Club Velvet closing
According to Andy Jenks over at NBC12, after the ABC Board revoked Club Velvet’s alcohol license, Sam Moore, the club’s owner, has decided to shut the place down. At least that’s what his attorney, Kevin Martingayle, says.
According to Andy Jenks over at NBC12, after the ABC Board revoked Club Velvet’s alcohol license, Sam Moore, the club’s owner, has decided to shut the place down. At least that’s what his attorney, Kevin Martingayle, says.
Apparently the license was revoked after “ABC agents reported seeing underage drinking, drug activity, and illegal sex acts during an undercover investigation spanning several months.”
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So there is a god. Hurray!
But where will all the feminist pigs go? Think of the pigs, you guys.
The pigs? Think of the strippers… wandering the streets, giving lap dances for spare change.
This is great news! Will the Ugly Obama as joker mural come down, too? Sam Moore’s “BadBoy” routine is old. Just because he was born with several silver spoons in his mouth, doesn’t mean that the rest of us should be forced to endure his adolescent acting out by acting bad. Here’s hoping that Sam decides to get it together.
I get that shit was bad there, sometimes. I’m not naive and have done similar jobs. And I’ve worked for guys like Sam Moore, who make money by exploiting OPP; it smacks of latent homosexuality and a small penis. But there are people who make their living there: tuition (yes, that’s really a thing) and rent paid, children fed. Showing your tits for money (sans nipple, of course) is a legitimate job and still (barely) legal in this state.
I wonder how many people with such strong opinions about Club Velvet have been directly adversely affected.
The Obama banner is already gone.
I wonder what will end up there. It’s a pretty big gateway to the city coming down 95. Probably going to need many barrels of bleach before anyone’s going to move into that cesspool.
Awwwwwwww yeah!
Not cool!
Well I know at least ONE stripper who will be moving in with her mom, given that no one tags the hummer with feminist graffiti on moving day.
Tear the place down and put in some green space!!
I met my wife in the old Sea Breeze Cafe. When I drive by the Velvet and I say–that is where I met my wife. It aways gets a reaction from my passengers. I drove by the the Velvet the other day and some skinny girls in bikinis where out on the corner with signs. They looked emaciated and it was kind of sad. Strip clubs are just not my bag. I do remember going to Daddy Rabbits once for the steak & legs breakfast for the beginnings of a bachelor party. Talk about a scary club.
I hope he sells the property and a nice cafe or bar opens. I also wish he would sell the old Julians so a good restaurant would open instead of the vacant graffiti riddled eyesore that is on the corner now.
According to the cabbie/expert on crooked history at Richmondtown Taxi, Velvet stands on the land that used to house the magazine publisher that made Edgar A. Poe notorious. How? They published his inflammatory anti-government/society articles. So maybe that land was meant for a bad boy.
Maybe the next tenant will be an abortion clinic. Or a Bob Evans.
Maybe they’ll build something edgy like a tattoo parlor—oh wait….
Get rid of velvet. Keep the Obama sign.
I’m with @thecheckoutgirl. I agree that some shady things go on there but Velvet hasn’t ever directly affected me.
I don’t see how closing the club and thus forcing people out of a job (whether you think its a job or not) is going to be beneficial especially when whether you want to admit it or not, some of those women who work there are supporting their families from that job.
It’s not everyones cup of tea but its more than just Sam Moore that works there who is going to be affected.
L — The guy was breaking the law. Period. He was providing liquor, drugs, lurid sex, over-priced champagne and under-age girls in order to keep his business solvent.
Following your logic, should we stop arresting drug dealers because we would put them out of a job? Should we allow homicides to happen — without consequences — so long as they don’t directly affect us?
I’m sure the hot girls with a willingness to take of their clothes for money will pull through, somehow.
the comments betray the class of the commenters–people like checkoutgirl, who like myself know how thin the margins can be in a single-mom home, has a thought for the people who depended on this place to pay the bills–the others moralize like Ed Meese at Taboo with a blowtorch and the ghost of Ronnie egging him along.
all people like Ms. Wolf will offer as a solution for the newly unemployed workers of Velvet are things as vile and despicably useless as a restorative measure as ‘job re-training’ or ‘finding a church.”
or maybe social reformers don’t think about the little people. perhaps all they think about is the high-school level grudges they hold towards the owners/elite–the only people who don’t get hurt by their business ceasing operations.
I suggest that the women avail themselves of President Obama’s increased money for women to re-enter college. I am certain they would be excellent candidates for law, medical or business school.
billy bought the club. Hopefully will become a nice gogo bar
went to billys new place tonight. it was fun but just average. no liquor license yet and few employees but im interested in seeing what he can do with it.