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Old Posted Jun 30, 2020, 12:11 AM
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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality View Post
I'm a bit surprised the term "taxi dancer" was still in the L. A. Times' lexicon in the 1969. I always thought taxi dancers were from a much earlier era like the 1920s and 1930s.
I always thought the same, e_r - imagine my surprise when I found out that taxi dancing clubs still exist in downtown to this day!

Here are a few I know about:

4th Street, near the corner of Broadway:


https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0496...2!8i6656?hl=en

No markings on this one, but it is a taxi dancing club. I know because I wandered in one night after having drinks at the Golden Gopher. 8th Street, by Olive:


https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0449...4!8i8192?hl=en

Another place I wandered into just to see what it was. Pay lots of money to sit and talk to girls. Are you kidding me? I took a pass on that adventure. Broadway between 12th and Pico:


https://www.google.com/maps/place/90...4d-118.2581668

Club Galaxy at Olive and 9th (appears to be gone in most recent Google view):

https://www.google.com/maps/place/90...4d-118.2581668

I don't really understand the appeal of these places. I mean, sure, if you're on shore leave during WWII, and only have the weekend, haven't seen a girl in months, and you want to dance with a pretty girl, I get it.

By why would anyone go to such a place now?
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