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Originally Posted by mineistaken
I don't get it, why is that relevant? If you pass the law that it is illegal to have nudity + drinks it should apply to every club. What operation start date has to do with that?
When countries pass a law that it is illegal to smoke inside restaurants it applies to every restaurant, does not matter its operation start date, lol.
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Because it isn't a federal law. It's a local ordinance and some businesses are "Grandfathered" in under ordinances.
That's why The Riviera on Las Vegas Strip (in business since 1955) can have the topless show "Crazy Girls", but if you so much as show a boob for 5 seconds at the new Cosmopolitan or Aria casinos the govt. will shut you down.
The Flamingo on the strip (built by Bugsy Seigel back in the 1940's) has topless revues as well. But ou can't have that at The Venetian for instance.
I've been reading the history of Vegas...back in the 1930's and 1940's they had full nude showgirl revues at some of the casinos on Fremont Street (the original Las Vegas Strip). And even topless girls dealing cards at the Blackjack tables.
You can't do that now either.
We lose our freedom here in this country little by little over time. And it's usually something that most people won't argue about.
I mean who was going to stand up and say: "Yes! We should be able to have a drink when a naked girl is dancing for us!"
Nobody.
It's just interesting to compare how much we allow the govt. to order us around like we are little kids or something. What possible business is it of the govt. if you are in a strip club with a naked girl dancing for you and you have a drink in your hand?
It's just crazy that people 30, 40, 50, 60, or 70 years ago could do things that we are not "allowed" to do by the govt. anymore.
You don't realize just how much power they hold over you until you compare it.
You would think that we would have moved forward in our views on sexuality since the 1930's. And in some ways we did.
But in other ways...we're more prudish than ever before.