Jumbo's Clown Room (Los Angeles, California)

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5153 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90027-6113
(323) 666-1187
jumbos.com/

Local legends surround this place. Troubled gadabout Courtney Love made her entertainment-biz debut dancing here (True). Fever-dream director David Lynch came here to write, and used it as the basis for the club scenes in Blue Velvet. (Unverified, but believable). It's not exactly a strip club, but it's not the typical 4 AM dive, either. A rotating cast of women take the stage and dance suggestively in fanciful costumes, which they sometimes partially remove, but there's no nudity as such. It's also less predictable than most straight-up strip joints. The clientele is more eclectic, festive and gregarious. Even the guys up front, the hard-tipping superfans, don't look like they're at work. The dancers boast a range of styles and quirks, skew more SuicideGirls than Hustler, and more often gyrate to Echo and the Bunnymen or "A Day In the Life" than 2 Live Crew and Warrant. If you've always wanted to see a relatively attractive young woman in a spacesuit pole-dancing to "Space Oddity," this is the place to be. (source: notfortourists.com/listingDetails.aspx?listingID=822866...