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Originally Posted by GA Russell
Thanks, Andrew. But I'm not sure that that is right about the strip clubs. Ten years ago I lived in rural Winder, Georgia, and a fellow wanted to open up a nudie bar, and they wouldn't let him.
I don't recall the legal arguments. Perhaps they wouldn't grant him a liquor license, but I don't think that was it. I just don't remember.
PS - The more I think about it, the more I think that the liquor license was the deal. I have a vague recollection that he opened up with nude girls serving soft drinks and nobody wanted to go, so after a few weeks he closed.
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I imagine it was the liquor license.
In the town I grew up in, there were similar issues with someone wanting to open a strip club. Their biggest hurdle was the liquor license. They wanted to serve alcohol AND be full-nude. They settled for just topless and booze, but later got busted (several times) for "secretly" having some all-nude shows. That, and selling porn on the property.
The city had its own ordinances regarding SoB's along with the ones defined by the state laws. My mom owned an adult video store for several years, and she was constantly under scrutiny from the city council and such for being "on the border" with her store. The city has some regulation in place that states that a business can't have more than a certain % of its floor space dedicated to the sales of adult materials. If it is any greater than the limit, then it would need to be moved to a different zone. The state of Nevada has given all cities authority on location of SoB's, and that was the compromise that the city made in regards to those types of establishments.