n2guysnatl Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 2 hours ago, andymn said: Got it — thanks. So Swinging Richards is opening somewhere else this summer? Any idea where? 2 hours ago, andymn said: Got it — thanks. So Swinging Richards is opening somewhere else this summer? Any idea where? The dancer indicated that it would be the same location. Don't know how reliable this information is but he is a former dancer from SR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andymn Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 1 hour ago, n2guysnatl said: The dancer indicated that it would be the same location. Don't know how reliable this information is but he is a former dancer from SR. So, same name and location, but with new ownership? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ tassojunior Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 St8 strip clubs do make a lot more money than gay ones. Ultimately real estate development makes ultimate value and in DC it's very fast to that highest value. (although we still have a few grand-fathered in straight strip clubs in high-priced areas). Secrets is now a 12-story condo. + azdr0710 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ azdr0710 Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 1 hour ago, tassojunior said: St8 strip clubs do make a lot more money than gay ones. Ultimately real estate development makes ultimate value and in DC it's very fast to that highest value. (although we still have a few grand-fathered in straight strip clubs in high-priced areas). Secrets is now a 12-story condo. I was at Secrets about five or six years ago once or twice......I think it was on a road called Half St or something??.....front door faced west, I think, at the SW corner of the building?......that building is now completely gone???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioRob Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 7 minutes ago, azdr0710 said: I was at Secrets about five or six years ago once or twice......I think it was on a road called Half St or something??.....front door faced west, I think, at the SW corner of the building?......that building is now completely gone???? Correct... 1824 Half St SW. (SouthWest represented what quadrant of the city the location is in.) That building is now 100% gone. Below are from August 2020 just a few months after it closed. The new building is actually up, but I have not been out that way to grab a photo of the new condos that replaced it in a while. There's nothing else like it left in DC unfortunately. + azdr0710, DruJac and + tassojunior 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ganymede255 Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 Secrets was indeed on Half Street SW from 2009 to 2020 after being forced to move from Its original O Street SE location to make room for the new Nationals baseball park. It closed for good in 2020 as the “Buzzard Point” area underwent redevelopment in conjunction with construction of the new home of the DC United soccer team at Audi Field. The building in which it was located was indeed torn down. + azdr0710 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ azdr0710 Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 (edited) I wonder if the green fire hydrant here is the same one as in RadioRob's picture just upthread??!!....some brick pavers were possibly added after this Google picture?? https://www.google.com/maps/@38.8673899,-77.0106556,3a,75y,53.22h,81.23t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sQjE4d98UbH-QPANjThUK_Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en Edited January 23, 2022 by azdr0710 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioRob Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 That's the one. The brick is actually part of the sidewalk/walking path. + azdr0710 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ tassojunior Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 22 hours ago, azdr0710 said: I was at Secrets about five or six years ago once or twice......I think it was on a road called Half St or something??.....front door faced west, I think, at the SW corner of the building?......that building is now completely gone???? 22 hours ago, RadioRob said: Correct... 1824 Half St SW. (SouthWest represented what quadrant of the city the location is in.) That building is now 100% gone. Below are from August 2020 just a few months after it closed. The new building is actually up, but I have not been out that way to grab a photo of the new condos that replaced it in a while. There's nothing else like it left in DC unfortunately. Yes, the Zeigfields/Secrets building was torn down in August 2020 and construction started on the new condo which occupies the whole block immediately. It was also home in the 1970's to DC's first gay mega dance bar, The Pier 9, where there were phones on tables so you could call tables to flirt. Thee old Coast Guard HQ next door was gutted to a shell in 2018 and converted into 550 luxury units called The Watermark. I'm not sure the new building on Secret's site has a name yet but it's 350 units, also 12 stories (I was there a month ago) and here's the article and drawing of it. The red brick on the right of the new building is where Secrets was. (There's a couple dozen new buildings like these in that immediate area now and Audi soccer field is across the street from the old Secrets). RIP + azdr0710 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bordeauxfan Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 (edited) Ahh, memories of O Street SE from the 1990s. Residents of the new high-priced condo buildings wouldn't believe what that multi-block area used to look like. I go to Nats Park a few times a year, and I'm still trying to determine what part of the park (3rd base? the left outfield?) was the north stretch of O Street from S Capitol to Half Street SE. The amount of splooge spilled (mine included) during those years would be quite something to quantify 🤔 Edited January 25, 2022 by bordeauxfan + tassojunior, Whammo and jake1973 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jake1973 Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 Yeah I danced a few times at the O street location back when god was a boy... went to the new place once and to me it felt about as sexy as a pancake house in comparison... no touching allowed and a lot of straight gawkers from the drag bar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fresh Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 So, back on topic. Will another male strip club open at SR location? Inquiring minds want to know. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atlanta_Guy Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 Already answered….. yes, a female strip club Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fresh Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 There was some discussion from a former dancer suggesting a return to a male strip club under new management. Wishful thinking perhaps. Thanks for the info and clarification. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJK Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 I lived in ATL from 1986 until recently and practically grew up going to SR from when it first opened in the old Howard Johnsons - that building later became the Mouse House - through the move down the street and that area becoming gentrified. There was one dancer who was there for most of that time and I remember when the guy who now owns Johnson's was a dancer at SR, I do hope it reopens. I went to college in DC and remember the Pier very well. They would have college events on Saturday nights and slip promotional cards under our dorm room doors. Every straight college student in DC would be there. (For the younger set, the drinking age in DC was 18 until Oct 1982, at which time it went up one day at a time for the next three years. We could drink beer or wine only, so bars would use huge black magic markers to draw big black Xs between your thumb and index finger on each hand, We would go to the bathroom, take out the small tube of toothpaste we brought in and scrub off what we called the chicken marks.) I also remember O St quite fondly. I would ride my bike there from the dorm once or twice a week. There would often be political VIPs looking for action, including the head of a well known PAC who seemed to live there. I also love the theater that was next door to the bathhouse, upstairs. I used to go there to see porn stars perform on Sunday afternoons and once met and fucked Joey Stefano in front of an auditorium full of men. + Vegas_Millennial, Luv2play and Blackout351 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chidude Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 So there was a rumor during closing weekend at Swinging Richards in January that a gay night at The Onyx stripclub off Cheshire Bridge Rd would hopefully get going this summer. Has there been any movement on that or was it just a pipe dream? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Monroe Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 Considering the popularity of onyx, I doubt they’d give up one night for gays. And If they did it would be an off night. Chidude 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BonVivant Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 Looks like SR is in or back in business: https://swingingrichards.com/#schedule Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJK Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 17 minutes ago, BonVivant said: Looks like SR is in or back in business: https://swingingrichards.com/#schedule I fear this is not a current ad. The ad claims SR will be open beginning Wednesday, June 23. Unfortunately, June 23 is a Thursday this year, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioRob Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 31 minutes ago, BonVivant said: Looks like SR is in or back in business: https://swingingrichards.com/#schedule I think their old website just has not been taken down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BonVivant Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 7 minutes ago, RadioRob said: I think their old website just has not been taken down. Yup. Ok. Sorry. I guess I was like Yay they are back. Oh well. Sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fresh Posted May 5, 2022 Share Posted May 5, 2022 Just curious.. has the building been torn down or converted to a straight strip club? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Monroe Posted May 5, 2022 Share Posted May 5, 2022 20 hours ago, Leo Hammond said: Just curious.. has the building been torn down or converted to a straight strip club? I drive by every day. The building still stands. I haven’t driven by at night so I can’t say, but don’t doubt it’s been converted to anything yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fresh Posted May 5, 2022 Share Posted May 5, 2022 (edited) Thanks for the update, inquiring minds want to know! Edited May 5, 2022 by Leo Hammond Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chidude Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 With Richards gone and rumors of a rebirth elsewhere in town seeming less and less likely, what has happened to all the hot male dancer talent in Atlanta? Has BJ Roosters absorbed much of the roster list and clientele? Doesn’t sound like Matt from Johnson’s is going to come to Atl anytime soon since he has his hands full with the Dallas and Tampa Johnsons expansions. Seems like such a great time to capitalize after the void Richards left. Blackout351 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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