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General Category => Politics and academic/media queries => Topic started by: JessicaWriter on 17 January 2017, 02:57:32 pm

Title: Researching old SoHo hostess bars/ 'clip joints'
Post by: JessicaWriter on 17 January 2017, 02:57:32 pm
Hello

These days I'm a freelance journalist, but back in 2006 when I was still a student I used to work in a SoHo 'hostess bar' (the taste of cheap champagne mixed with ginger ale still haunts me).

I'm researching a feature on the history of these seemingly-forgotten bars and am looking to speak to women who worked in them and are happy to share their memories. The feature will hopefully be a mixture of my own first-person experience and interviews with other women.

If anyone had any experience of these places in the 90s/ early 00s and would like to talk about it, or has any pointers for me, my email address is jessica.b.writer@gmail.com.

Thanks a lot for letting me post here!
Title: Re: Researching old SoHo hostess bars/ 'clip joints'
Post by: nachos on 30 January 2017, 08:39:56 pm
Hey hun. I have worked in a few clip joints in my time lol. On Great Windmill st and Brewer st. From around 1997-2000 :)
Title: Re: Researching old SoHo hostess bars/ 'clip joints'
Post by: ladyofthemansion on 30 January 2017, 10:26:31 pm
I worked in the Capricorn at age of 25. Still remember the taste of the horrible champagne. The DJ Tim was a total prick. The two bosses weren't that nice either.
Title: Re: Researching old SoHo hostess bars/ 'clip joints'
Post by: SophieinSurrey on 31 January 2017, 06:14:17 pm
I did the Capricorn club, too, as well as the Windmill and Astral Club. A friend also did the Stork club.
Title: Re: Researching old SoHo hostess bars/ 'clip joints'
Post by: JessicaWriter on 31 January 2017, 11:31:50 pm
Ahhhh amazing! I didn't realise The Windmill was a clip joint too, thought it was just a regular strip club ? had a friend who worked there for a short while. It's crazy how much Soho has changed in ten years.

If any of you are up for speaking to me ? I can keep you anonymous ? please send me an email on jessica.b.writer@gmail.com! Unless we can message each other on here? I haven't work out how!