Construction has finally begun on a luxury tower at Washington and LaGrange streets. Once it's completed, how long do you think Centerfolds and the Glass Slipper - the Combat Zone's last two strip clubs - can hold out before their buildings are torn down for a high rise?
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Thank god for the golden
By The Real
Sun, 12/04/2011 - 10:27am
Thank god for the golden banana and hurricane bettys.
Faster than you can say N.I.M.B.Y.
By anon²
Sun, 12/04/2011 - 11:28am
^
Your username
By anon²
Sun, 12/04/2011 - 1:22pm
I have been using this name since before you. Please use a different name. Thank you.
How to make sure nobody else ever uses the name
By adamg
Sun, 12/04/2011 - 1:41pm
Unfortunately, it's to register for an account, which will lock the name.
http://www.universalhub.com/user/register
Free, I don't do anything with the information (i.e., your user name and e-mail address, which the system needs to help verify you're a real person and not a spammer).
Welp
By OG-anon²
Sun, 12/04/2011 - 3:45pm
Been here for a few years, so I guess I'll have to register since our friendly UHub troll must be mad at me for making fun of how his mom and her basement is shitty, and decided to sockpuppet my handle.
Registration send Adam.
Anyways, Adam should easily be able to cross reference user IP's.
I'd hope he'll get around to banning the anon who keeps coming back and trolling the comments section repeatedly.
can i get a nickel please
By bostnkid
Sun, 12/04/2011 - 6:46pm
for everytime someone in the blogdom drops the ol "living in your mother's basement" line? id be rich. lets let that one die please, its sooo boston herald.
:p
By anon²
Sun, 12/04/2011 - 8:11pm
:p
I thought all of the clubs were gone!
By MassMouse
Sun, 12/04/2011 - 12:30pm
Ah, memories of being a child and having Mom tell us to close our eyes when we would drive through the area!!
My grandmother ...
By JohnAKeith
Sun, 12/04/2011 - 1:05pm
^ I never saw my grandmother speed except for the time we were caught on Washington Street back in the '70's and she freaked out. Who knew the Buick had such pickup?
Boston.com has a pictorial today - then and now in the Combat Zone:
http://www.boston.com/business/gallery/combat_zone...
Forum for former Combat Zone workers
By adamg
Sun, 12/04/2011 - 1:11pm
Combat Zone - scroll down a bit.
The best thread ever on UHub.
By NotWhitey
Sun, 12/04/2011 - 1:47pm
The best thread ever on UHub.
That is truly fantastic.
By JCK
Sun, 12/04/2011 - 4:50pm
That is truly fantastic.
Another once thriving business scene..
By Brian Riccio
Sun, 12/04/2011 - 1:32pm
ruined by the internet!
Convention Business?
By SwirlyGrrl
Sun, 12/04/2011 - 4:09pm
Something about the proximity of those clubs to a major hotel area for out-of-town business people and conventioneers says that they will remain, and remain profitable.
What happens on the road ...
yeah, something about that
By tenfortyseven
Sun, 12/04/2011 - 5:39pm
yeah, something about that
Bike by at closing time
By SwirlyGrrl
Sun, 12/04/2011 - 8:37pm
You might just find some team-switching luxury hotel expense account action.
But, hey, if craigslist is working okay for you already, no need.
Hope they don't tear those buildings down
By deselby
Sun, 12/04/2011 - 1:48pm
Those are nice Boston brick buildings.
At least the HH Richardson on the corner is safe . . . I hope.
The HH Richardson building
By Ron Newman
Mon, 12/05/2011 - 7:54am
is called the Hayden Building, and its upper floors are being turned into apartments. It is owned by Historic Boston Inc. and is a protected landmark.
The buildings should survive
By HenryAlan
Sun, 12/04/2011 - 4:01pm
The parking lot next to and behind the Glass Slipper is slated for a tower. You can't place another tower directly next to it. Also, the buildings are in good shape, so there won't be an eminent domain taking for blight, as happened with some of he other strip club locations (most famously the Naked I).
Didn't the city arrange for Glass Slipper to move ...
By Ron Newman
Sun, 12/04/2011 - 6:22pm
... across the street to their current location, when Kensington tore down their old building along with the Gaiety Theatre next door?
Moving the Glass Slipper
By HenryAlan
Sun, 12/04/2011 - 6:53pm
Ron,
I'm not sure whether the city played a role, but you're right that the Glass Slipper was originally in one of the buildings demolished for the Kensington. That building was in terrible condition, and justifiably condemned.
Almost went into the Glass Slipper once.
By Boston_res
Sun, 12/04/2011 - 8:28pm
When I first moved to the area, I thought it said "glass shop". HEY! I was reading the banner from far away and it was windy. Almost walked all the way down the street and had a look inside. Decided to go to work instead and look it up on the Internet...that sure did make things interesting for the IT guys...
Went to the Carib once
By anon
Sun, 12/04/2011 - 9:15pm
Similar to the Slipper. It was on Tremont, I think where the Subway is now.
Long bar and the ladies really just danced right behind it. In very close proximity. One gal had her back to us and bent over an looked at my brother and I as we drank beers at the bar.
She said, "You've seen it, now give me a buck."
My brother replied, "Here's two, don't show it to me again."
Good times.
The current Glass Slipper building was in equally bad shape then
By Ron Newman
Sun, 12/04/2011 - 10:00pm
It had been abandoned and empty for many years before it was fixed up for the Glass Slipper to move into.
do some research
By anon
Wed, 12/28/2011 - 8:59am
Yes, the city had a lot do with it.
"the buildings are in good
By anon
Mon, 12/05/2011 - 3:28pm
"the buildings are in good shape, so there won't be an eminent domain taking for blight"
I thought government officials can declare a building or area blighted without regard to its actual condition, just so they have an excuse to tear it down.
Glass Slipper before the Licensing Board tomorrow
By adamg
Mon, 12/05/2011 - 7:42am
"Physical contact between patron and dancer in violation" on 10/27.
I will, of course, be there.
Oh please, oh please
By Kaz
Mon, 12/05/2011 - 10:24am
You gotta let us know if the phrase "no sex in the champagne room" is spoken.
Heh, will do!
By adamg
Mon, 12/05/2011 - 10:29am
To their credit, neither club gets hauled before the licensing board very often, certainly not like a certain venu in the Theater District that you can often hear a rumor or two about.
Licensing board reminds strip club it's a strip club, not a lap-dance club, 6/8/10.
For Eeka's Sake!
By anon
Mon, 12/05/2011 - 10:40am
Do get a picture of The Licensing Board Diva Extraordinare - she might even pay if you can get a video of her demonstrating the violation!
you know, in other citys and
By anon
Mon, 12/05/2011 - 10:55am
you know, in other citys and states, strip clubs arent the pits of hell Mass makes them out to be. Most citys in the US have them, and a good number of 'upscale' places business men take clients to for lunch. Its just around here we are made to feel they are bad and dirty.
its our puritanical
By cybah
Mon, 12/05/2011 - 11:14am
its our puritanical ways.
Although I'm not sure if I'd want to 'eat out' at a strip club. (Sorry I had to say that LOL)
Not always so Puritanical
By anon
Mon, 12/05/2011 - 4:47pm
In the 70s, strip clubs and the Combat Zone were taken as a matter of course. Nobody made much of a big deal about it. Then-mayor Kevin White even held a ribbon cutting ceremony making the Combat Zone "Boston's Official Red Light District". Those were more open minded times. It was the coming of the 80s and the Reagan era that swung things in the other direction from which they've never quite returned.
Luxury!
By anon
Mon, 12/05/2011 - 6:42pm
Of course not just any condominiums - rather, LUXURY condominiums!
Why does every freakin' condo in this city, no matter how horrific the area, have to be a LUXURY condo?!
I'm sure they'll be very luxurious - filled with partying students and/or Eurotrash.
More than a condo...More than luxurious...More than a condo that's luxurious: a Luxury Condo!