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A WALK DOWN MEMORY LANE


How many previous names of the clubs below can you recall? I’ll give you a hint. Some of these clubs have had more than one name change since 1996. Answers are below.


Jungle Kitten Club Blue Velvet Las Vegas

Lollipop’s Volcano Marine Bar Cartoons

Insomnia After Dark Brown Sugar Cottontails

Rhapsody Dirty Duck Blue Nile Angels

Kokomo’s Bananitas Valentine’s Champagne

Shanno’s Blue Fox Exotica Treasure Island

G-Spot Ayer’s Rock Silk Stocking

Current Voodoo Club

Two bars between King of Diamonds and Marine Bar


Here are the answers. I believe this information is accurate. If any of you see any errors or have additional input, please write and let me know.


Thanks to several friends who helped recall a lot of this information.


Remember when The Jungle Club was named “Connections”? I got a “strawberry” out of that club once. What a sweetie she was.


How about the current Kitten Club? It was “Viking” way back in 1996-1997. It was one of the few clubs, the only one I remember, where the girls danced on the floor. There was no stage. Back in November 1996, I took two dynamite babes out of this club. I also took a chick that still today, has the finest ass I’ve ever seen, or touched, or kissed. She wasn’t bad-looking but I took her for her beautiful balacan.


Viking closed and reopened as “Valhalla”. I never went in Valhalla much. After Valhalla closed, it was remodeled and opened under the current name of the “Kitten Club”.


Remember when the second building just past M-ville on the left as you walk toward Jeepney Park was the old “Archie’s” Club? What a great place that was way back in 1996-1997. I could write a book about that club. I won’t because some of friends have said if I do, they will kill me.


Archie’s closed and reopened under the name of “Bronco’s”. It closed and reopened again under the name of “Blue Velvet”. It didn’t survive very long as “Blue Velvet”.


Remember the old “Abbey Road” club? What a dead place that was. It’s now the Las Vegas club.


How about the “Classroom” bar? It’s now “Lollipop’s”, also closed, at least for the time being. If you’re a real AC old-timer, you will remember the name before “Classroom”, the “Pit Stop”.


You have a great talent for details if you can remember the name of the club on the site of the current Volcano bar. It was Blue Hawaii. This one is difficult to remember because Blue Hawaii sat closed for a long time and then was torn completely down to erect the current building housing the Volcano Club.


Probably nobody remembers “Gold Coaster” or perhaps “Gold Coast”, at the site of the current Silk Stocking Bar.


Does anyone remember going to the “Temple of Rock” club? It was purchased by the AC bar group and reopened under the name of “Mudbones”. Then the name was changed to “Splash”. It was sold, sort of, maybe… and reopened under the name of “Marine Bar”. It’s now closed also.


Do you recall the old Fire Station Bar, next to the Orchid Inn Hotel? It closed and re-opened as “Cartoons”. It’s been closed for a couple of years now. What was the name of the bar there before Fire Station? It was “Buccaneer’s”.


What about the Xanadu bar next to the Club? It was the first club purchased by the AC Club group in 1997 and renamed Voodoo. I used to take two and three chicks out of there at a time. Oh the stories I could tell about the Xanadu and Voodoo clubs. Desiring to remain in AC in one piece just a little longer, I won’t.


Last year Voodoo changed hands and was renamed Insomnia.


Remember the “Private Dancer I” club? This was another great bar in 1996-1997. It was sold and reopened under the name of “After Dark”, and was part of the AC bar group. The back wall was knocked down where you could move between the two clubs without going outside. After Dark was eventually shut down, leaving the current club, Insomnia operating by itself.


Old hands will recall “Ziggy’s”, with the dance floor in the center that extended almost the length of the building. It was operated for a period of time by the AC Club group and then resold, remodeled, and reopened as the current bar, “Brown Sugar”.


The name “Ziggy’s” was used again for a while for a club in the center of the Broadway Complex Building, with King of Diamonds on one side on Real Street and Titanic on the opposite side on Field’s Avenue. Titanic was renamed “Love Boat” and again later renamed “Cottontails”. Cottontails has been sold but operating under the same name.


Do you recall the “Cozy Cleopatra Club”? It was sold to the AC Club group and renamed, if memory serves me correctly, “Ziggy’s” and then “After Dark”. Once the Voodoo Club next to the Private Dancer Club I changed ownership last year, the club ware renamed from “After Dark” to “Voodoo” where it operates today, next to the Y bar.


What was the previous name of Rhapsody, the sister club of Labamba? It was “Panama Jack’s”.


What was previously at the site where Kokomo’s now stands? It was a park where they had Foxy Boxing. I remember video-taping some of the foxy boxing.


The Dirty Duck bar is a great little club. It was previously “Dolphin Street Bar”. Before that, it was the “Happy Hooker”. You won’t see any future bar names like “Happy Hooker” in AC.


What was the previous name of Bananitas? It was “Lash”. I pulled more than a few chicks out of this club. A lot of the girls from Archie’s and Private Dancer I went to work at Lash.


What was the previous name of Angels? It was “Papillion”. Before Papillion, what? At least the second floor of the building was part of the old “Birds of Paradise” Club. It’s not clear just how much of the building was occupied by Birds of Paradise.


I know most of my friends have never been to Shanno’s, much less the bar there before, “Octopussy”.


How about Blue Fox? What was the name before? It was “Temptations”. One shiny silver dollar goes in your pocket if you know the name before “Temptations”. It was “Giant”.


Who remembers when the Stinger Bar was on Field’s Avenue? I sure do. I popped my one and only cherry girl out of that club. Then she wanted to get married and make babies. Since she was only sixteen at the time (She told me she was eighteen and I believed her - I’m still amazed that an AC club chick would lie.), and I was cut, that didn’t happen.


Who went to the two bars that were between King of Diamonds and the Marine Bar? If you did, you won’t admit it. I’ve never met anyone who admits to have been to one of those clubs. I know you’re racking your brain right now trying to remember their names. They were the “Duke of York” and “Wontok”. Both these places have re-established themselves on Blow Road.


I bet not many people can remember when the Valentine’s Club was operated as “Dreams”. If memory serves me correctly, Dreams closed in late 1996 or early 1997, and reopened as Valentine’s. Valentine’s is closed now. It’s being remodeled and will re-open as “Cambodia” (See below).


How many folks went into the Sports bar that predated “Private Dancer II”? After it closed, it was remodeled, and reopened as “Exotica”. Exotica is now closed, undergoing remodeling again.


What was the previous name of Treasure Island? It was “Cockatoos”. You are really good if you can recall the name before Cockatoos. It was “Grandeur”.


I think very few of my friends will remember the name of the club where Champagne now stands. It was “Cinderella”. Champagne BTW recently celebrated its fifth anniversary.


What was the name of the restaurant that occupied the building where the clubs G-Spot and Ayer’s Rock are currently located? It was “Thunderstruck”. It changed hands roughly two years ago. G-Spot was originally “Bubbles”. The restaurant side of the building just reopened a few months ago as “Ayer’s Rock”. What’s an “Ayer’s Rock”? Where is it? Answers will be in the next newsletter.


And lastly, I bet ninety-nine out of a hundred people will say the Blue Nile Club was the first one on that location. They’re wrong. For two-three weeks, a club on that site conducted business as “Heavenly Bodies”.


Not many clubs have survived longer than the last six years without a name change. Some that have are:


Blackjack Club Top Hat Y bar The Club

Labamba Road House Misty’s Welcome Inn

Cleopatra’s Fantastic DMZ Midnight Rodeo