Back in the pre pandemic 1900's, guys used to offer up dollar bills to ladies in bars.

I am wondering if inflation has made them offer Five Doller bills ,at this point?

Shirley the one dollar bills can not be the standard all these later.

Has anyone here heard what goes on now days?

Anybody I know wouldn't have a clue.

I did hear that hard liquor at the bars is close to $8.00 a glass now. Depending on the establishment, of course.

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Originally posted by bendable:
Back in the pre pandemic 1900's, guys used to offer up dollar bills to ladies in bars.

I am wondering if inflation has made them offer Five Doller bills ,at this point?

Shirley the one dollar bills can not be the standard all these later.
Has anyone here heard what goes on now days?

Anybody I know wouldn't have a clue.

I did hear that hard liquor at the bars is close to $8.00 a glass now. Depending on the establishment, of course.

Back a couple decades ago it was a buck and $20 for a lap dance, a friend ytold me that lol

No idea on stripper pricing. Anecdotally, every now and then I'll see an article that online porn negatively affected stripper income.

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Originally posted by bendable:
I did hear that hard liquor at the bars is close to $8.00 a glass now. Depending on the establishment, of course.

Mixed drinks are approx $12 to $15 for "well liquor" (aka the bar's basic booze) and $15 to $25 for top shelf liquor.

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Originally posted by tatortodd:
No idea on stripper pricing

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Originally posted by bendable:
I did hear that hard liquor at the bars is close to $8.00 a glass now. Depending on the establishment, of course.

Mixed drinks are approx $12 to $15 for "well liquor" (aka the bar's basic booze) and $15 to $25 for top shelf liquor.

OJ was 8 bucks last I heard and soda pretty much the same.

Yet another reason I never go to bars anymore! I can get falling-down drunk for $10.00 from my local ABC store with Smirnoff 100, which was my preferred poison when I quit drinking.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: bronicabill, December 23, 2024 11:59 AM

Don't call me Shirley.

I've regressed to tossing quarters at the strippers.

You know, I've thought about this subject too. I work w/ some guys who like to have business meetings at gentlemen's clubs (they can write them off as business expenses), so I'm no stranger to them.

Although a dollar is worth about half as much as it was 30 years ago, for the most part in TX, a tip is still commonly as little as $1, and a standard lap dance is still $20. YMMV depending on the club & dancer. If a dancer is insulted by a $1 tip, she can decline it. At some places/some dancers, the price of dances has crept up to $25 or $30.

What's already a sad line of work is further humbled by its inability to keep up w/ inflation, b/c the going rate for a lap dance should be $40. I guess you could say that about a lot of jobs though. 30 years ago, an entry-level, unskilled labor position started around $6-7/hr. Now it's only around $9-10.

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Originally posted by Edmond:
I've regressed to tossing quarters at the strippers.

"Make it rain," tosses bundles of dollars.

"Make it hail," tosses handfuls of quarters.

That time I went to "The Office" and threw thousands of dollars, got beat up and tossed like a bag of laundry out into the parking lot.




Who knew Monopoly Money set strippers off?

They do not accept rolls of quarters.

This is something I just happen to know.

Seems like patrons should be able to purchase $4.00 coupons at the door,
Which could be given to the dancers instead of one dollar bills,
Then
The gals could turn those in for the real thing.

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Originally posted by tatortodd:
Anecdotally, every now and then I'll see an article that online porn negatively affected stripper income.

I believe it works the other way around. They do porn to get famous and make obscene amounts of money stripping. No pun intended.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
They do not accept rolls of quarters.

This is something I just happen to know.

Don't swipe your credit card either.

Reminds me of a story from a previous lifetime. A buddy of mine had a watch this moment during a trip to a local gentlemen's club. After soaking a quarter in a glass of ice for a while, he dropped it into a dancer's g-string. Her reaction was predictable as was our unceremonious ejection from the establishment. Ah, good times.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
They do not accept rolls of quarters.

This is something I just happen to know.

Definitely not if you throw them

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Originally posted by Edmond:
I've regressed to tossing quarters at the strippers.

A guy I used to work with got divorced and starting going down to Portland on the weekends to go to the strip clubs there. Like an American version of Thailand or something. Anyway, he told me he saw a stripper who picked up quarters off the stage without using her hands. Or her feet. Or her teeth, or elbows, or anything else you could think of that would make sense.

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Originally posted by bendable:
Seems like patrons should be able to purchase $4.00 coupons at the door,
Which could be given to the dancers instead of one dollar bills,
Then
The gals could turn those in for the real thing.

What do we know about other places that issue funny money? E.g., casinos, Disneyland/world, Dave & Busters, etc?

Customers end up w/ currency that can't be used elsewhere, and the employees/dancers have to pay an exchange fee to cash in their coupons. I know of one club that does this. They charge the dancers 10% to cash in their funny money.