Strip Club News

Not long after opening for business, the owner of Casa Diablo strip club in Portland, OR, has put the establishment up for sale.

The asking price for the property is $995,000, according to this listing. And the Craigslist entry.

We get visitors every day who are looking to open a strip club. Right now probably isn’t the best time given the weakening economy. Strip clubs are closing all the time, so it isn’t a business that is immune to failure.

The reason for the owner of Casa Diablo selling is not known. However, we have seen an example such as this where an owner opens a strip club then sells it after a short time before.

There was a news article the other day about a new vegan strip club in Portland, Oregon.

Casa Diablo claims to be the world’s first vegan strip club. Patrons will find no meat, eggs, or dairy on the menu.

The owner, Johnny Diablo, was quoted as saying that the club is “vixens, not veal, and sizzle, not steak. We put the meat on the pole, not on the plate.”

Casa Diablo is located on St. Helens Rd. We will research this place and add it to our strip club list shortly.

A relatively new strip club in Salem, Oregon, is reportedly for sale. Presley’s Playhouse Cabaret opened seven months ago and the owner is looking to sell so he can move to Montana or explore other business opportunities.

Presley’s Playhouse is a nude club featuring female dancers with a liquor license. The owner, Frank Boussad, is asking $400,000 for the business and $900,000 for the property. The owner may be willing to lease the property instead of selling it outright for $5,500 per month.

According to news reports, Boussad claims the business is doing well and generating a “big profit”.

Presley’s Playhouse Cabaret Website

The city council in Salem, OR, is planning to discuss possible new regulations on lap dances following a loss in court earlier this year. In July, Marion County judge Albin Norblad ruled that the city’s prohibitions on touching were unconstitutional per the state constitution.

The case stems from a dancer who was arrested at Cheetah’s for engaging in prohibited touching in April of 2005 with an undercover police officer. The prohibited touching in question involved the grinding of the dancer’s pelvis into the officer’s pelvis for the purpose of arousing sexual excitement.

Salem residents are also hoping to gain support to amend the state constitution to allow for stricter regulation of strip clubs.

The Salem city ordinance 96.300 (PDF) read as follows:

96.300. PROHIBITED TOUCHING.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to pay a fee, or to receive a fee, directly or indirectly, for touching or offering to touch the clothed or unclothed body of another for the purpose of arousing sexual excitement in himself or any other person.

(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to pay a fee, or to receive a fee, directly or
indirectly, for allowing another person to touch his clothed or unclothed body for the purpose of arousing sexual excitement in himself or any other person.

(c) It shall be unlawful for any principal, agent, or employee of a business to cause, permit, aid, or abet any violation of this section by any principal, agent, or employee of the business. (Ord No. 96-72; Ord No. 70-74)

Even we here at Strip Club Central are surprised that a judge found grindage to be a constitutionally protected form of expression. But we aren’t complaining.

Frank Boussad is planning to open Presley’s Playhouse Cabaret in the southern part of Salem and some residents are furious. A group of residents is threatening to fight the new club all the way to the state supreme court.

One woman quoted by salem-news.com claims that she and others are upset because of the message such an establishment sends to young women and because they find it degrading to women. “Using young girls to strip and dance around naked is degrading to all women,” the woman said.

There are a number of parks and day-care centers nearby which residents will use as ammunition in their fight to try to prevent the club from opening. Residents most likely will use the old, unproven argument that naked women somehow lead to an increase in crime.

There are currently 7 strip clubs in the Salem area. It is unclear at this time how one more gentleman’s club in the Salem area is going to lead to the downfall of society.