Comments on: Sweet City Signs

By: Martha

Martha — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:12:05 +0000

So glad you posted this:) I’ve been in DC for 7 years and get a little jealous of other cities’ excellent seedy strip bar signs when we travel. It’s great to read the posts of folks who’ve patronized this establishment over the years.

By: Five K

Five K — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:17:37 +0000

It is my understanding that this business is just waiting to sell to someone who is ready to develop the entire block. There is the expectation that a large building will go in that incorporates the existing architecture.

By: Jaynuze

Jaynuze — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:41:38 +0000

A friend brought me there in 1998 for what I thought was a bar … Sully has it right. His comment really made me laugh … dirty glassware, Hells Angels, Thugs, and pregnant ladies. ’nuff said. Yeesh. Needless to say this guy was no longer my friend after this little event.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:01:02 +0000

There are ALWAYS cops there so safety not an issue inside. For every 5 average dancers there is one dancer who is a 9 – 10. It is out of the way so you can enter discreetly

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:42:35 +0000

Looks like they may have started to clean up their place:
http://urbanplacesandspaces.blogspot.com/2008/11/louis-rogue-show-bar-gets-fixed-up.html

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:20:53 +0000

Isn’t this directly across the street from the City Vista and the new Busboys and Poets? If so, I hardly think anyone is “smoking blunts” on the sidewalk between shifts. I also think the character of the clientele and dancers will soon change (or has changed, who knows, I’ve never been there and probably very few people here have) as the neighborhood around it changes with them. That is, until Jim Graham lies to them and they leave (“we want to building something with taxpayer money there for some private group, so why don’t you guys just move and we’ll find another place in the city for you…..not”).

By: Sully

Sully — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:08:55 +0000

I am gonna swallow my embarassment and say tht I have actually ventured into this place when I first moved here. I had no idea but I wanted to look tough and stayed for a Bud. The women were attractive ( more or less) and butt naked, no food, and i never moved from the bar or roamed around because i was scared sh**less of what kind of patrons I might make eye contact with accidently. One thing I did get a kick out of were the surly Jersey lady bartenders. They were a hoot.

By: tonysmallframe

tonysmallframe — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:51:25 +0000

That website is pretty boss too.

By: rdo

rdo — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:50:06 +0000

If you like your “dancers” smoking blunts out on the sidewalk before jumping on stage, you’ll love this spot.

By: Disaffected in DC

Disaffected in DC — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:19:18 +0000

Back in the mid-to late 80s, this was a gay bar. It even had, before my time, male nude dancers a la Secrets or the old La Cage, Rascals, and Chesapeake House. I was in high school/college at the time and the immediate neighborhood was way too scary for me to venture there. At some point, the bar changed from gay to straight. Back in the mid-90s, they hosted the infamous “Sweat Parties” on a couple of occasions as private events. Fun, fun, fun. Too much fun that anyone should be allowed to have.

If the bar turned gay again and continued to be a dive but with male nude dancers, any vacant units in Madrigal Lofts, Yale, CityVista would be bought up real fast. Maybe even the Doomont would finally come on line.