 10:45 am: | |
Sand Castle. Royal Coach, before Pointe Athletic Club! |
Broken_main
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Post Number: 1193
Registered: 06-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 11:48 am: | |
The Gold Dollar(Cass Corridor) and The Foxes Den(Livernois and Fullerton) |
Professorscott
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Post Number: 270
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 11:59 am: | |
A former neighbor of mine is part owner of the Duchess on Van Dyke. It is indeed still open, but I saw him a few months ago and he said business is going down.
If you saw a horrible pun there, that's your fault; I didn't put one in. |
Cozmikdebris
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Post Number: 100
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 12:52 pm: | |
Landing Strip in Romulus |
Hybridy
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Post Number: 78
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 1:35 pm: | |
Garden of Eden and Centerfold
John R between 7 and 8 mile
holla |
Long_in_the_tooth
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Post Number: 27
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 3:29 pm: | |
Don't forget the ZOO on 8 mile in front of the fairgrounds. No stage, just a row of shower heads and dirt floors. And that topless/porn movie house on the corner of Woodward and 8 mile.... Cisco's??? |
Long_in_the_tooth
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Post Number: 28
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 3:31 pm: | |
Oh yeah... and that place over on the east side by
Todds.... the Can Can Room. |
220hendrie1910
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Post Number: 65
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 5:31 pm: | |
Long_in_the_tooth wrote:quote:Don't forget the ZOO on 8 mile in front of the fairgrounds. No stage, just a row of shower heads and dirt floors. Man, I'm curious now. Who gets the showers, and who gets the puddles?
Laughing in Ottawa. |
Eric_w
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Post Number: 64
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 6:57 pm: | |
Starvin Marvin's- that's a long time ago. I used to play on a hockey team that was sponsored by the bar.Marvin's owner was a good guy.
One the West side there was La Chambre's on Telegraph and Mocambo's on 8 Mile. I went to a place on VanDyke a long time ago I think it was called Vandy's-the girls danced totally nude which was illegal. I learned about the place from a lawyer-his brother owned it. |
Detroitplanner
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Post Number: 1108
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 7:07 pm: | |
And here I thought this was going to be a thread on where to find 70 year old strippers! |
Luckycar
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Post Number: 7
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 9:30 pm: | |
A right of passage for 18 yr.old Oak Parkers back in the 70's was The Patio on 8 mile.Legal age to drink was 18.Luke warm beer in pitchers,loud music,poor lighting......and oh the hot? women.Where did they get some of these?Was there a union that protected these young? ladies?It was like watching someones much older sister trying to be sexy.The painful memories are coming back. |
Ptero
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Post Number: 107
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 - 1:14 am: | |
Many moons ago Evel Knievel was at Mocambo's with his posse. Don't think they called it a posse back then! He came in with girls in tow. Looked like they were used to sitting in his lap. |
Mjb3
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Post Number: 148
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 - 10:05 am: | |
How bout the Tender Trap in Highland Park. The mayor(Blackwell's Dad) used to have a regular table there for business lunches(I don't mean box lunch either).
Pointe Athletic Club by Wooly Bully's was the place. Is it still open? Still a show bar? |
Supersport
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Post Number: 11429
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 - 5:26 pm: | |
This thread is great! |
Crash_nyc
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Post Number: 793
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 4:30 am: | |
Damn, I've gotta ask my dad about this one. He's a retired DPD Lieutenant who spent 4 years on the Vice squad in the mid-70's. As a kid, I remember him telling us after-work stories about all the topless bars they used to raid (albeit sanitized for out little ears at the time...). |
Norwalk
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Post Number: 36
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 9:29 am: | |
Didn't the Zoo have Mud wrestling? |
Thnk2mch
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Post Number: 818
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 9:59 am: | |
quote:And here I thought this was going to be a thread on where to find 70 year old strippers!
Too funny!
Reminds me of a sign on the side of Henry the VIII's on Middlebelt in Inkster.
" Wednesday is Oldies Night" |
Gtat44
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Post Number: 93
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, March 31, 2007 - 1:57 pm: | |
The Traffic Light on Joy Blvd. (Mt. Clemens) or was it the Stop Light. |
Jjaba
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Post Number: 5120
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, March 31, 2007 - 2:17 pm: | |
Henry Joy got around. There's a Joy Rd. in Detroit.
Lowell can describe Anderson's Gardens on Third Ave. near Wayne State. jjaba use to do sociological studies in there. Purely academic back then. Little tables where you sat with the girl of your choosing. The bar served you two drinks, and you paid right now for her drink.
There were hotels up the street just in case you were interested.
jjaba, Westside Bar Mitzvah Bukkor. |
Steelworker
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Post Number: 857
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, March 31, 2007 - 2:20 pm: | |
covergirls was my fav for a while when i lived northeast detroit 1 dollar pitchers on sundays, But too many trashy white people in there and i almost got beat up by 6 guys. |
Mrf
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Post Number: 3
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, March 31, 2007 - 4:44 pm: | |
Does anyone remember the SAX club? |
Professorscott
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Post Number: 277
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, April 01, 2007 - 12:34 am: | |
Sure, OG's Sax Club on McNichols near Hamilton. The name was a play on "Orgy's Sex Club", which they never could have called the place. I went in there once when I was seventeen and frankly I was scared out of my wits. But then I drank a bunch and became less scared.
This would have been, I don't know, 1978 or 1980 or thereabouts. |
Ptero
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Post Number: 108
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, April 01, 2007 - 2:36 am: | |
HAR, Jjaba. Ahhhhhh, Anderson's Gardens. I lived on Canfield right around the corner. We'd go in there to play shuffleboard. The girls hated we weren't in there for them... |