THE PI JOE NEWSLETTER
AUGUST 2002 # 01
01 – 10 AUGUST


WILD-ASS BAR-HOPPING PARTY!

On Friday night, 02 August 2002, I participated in the most memorable bar-hop I’ve ever had the occasion to join, in the PI or anywhere else. You weren’t here of course, so you missed ONE HELL OF A PARTY. This mad-cap bar-hop was hosted by [Progman] and [Epimetheus] from Los Angeles. Accompanying [Progman] was one truly luscious and entertaining Y Bar lady. Escorting and molesting [Epimetheus] were four additional Y Bar beauties.

As happenstance would have it, it was also [Progman]’s fortieth birthday. It wasn’t planned that way, but this party turned out to be a worthy birthday bash for just about anyone. This one was worth writing home to Momma about!

Accompanying [Progman]’s and [Epimetheus]’s entourage were nine other friends, including yours truly, for a total of sixteen party animals.

The party spontaneously sprung to life early in the evening in the Volcano Club. Once the fire had been ignited, the party took on a life of its own. Simple dancing on the sidelines metamorphosed into bump and grinds among the participants on the two hosts, which ultimately lead to tequila body shots by guys on girls, girls on guys and girls on girls. I didn’t see (I wasn’t looking very hard either) for any guys on guys body shots.

A novelty event in the Volcano Club was a brief appearance by a midget. She couldn’t have been more than three feet tall. My first thought was if I could bar fine her.

After an hour or two of sheer mania in Volcano, the party moved to the G-Spot Club. G-Spot was having a topless dance contest of sorts. After a few more rounds of tequila body shots on damn near everybody, including a tequila body shot performed on the dick of one individual (also known as a blow job), dancing on the tables and chairs, and one chick getting screwed in the CR, the Y Bar girls jumped on the stage where they instantly mesmerized the club. All the girls immediately went topless. One young lady stripped down to the buff, where she had her pussy kissed on stage.

Another party-dude, with his own bottle of tequila, joined the melee and promptly began pouring free tequila shots for anyone who was game and could hold onto the table long enough to gulp down the shot. Except that some of the guys were a little shy, I believe we would have witnessed an orgy right there in the G-Spot Club. I was certainly game, though the Brown Bunny said she would leave (the country) if I started taking my clothes off.

After an hour or so in the G-Spot Club, BB, another couple, and yours truly moved to a quieter club to cool down before heading home. I was told the party moved to Nero’s where it carried on for quite a while before finally burning out.

I wished I had taken my video camera. This party was not planned and no one had made any special arrangements to “get wild” that night. Everyone had gone out more or less in small groups, and via cell phones, got word to head to the Volcano Club. I didn’t get any video, but some folks took photos. I have some of the pictures. They will follow in three messages, four photos per message. The first message will come today after this newsletter. The second with photos will arrive tomorrow, and the last message with the pics the day after.

Words can not explain the intensity and excitement of this bar-hop. I’m sure it will be a long time before I see or participate in another bar hopping event like this one.


LOCAL CELL PHONES AND INTERNET EMAIL

For those of you who have cell phones here in the PI that may not know, you can use it to send regular email to any internet email address.

Below are instructions on how to set up your email account on a Nokia 3310 cell phone with a Smart Sim Card. I assume the user is skilled in using the basic functions of the cell phone. If you’re using a different cell phone or a Globe Sim card, I recommend you consult the manual that came with it.

1. Register your username and password

a. Type the following in a text message and send to “200”

Reg username password (one space between each word)

where username may contain the letters A-Z, the numerals 0-9 and the characters “_” and “_.” (underscore and underscore period)

The password may contain any combination of the above letters, numerals and characters. The password is only used when you log on the smart com web site to check your email (webmail).

The website to check your cell phone email is:
www.smart.com.ph


2. To send email using your cell phone:

a. Start a text message and FIRST enter the email address
you are sending the message to. Enter a space and then
enter your message. When finished, send to “200”

Your cell phone email address is:
username@my.smart.com.ph

3. Additional Information:

a. For help with any commands, type
“help” and send to “200”
b. For help with the mail commands, type
“mailhelp” and send to “200”.
c. For help with the register command, type
“help reg” and send to “200”.
4. For advanced mail features, type
“mailhelp advance” and send to “200”

Note 1: Sending internet email messages from your cell phone isn’t free. (Did you really expect it to be?) I have been told but haven’t verified it, that each email message you originate or reply to cost fifteen pesos. In addition, to receive email from the Smart Com server to your cell phone, you have to send a text message “Read” to 200, which cost one peso. It is a convenient method of sending and receiving emergency internet email messages however.

Note 2: You can set up your cell phone to “pop down” messages from other email accounts. Use the “mailhelp advance” command to see how to do this. I don’t recommend you attempt to pop mail down from other regular internet email accounts but it is possible to do so.


EMAIL ATTACHMENTS

Folks, I’m popping down my mail from Yahoo using dial-up from the apartment. It takes thirty minutes or longer to download messages with large attachments. Therefore I have blocked all messages that are larger than 100K in size. Do not send messages to me with any attachments larger than 100k. I will not receive them.


SPEND MORE MONEY IN AC

One thing I’ve observed in the last month, you guys that are coming down here for ten days or two weeks or so, ain’t spending enough money. Those of us living here are doing our part. We’re hunting down all the rumors floating around, keeping track of changes in and around Field’s Avenue and providing you with all that info.

Do your part. Come down here, get wild, and spend, spend, spend!!! [Progman] and [Epimetheus] certainly did the town justice with the huge amount of pesos they threw around on their wild bar hopping party. Try your best to emulate these guys when you arrive in AC.

Bring an extra thousand bucks or so with you. Don’t limit yourself to one chick. Bar fine three or four of them, take them all bar hopping, bring them back to your hotel and feed all of them a late dinner. We don’t care if you screw all of them or not but keep them all overnight and feed them breakfast and lunch the next day before you send them back to the bar. Be sure to buy them a present and tip them well as they depart your AO. They will always fondly remember you.

Go in the clubs and ring the bells. Call three or four of the waitresses over and buy all of them a drink. Do that for all the waitresses and then all the dancers. You will get personal attention from all of the girls, they will appreciate it, and you will find one chick that really likes you. She will go home with you and screw you through the mattress. I guarantee it. But don’t forget to take along a couple of her friends to help you undress and take a shower. The new rule is that you have to bar fine a minimum of three chicks a night.

Hit ten clubs a night. Buy any chick a drink that even appears to be remotely interested in you. Buy her friends drinks too. Hell, buy drinks for the girls that hate you.

New rule number 2: You have to buy all cherry girls in each club at least one drink. Bonus, you get to check to see if they are real cherry girls.

Spend, spend, spend like there’s no tomorrow. I came down here in September 1997 from Korea and dropped four thousand bucks in 19 days. It was wonderful! I didn’t fly back to Korea in a plane, I floated!

Throw money around like you just hit the Lotto. The girls will love you and be VERY appreciative. If you don’t want the clubs on Field’s Avenue to close, get down here and pretend you’re a drunken sailor on leave.

Do your part. You owe it to yourself and those of us that live here. Help support and keep the clubs open in AC. Leave enough money for the chicks to buy the newer and more expensive cell phones to call you on when you return home. Make sure they’re flush with cash when you head for the airport. When you do so, sometimes they give us locals free pussy. We are certainly appreciative.

Above all, you will leave on cloud nine. You will depart as the stud of Field’s Avenue. It’s better than confession and last longer too. We locals will talk about you for weeks and write you up in the annals of AC. So remember, bring lots of cash, and spend, spend, spend!!!


HARRY THE HORSE’S MONTHLY ARTICLE

Harry the Horse’s August 2002 issue is out. I recommend you go to the web site: www.go2phil.com and read his article every month. You can access his articles without joining the web site. “Joining the website” means you have to pay to access certain areas of the information on their board.

Some of the relevant information he discusses for August 2002 are: The murder of Steve Davis in Manila, the previous owner/manager of Jade Cool in AC; The purchase of the Las Vegas Hotel by a Japanese individual; The sale and future of Angeles Broadway Complex (Cottontails Club); Staggers Bar for sale; The disappearance of Robbie Williams, owner of Bonanza Hotel (with the cash?); The sale of the Swagman Hotel in AC; Incidents with the manager and among Filipino bouncers and foreign customers in the Silk Stocking Club, including a first-hand account; New office to provide medical insurance for military retirees under Tri-Care, New developments in the Blue Nile Club, which includes a “members-only” club and private area; and Mike Gimm, who allegedly absconded with a few folks’ hard-earned cash.


ANOTHER BITCH FROM HELL

I haven’t told an AC horror story in quite a while, so here’s a new one. I recently had a conversation with a fellow in DM Residente Apartments. He comes up from Puerto Galera sometimes to get away from his ex-wife. They had a baby a couple of years ago. He is taking care of the baby in his home at Puerto Galera. The ex-wife is running around, as most Filipino bar girls with some cash are wont to do. He wants to get the baby an American passport and take the child to the States, but the wife won’t sign the appropriate paperwork.

He told me that a while back, the ex-wife claimed she had a lump in one of her breast and needed it removed. He gave her $1000 U.S. only to find out later it was a bullshit story, and that she used the money for breast augmentation surgery; in other words, to enlarge her boobs. (This is the second time I’ve heard of a chick here using this story).

He said the last time he came to AC, he told his yaya (baby sitter) to check-in with him regularly. The yaya never called, so he returned early to Puerto Galera. When he arrived home, he found that while he was in AC, the ex-wife had gone to his house in Puerto Galera, took his kid’s Pampers and formula for the kid she had had with a Filipino guy, and stole the yaya’s cell phone.

Sometimes these chicks down here are worst than a catfish on a earthworm, they won’t let go.


MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION

Henceforth I will refer to these reports as “newsletters” rather than “diary reports,” since I’m covering what’s happening in town rather than what I’m doing. (You don’t really expect me to do that, do you?)

The peso hit 51.6 the afternoon of Wednesday, 07 August and closed at 51.55. It hit 51.6 again Friday, 09 August and closed at 51.45 for the weekend.

The rain continues in the PI. If you’re coming soon, bring an umbrella.

I stand corrected. I said in the last diary report that the through-way between KOD and Cottontails was to be closed. Harry the Horse reported in his August 2002 article it will remain open. That’s good. That’s a good shortcut from Real Street to Field’s Avenue, plus you get to check out the chicks in both clubs as you pass through.

[Progman] and [Epimetheus] departed Sunday, 04 August 2002. We wish them a fond farewell and hope to see them again in the near future. They’re already planning their next trip.

I checked out the Sinsu internet Center. It’s on the left side of Teodoro Street, the first one past M-ville on the right side. Turn ride and walk down to a block before Norma’s money exchange office. It’s on the left side of the street. You can’t miss it. It has a big “Internet” sign over the shop. They have ADSL and it’s only 30 pesos per hour, with a 10 peso minimum. It was very fast. I will use this one in the future whenever I have the need.

Do not walk down Teodoro Street after Norma’s closes at 8 PM. It is sometimes dangerous, especially Saturday and Sunday nights. There have been several reports in the last two months or so of foreigners being assaulted on this street in and around Norma’s. All of the reports of assaults I’ve heard of occurred around midnight or after.

I don’t even recommend you go to Norma’s after dark. If you need to change money, go to J&B’s exchange on Field’s Avenue near M-ville, or the money exchange shop next to the Blackjack Bar across the street from the Orchid Inn Hotel. The Orchid Inn Hotel occasionally has sufficient funds to exchange. You can also change money at M-ville and Kokomo’s, though the rate might be slightly less than Norma’s or B&J’s.


Tony Grey

Tony is a writer living in La Union in the PI. For those of you with an intellectual tilt, attached is his poem, “Mo’s Annex (with poolside bar)”. His poem accurately describes what goes on daily in Angeles City.

Note his poem is copyrighted. Please do not distribute it without his permission. He can be contacted via email at: tonygrey59@yahoo.com. If you email him now, please give him time to respond. He’s currently surfing in Samar.


CLUB AND BAR INFORMATION

Lots of clubs are now having various kinds of contests among their girls, all of them usually resulting in the contestants getting topless. Occasionally one will get totally naked on the stage. Some of the contests involve body painting. Several bars have contests where the audience decides the winner by buying a necklace of flowers for his favorite chick. At the end of the contest, the chick with the most necklaces is declared the winner. In a couple of clubs I’ve been in, each necklace of flowers cost one hundred pesos. Your votes don’t come cheap in AC folks.

The Silk Stocking Club had a “Calendar Girl Of The Month” Contest, Tuesday, 06 August. I didn’t know about it until afterwards, but wouldn’t have gone anyway, considering the problems that club has been having.

Five or six clubs continue to be the busiest in town. They are the Blue Nile, Nero’s, Volcano, Brown Sugar, Champagne, and Dirty Duck. Volcano is currently my favorite. Dirty Duck is a close second. Volcano is number one for me because they have an abundance of the kinds of chicks I like. So ok, I can only look. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!

For the first time in a year or so, I went into Welcome Inn. They have some very small cuties there now. I noticed that ladies’ drinks are 120 pesos, as opposed to 125 in some of the larger clubs.

I also hit Bananitas. If you like loud music, this is the place to go. If not, take your ear-plugs when you visit this bar.

Check out the Flamingo (or Flaming-O) club by the pool in the Orchid Inn Hotel. It’s a nice club, the folks running it are very friendly, and they have some nice chicks there. They put on regular shows and contests which have proven to be entertaining and a lot of fun. It can get wild in this bar.

If you happen to be staying in the Orchid Inn, and you want to bar fine one of the Flamingo Club chicks, it’s only a one-minute walk to your room. The club also has several massage girls on call. The massage is given in your room at a cost of five hundred pesos I believe. You can charge the massage to your room. If you want to get funky with one of the massage chicks, you have to negotiate the deal with her.

Blue Nile had their one-year anniversary party, Saturday night, 03 August. I did not attend. It’s hard to believe that Blue Nile has been open a year already.

Some of you have taken exception with my reviews of the Blue Nile and Nero’s Clubs. I whole-heartedly agree with you, those two clubs by far have the best looking chicks in them, plus more of them than any other clubs in AC.

Nero’s had almost two-hundred chicks working the other night. I just don’t like the layout and format in those two clubs. Despite my lukewarm attraction for those two bars, I’ve been to them several times the last two weeks, accompanying friends that come to town who like to go there. They have some trophy chicks in these two establishments. If you take a fine one out for a night of enjoyment, be sure to take photos and send them to me! If you get drunk and end up with a coyote-ugly chick, don’t bother to send the pics to me. I can find enough ugly women on my own. (I’ve had lots of practice).

If you’re going to send me a large number of photos, send me a small message first letting me know they’re coming. I’ll go to an Internet Center and download them from there. The other option is to re-size the photos to about 30KB each and send three or four per message.


BARS WITH SHORT-TIME ROOMS

Several of the clubs have short-time rooms, The Foxy Club and Honey Ko’s on Perimeter Road, and Misty’s in the Tropicana Hotel, when it’s open. These places offer a discount for short-times. The time limit is usually one and a half to two hours. If you can’t get your rocks off in two hours, you better go find something else to do, like golfing or something.

The Dirty Duck also has a short-time room. As far as I know, they don’t have a discount.

I have been told but haven’t verified that the Welcome Inn Bar and the Blue Fox Club have them also. How do you verify they do? Is getting a “yes” answer sufficient or do you actually have to use one of the rooms? Using one of the rooms would be more fun, or so I’ve been told.

I’m sure there are other bars I don’t know about that have short-time rooms. All the bars on blow road have them of course, at a cost of five hundred pesos. An overnight bar fine on Blow Road is one thousand pesos, as is nearly every other club in and around Field’s Avenue.


See yall the next time around. Hope you enjoy the forthcoming photos.

PI Joe

THE PI JOE NEWSLETTER
AUGUST 2002 # 02
11 – 20 AUGUST

“The Public Has A Right To Know”


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


THE BUCKS ROLL INTO AC

If you want to get a general idea of how much money is sent to AC, just stand around Norma’s money exchange shop for fifteen minutes and watch the number of Filipinas that come to change dollars. I don’t know how the dollars are getting into the country, but the amount must be substantial. Just for curiosity’s sake, I’d like to know what volume of business Norma’s does every month. I think the figure would be astounding.


THE STEVE DAVIS MURDER

I reported briefly on this in a previous newsletter. Steve Davis was an owner of the Jade Cool Internet Center with establishments in Angeles City and Makati in Manila. He was shot to death on 17 July of this year. Attached is an article posted to the AC2 message board taken from the Philippine Star Newspaper, discussing the latest developments in the criminal investigation.


CLUB AND BAR INFORMATION

We went into Blue Nile and Nero’s the other night. There is no doubt what-so-ever in my mind, these are the bars to meet fine women. Take a newbie to one of these clubs. Sit him down at the bar and then walk him back to the CR. The number of women working in these two clubs is simply stunning. I guarantee you he has no chance. He’ll be absolutely sure he has landed in heaven. That’s one of the reasons we call it “Paradise” here.

We hit Champagne and Dirty Duck also. Champagne wasn’t busy but it was very early. A lot of the dancers seemed to be missing or hadn’t showed up for work yet.

Duck Dirty about 7:30 PM was packed. It’s an action bar. If you haven’t been here yet, you should try it. It opens at 2 PM so you have plenty of time every night to check it out. They close at 3 AM.

This past week Ayer’s Rock had a “Rock & Roll” night. Both Ayer’s Rock and the Kitten Club had an “Elvis” night, where some of the dancers were body-painted with images of Elvis, and an Elvis look-alike contest. The clubs are doing whatever they can to attract customers.

I was in Cottontails one night this week. The passageway between Cottontails and King of Diamonds is now closed and locked. I mistakenly reported in the last newsletter that it would remain open. I was wrong.

I was in the Club one night this week, talking to a dancer that worships the ground I walk on (Don’t I wish that was true!). The club is open from 5 PM until 5 AM. She told me the dancers work the entire shift, from 5 PM until 5 AM. She said the dance salary is 100 pesos a night. I didn’t verify her veracity, but if what she says is true, then the girls there are dancing for about 8.3 pesos an hour. And you working stiffs think you got it tough!

The Cambodia Club opened today, 20 August at 5 PM with a Dog House meeting until 7 PM. I went to Cambodia about 7:30 PM. It was completely packed. I will check out this new bar and report on it in the next newsletter.

I went to the Flamingo Club inside the Orchid Inn Hotel today also. The waitresses sport a very attractive outfit. Several of the waitresses are very “nice”. This bar opens at 2 PM, so you can do some “advance” scouting while you are recuperating from the previous night’s excursion.


NEW CONSTRUCTIONS IN/AROUND FIELD’S AVENUE

Photos of the construction of the building between KOD and the Marine Bar (Splash Club before), the new building at the site of the old TQ Club and the new Cambodia Club (previously Valentine’s) are attached (Pics NC01 – NC04). Woody’s has been torn down but no new construction has yet started on that site.

The building between KOK and the Marine Bar allegedly will house several new bars. The new “TQ” building will consist of a bar on the ground level and apartments on the second and third floors.

The face of the Field’s Avenue area is changing folks.


Miscellaneous Information

THE PESO-DOLLAR RATE

The peso hit 51.7 to the dollar twice in the last week or so. It closed over the weekend of 16 August at 51.65.

Early Monday, 18 August it hit 51.75 to the dollar. Norma’s ran out of money the afternoon of the 18th.

About 3:30 PM today, the 20th, the peso hit 51.90 to the dollar.

THE ORCHID INN HOTEL

Despite a “slow season” in AC right now, the Orchid Inn Hotel continues to have full or almost full occupancy. If you intend to stay in the Orchid on your next trip to AC, get your reservations in at least two months in advance. Three months is better, especially if you want to request a particular room.


That’s it for this issue. See yall next time.

PI Joe

THE PI JOE NEWSLETTER
AUGUST 2002 # 03
21 - 31 AUGUST

“The Public Has A Right To Know”


SEPTEMBER 2002 ISSUE OF THE MARGARITA STATION NEWSLETTER

It’s an excellent issue containing a wealth of information about the clubs and just about everything else that’s happened around Field’s Avenue in the last couple of weeks or so. As a result of his excellent coverage of the clubs and events here in Paradise, this newsletter will be brief.


AYER’S ROCK

Here are the answers for Ayer’s Rock. It’s a huge piece of stone sitting out in the middle of nowhere, about four-five hours from Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, one of the seven states of Australia. The Aborigines call it “Uluru”. The rock is 350 meters high and 2-3 kilometers wide. If you’re really interested, you can go to several web sites that cover Ayer’s Rock extensively. Do a search on “Ayer’s Rock” or “Uluru”.


CLUB AND BAR INFORMATION

As reported in the last newsletter, the Cambodia Club opened Tuesday, August 20, 2002. It’s a fairly small club with two floors. The way the club is designed, there’s not much space to move around inside. As you enter the club, down several steps, the dance stage is on the left with sofa-type seats and tables on the right. The walkway is only three or four feet wide. Less than half of the dancers are on the first floor. You can partially see the dancers on the 2nd floor, but you have to look almost straight-up.

The girls on the second floor dance against one wall. The opposite wall has a railing with sofa-type seals. Four feet or so in front of the sofa seats are stools, immediately in front of the railing. The dancers are ten to fifteen feet away from the sofa seats and stools. You can’t talk to them while they’re dancing.

The walkway on the second floor between the sofa seats and stools at the railing is only about three feet. If you sit in the sofa seats and there are people sitting on the stools in front of you, you can’t see all the dancers.

When I went there, we first sat downstairs and then moved upstairs. The problem upstairs is that there’s no where for the waitresses to stand where they don’t block the view of the stage. Consequently they stand in the narrow three-foot walkway, blocking the view of stage also. You also can not clearly see the dancers on the 1st floor from upstairs.

If you have a “date”, the upstairs section is not conducive to just sitting and observing the dancers. However if you’re hunting, it’s very cozy because you, the waitresses and the dancers when they leave the stage are thrown together in a very narrow space. It’s very easy to meet and talk to the girls for a few minutes without having to call them off the stage.

I mentioned last time that Blue Nile and Nero’s are the places to meet “fine” women. Volcano doesn’t have the sheer numbers of girls compared to Blue Nile and Nero’s, but it’s right up with them in “good looking” women.

Several clubs around town continue to have “shows”. The Flamingo had a “lingerie” night while the Kitten Club had another dance contest with some of the chicks all “doo-dahed” up with body paint. Ayer’s Rock has had several shows also.

Both Silk Stocking and Bananitas are now closed. There is a sign on Silk Stocking, “Closed for Renovation”. There is a rumor floating around why Bananitas is closed. I won’t mention it here since I can’t confirm it.

The Blue K Expat Sports Pub and restaurant has moved from their previous location near the Clarkton Hotel to inside the Clark Airport City Terminal (AKA The Domino’s Pizza Building) across from Checkpoint on Field’s Avenue. Their first anniversary party and opening of the club at the new location is schedule for Monday, 2 September.


MORE CELL PHONE INFO OR HANDY HINTS FOR KLUTZES

This information is for those of you that use the local cell phones here in AC. Once again, the info provided is for a Smart Sim Card.

You can turn on the “Pin Code” feature and add a number, the “Pin Code” itself, much like a password, which has to be entered each time the phone is turned on. This feature is intended to protect against unauthorized use of your phone.

You get three chances to enter the correct Pin Code. What happens if you can’t remember it, or really screw up and enter the incorrect number three times in a row? Oh, you say you would never mess up that badly? Well, try it after eight or nine beers.

Once you accomplish the inevitable and punch in the wrong Pin Code three times in a row, your Sim card is “locked”. I mean, you and the rest of the world are prevented from using your cell phone with that Sim card. When you try to use your phone after the third time you’ve entered the wrong Pin Code, you will be prompted for a “PUK” code.

The “PUK” code is appropriately named, for that’s just what I felt like doing after I realized my phone was “dead”. How many of you know your “PUK” code? I thought so. Don’t try to guess the “PUK” code. You will never do it, but have no fear, the solution is here!

Lay your hands on another phone and call the Smart Customer Service Number at *888 (star888). Tell the operator what happened, be humble and apologetic and maybe you won’t hear them laughing in the background at you like they did to me this morning.

They will ask you for your cell phone number, the approximate load* on it when you screwed up and what year the phone was activated. In about a minute the operator will give you your “PUK” code. Write the number down.

Punch in the “PUK” code, correctly. If you don’t, your cell phone will explode and burn to ashes right in front of your eyes. Be careful, you know how helpless you are without it.

Once you have entered the “PUK” code, you will be prompted for a new Pin Code. Enter whatever number you want and you’re done. You might want to write down your Pin Code somewhere too.

If you don’t know what a “load” is, you don’t need a cell phone. Sell it and spend the money on a chick.


MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION

REAL AC OLD-TIMERS

How can you tell a real, honest-to-goodness AC old-timer?
He’s the guy who knows all the trike drivers. He’s personal friends with the street vendors and remembers the first name of every little “chewing-gum” kid on the street.

THE PREVIOUS WALK DOWN MEMORY LANE

In the previous newsletter, I challenged you to recall the past names of some of the clubs in and around Field’s Avenue. I left out Confetti’s. Can you remember the name before Confetti’s? While we’re at it, and even though the Golden Gate Club has been closed for a year or so, what was the previous club’s name on that site? The answers are at the end of this newsletter.

I think we also missed one on the old Private I Dancer. I believe it was called “Mirage” for a while before the name became “After Dark”. If you know for sure, please confirm for me.

Illusions should have been on the list of clubs that hasn’t had a name change in the last six years or so.

THE PESO-DOLLAR RATE

The peso closed at 52.15 on Friday, the 23rd and remained at that rate all weekend long at Norma’s. It hit 52.25 at Norma’s Monday morning, 26 August 2002 for a couple of hours, dropping somewhat after that. By Tuesday afternoon, 27 August, it was down to 51.95. By Friday afternoon, it closed at Norma’s at 51.75.

1000-PESO PHONE CARDS

The B&J money exchange shop on the left side of Field’s Avenue just before you get to Margarita Station has the 1000-peso phone cards. At this time this is the only shop I know of on Field’s Avenue that carries the cards. The cost is 940 pesos and you get 250 free text messages. The load on these cards, like the others, is good for two months. These cards are the best deal on any of the phone cards, and are advantageous if you make regular long distance calls.

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The previous name of Confetti’s was “Night Out”. “Halloween” was the bar at the site of the old Golden Gate Club.


That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!


Joe