Las Vegas Strip Clubs: Las Vegas: The buff history: Legendary moments in Strip nudity (and seminudity)
March 11, 2010 by diamond
1969: Valley’s first full-frontal strip club opens
The Palomino’s naked significance goes even further. As the only full-frontal club still standing in 1973, it was grandfathered in when the law changed to forbid simultaneous nudity and liquor licenses. That’s why the Palomino remains the only valley club serving up both fully nude dancers and alcohol. (According to current owner Adam Gentile, it can continue doing so until 2020.)
1979: First (and last) full-frontal Strip show
Porn star Marilyn Chambers brought the first and only all-nude performance to Las Vegas Boulevard South when her one-woman play, “The Sex Surrogate,” opened at the Jolly Trolley Casino (now Bonanza Gifts). Ignoring pleas from management to stop at her G-string, Chambers found her show promptly closed because of pressure from local officials who pointed out (rightly so) that full nudity is banned in casinos with unrestricted gaming licenses.
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This celluloid clunker simultaneously destroyed the Hollywood careers of writer Joe Eszterhas and actress Elizabeth Berkley. But it also successfully repackaged Las Vegas sin — which had lost some serious edge by the early ’90s — for the “Saved By the Bell” generation. Scenes were shot at the Cheetah’s strip club and the Stardust.