[www.digitalcity.com]- Score!! Scores is going to reopen!! Let’s go pretend hot girls like us for who we really are! Scores, the strip club made famous by Howard Stern’s stories on the Howard Stern show, is going to be back in dumb expensive fun action.
According to the New York Observer, real estate investor Robert Gans bought the building on West 28th Street where the famous strip club once graced the laps of Howard Stern, Mario Lemieux and Owen Wilson.
Gans already owns the Penthouse Executive Club on 45th Street and paid a few million for the greatest boob show palace of all time. No date as to when it will open but keep your fingers crossed. The liquor license is still pending.
Scores was closed in January 2007 after cops raided the club and arrested several employees on prostitution charges, proving that Chris Rock was wrong and there was sex in the Champagne Room. Undercover vice cops went to Scores and found sex was being sold in VIP lounges, backrooms and bathrooms. Supposedly, the managers told the undercover cops that it was okay to pay for sex because that’s why the sex dens were there. Quotes for “services” ranged from $300 to $500 for oral sex and $500 to $700 for all-the-way intercourse. For a VIP room, complete with a table, couch, and TV, the price was $1500.
But now the club’s under new ownership. And, with the recession, it’s a good time to buy a strip club. Richard Goldring and Elliot Osher, the previous owners, spent a half million more for the club back in 2004. Fast forward to April 2008 when the grand total came to $9.58 million, a great bargain for a place with a cabaret license that prohibits a rival club within 500 feet of the venue. Gans also spent $400K for a controlling interest in the holding company that licenses the Scores brand. That means someone’s going on a Scores road trip!
If Gans needs any insight on how to go about a reopening, he can find a lot of insight from the denizens about the opening on a strip club forum called Stripper Web. There are guys on this forum that are strip club nerds (which is kind of like comic book nerds except comic books don’t question your sexual orientation if you don’t buy them).
One member states, “I’d love to see a place that puts guys at ease in these tough economic times instead of making them feel they have to keep their sphincters tight for a few more hours outside the office.”
If Gans wants to take on the challenge of making a strip club comfortable, he should take a look at those in Portland, Oregon. This Northwest city once hosted more strip clubs per capita than any other spot in the US. And they knew how to make a guy (or girl) feel relaxed when they visited: everyone is welcomed (They even have a vegan strip club!), booze flows pretty freely, the strippers are friendly, and you don’t have to grease the palms of everyone; just get a beer and watch ladies work.
Another Stripper Web member wrote, “The owners of Penthouse want to bring back the old glory days of lap dances, bringing back the celebrity draw, the great customer service, drop-dead beautiful girls, and just a rip-roarin’ great strip club experience. Really, that’s what Scores was known for many (MANY) moons ago.” Sounds as if they’re warming up to Gans already.