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-Short Attention Span Theater-
S.F. strip club's hefty lady show sparks tempest
2006-10-04
Where else but San Francisco could a flap about the heft of the nude dancers at a peep show wind up as a union grievance? That's just what's happened over at North Beach's Lusty Lady, the town's only employee-owned, employee-run, fully unionized flesh arcade.

“Someone booked an entire night of "BBW" entertainment -- big, beautiful women -- and the clientele reacted by walking out...”
Like a lot of San Francisco businesses, the Lusty Lady prides itself on diversity, offering up dancers in a variety of sizes, shapes, ethnicities, attitudes and tattoos. But like a lot of North Beach clubs, business at the Lusty -- while steady -- isn't what it was a few years back during the dot-com years, so every customer and dollar counts. That's why it was such a big deal in July, when someone booked an entire night of "BBW" entertainment -- big, beautiful women -- and the clientele reacted by walking out.

The counterman wrote up the customers' objections -- "I came for fantasies, not nightmares" being one of the more printable ones -- and sent them off in what he thought was a confidential e-mail to the club's board of directors.
Posted by:Fred

#6  They fired the guy working the counter -- either collecting admission or working the bar -- for recording customer complaints?

How freaking stupid is that?

Oh, wait, there's the answer: "employee-owned, employee-run, fully unionized". Geez.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2006-10-04 22:22  

#5  .com, I am not a frequenter of those type of establishments but it seems like rather than appeal, it might be more useful to buy a yard of transparant material.
Posted by: Super Hose   2006-10-04 09:13  

#4  On the other end of the social spectrum:
Nude dancing ruling stands
Posted by: .com   2006-10-04 05:09  

#3  While deployed in the early 90's we used to get news through message traffic because there was no internet. I remember reading a message that was summary of news acticals that included one story about a public official that tried to write up a California strip club for a violation of the Disabilities Act because the stage shower used in "shower dancing" couldn't accomodate a quadrapalegic stripper. I saved the UNCLAS message and will cherish it always. I think I laughed for about a week.

LOL! priceless!

Super Hose I'll be lookin forward to your reports on the Baghdad by the bay and area!!
Posted by: RD   2006-10-04 01:28  

#2  While deployed in the early 90's we used to get news through message traffic because there was no internet. I remember reading a message that was summary of news acticals that included one story about a public official that tried to write up a California strip club for a violation of the Disabilities Act because the stage shower used in "shower dancing" couldn't accomodate a quadrapalegic stripper. I saved the UNCLAS message and will cherish it always. I think I laughed for about a week.
Posted by: Super Hose   2006-10-04 01:16  

#1  SF New Beauty Credo

Beauty can now be pressed from the eye of the beholder.

1) everyone must diversify their fantasies.
2) fantasies not a free thingy anymore.
3) everyone must posses a licence to fantasize.
4) random testing for proper lust inclusiveness.
5) fees licences and tests must be submitted 10 days before each actual fantasy.

this is in your best interest btw it will save the planet from global warming.
Posted by: SF Board of Supervisors   2006-10-04 00:47  

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