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Yeah, Yeah. That if I wanted to go into a nightclub like this, I had to get into a line a block away down there, but the Lions have shrunk away to nothing. And Topless is finally on its way out. Yeah. Always consider

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yourself might we don't want to have. Mhm. Well, this is quite a change from the days when you had Topless dancers up on the bar by the cash register. Why did you give up Topless at the peppermint tree? Pretty much my feeling is that the Topless

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craze as it were is starting to diminish. I I think we probably over flooded the market with Topless and so we're going right back into a legitimate type operation, basically the way it was when we first started. That's with acts, you've totally got rid of all

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the girls. What kind of acts do you hope to bring in now? We're going to enter dispersed with name ax. Some small bigger time name max and dance fans. I primarily, it's gonna be a fun place again to a place where you can come and dance

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and enjoy yourself in between this. We'll try to book in relatively larger name max, mostly entertainment, just good rock and roll, good acts, anything that's enjoyable just as a guest. How many millions of dollars do you think North Beach nightclubs together? Made off the topless, Crazy.

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Oh boy. That would be a tough figure. There are about 40 nightclubs in this area and there's probably over a billion dollars really. If you start counting it up. Uh, the akin businesses to all the parking lots around here made money. Everybody made money, newspaper stands,

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shoe shine stands, everybody made money on the street. We've been going for 3.5, 4 years. A lot of the larger clubs grossed over a million dollars a year. As the topless fat fades business is hurting all over North Beach garages like this, which used to stay

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full every night, parking spaces are going begging and you have to feel sorry for the garage is because they don't have any other act to offer. This is Jim Harwood on special assignment for eyewitness news.