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The Hardware Store Gentleman's Club - Clyman, Wisconsin - Dadio academic strip club critique
This entry was posted on 6/24/2010 1:58 AM and is filed under Strip club academic critique.
I must admit had I never heard of The Hardware Store Gentleman's Cub in Clyman, Wisconsin. Oh hell, I had never heard of Clyman before either. Yet they are about 50 miles north of me, right up Highway 26 which passes within a quarter mile from my house.
Just taking the drive up there from Janesville is worth the effort. You will pass through some good old Southern Wisconsin towns...and their good ol' Wisconsin taverns and eateries. Places like Milton; Fort Atkinson; Jefferson; Johnson Creek; and, Watertown. Clyman is off the highway so of course, I missed the turn.
If you find downtown Main Street Clyman, you will find the club. The whole of the town is basically taken up by a huge agri-business facility which borders the old main street. None-the-less, the old main street holds its own. But, all that is left from better days is a couple of buildings and a couple of taverns - one being the subject of this posting.
The The Hardware Store looks like a tavern from the front, if even that. No fancy signage or neon lights guide you in for a landing like with other strip clubs. This has more of a saloon timbre about it. Upon entering the front door, you will be greeted by a guy who could pass as an eighteen-wheeler driver with a ball cap, jeans, and blue jean shirt. He will extract five Bucks from you.
There is a long bar facing away from the dance floor which is only a few feet to your back. There is one pole. There is another pole and dance floor in the multi-purpose room. There, you will also find a pool table and some gaming machines.
The girls were dancing topless with G-string bottoms the night I was there. There was a gaggle of black chicks dancing. Several of them said they make the trek from the Milwaukee area to dance in this club. That has to be a hell of a journey. There were other ethnicities represented including Asian, Hispanic, and white dancers if you are into that part of the strip club shtick.
The dancer-to-customer ratio was weighted way toward more women. That can be good, and that can be bad. One could look at too many dancers as a problematic thing. They are all competing for your pathetic few dollars. It is easy to become overwhelmed with estrogen and breasts - it could be tempting to just flee with your remaining dollars.
I however, took one for the team and toughed it out for a bit. This is a place you must put on your "got-to-get-there-one-of-these-days" list. If you end up in a nursing home with applesauce dribbling down your chin, by then you know it is too late to finish your to-do list - so, don't blame me.
It sounds like they open a bit earlier on the weekends. Find The Hardware Store Gentleman's Cub at 942 Main Street, Clyman, Wisconsin. North of Watertown, take County Road CJ to the east a mile or so off Highway 26. Call (920) 696 - 3133 for for more information.
Wisconsin Military Service Person Special Mention of the Week
(each week Cooldadiomedia mentions a Wisconsin service person killed in Iraq or Afghanistan)
Army Specialist Eric D. Clark, 22, of Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, died in Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday, May 11, 2006 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee vehicle during combat patrol operations. Specialist E-4 Clark was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 6th Field Artillery Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, New York. He was one of two soldiers killed in the incident; he was serving at Camp Liberty in Baghdad. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel mentioned Clark had served in the Army since January 2002. He was to return from Baghdad in November 2005 and was to be out of the Army in January 2006. But, Clark's service was extended by Army's stop loss policy, which keeps military personnel beyond their required term of service. After the extension he was due home in July of 2006. His original motivation to join the Army was the attacks on September 11, 2001. Wisconsin 2007 Assembly Joint Resolution 73 states Clark enlisted in the Army while still in high school. Eric graduated from Indian Trail Academy in Kenosha, Wisconsin in 2001. He completed basic training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in May 2003. His first duty station was at Camp Hovey, Korea. Clark was deployed to Iraq in August 2005. Pleasant Prairie is a small community west of Kenosha, Wisconsin. The Journal Sentinel went on to mention Clark's family celebrated Eric's life by remembering his sense of humor, quick wit, outrageous dancing and knack for impersonations. Family members described Clark as a "real cutup who would memorize lines from movies and do impersonations of famous actors." His passion for acting was fueled by working at the local movie theater. He had planned to go to college and become an English teacher and act on the side. At the time of his death Eric Clark was survived by sister Jade Clark, brother Evan Clark; half sisters Meg, and Audra Clark; stepsister and stepbrother Anna and Jared Buckingham; mother Joanne Marfechuk; stepfather Bob Marfechuk; father Kevin Clark; and stepmother Paula Clark. Army Specialist Eric Clark was the 55th Wisconsin military service member to be killed in Iraq since the Spring of 2003.
As of this blog entry's posting date:
96,803 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
9,519 Iraqi Security Forces have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
4,407 Americans have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
1126 Americans have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
318 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
724 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
31,860 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
6,355 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
102 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
19 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
142 journalists (several nationalities) have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
21 journalists (various nationalities) have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
Wisconsin military service person special mention of the week, military casualty, and journalist casualty information sources: Committee to Protect Journalists; cnn.com; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; washingtonpost.com; thehighground.org; Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs; iraqbodycount.org; and, icasualties.org.
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