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There aren't many places in the world that would be worse going to than a strip club in Fort Dodge.


I have heard (honestly never been there) there is a strip club in Myrtle, Minnesota; population 44. Would guess going there on local talent night would be a little tough.
 
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For those of you who have kids that are now "on their own". Did you notice much of reduction in expenses when you were no longer paying for everything of them? Wife said she wants to retire at first chance she can and that would happen in 7 years. Youngest would have one year of college done. Penciling things out and trying to see what that would require of me. Thinking without vehicles, insurance, food, extra utilities, gas, clothes it could save a decent chunk. I know it doesn't just stop, but trying to wrap my arms around this. Would also like to not have to work until my early 70s if possible.
 
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For those of you who have kids that are now "on their own". Did you notice much of reduction in expenses when you were no longer paying for everything of them? Wife said she wants to retire at first chance she can and that would happen in 7 years. Youngest would have one year of college done. Penciling things out and trying to see what that would require of me. Thinking without vehicles, insurance, food, extra utilities, gas, clothes it could save a decent chunk. I know it doesn't just stop, but trying to wrap my arms around this. Would also like to not have to work until my early 70s if possible.

Well, 4 of 5 of them ended up "borrowing" money from us. Some more than once. So maybe it never ends.

I'm pulling the pin next summer when I hit 65. I figure with my health issues, the vixen and I need to do some things we want to do now, before it's too late.
 

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Former strip clubs that no longer exist. At one time, we probably had more strip clubs per capita than anyplace in the state.

Not a real bragging point, though. :(
Must have had a hell of a lot of them since there was Chris' Go Go in Cambridge with a population probably around 850 in 1990. So Dirty Dodge would have to have had more than 30 of them.
 

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Well, 4 of 5 of them ended up "borrowing" money from us. Some more than once. So maybe it never ends.

I'm pulling the pin next summer when I hit 65. I figure with my health issues, the vixen and I need to do some things we want to do now, before it's too late.
Precisely why Lew & I jumped the gun a little early. We were having a blast traveling & visiting...until last March, that is. :mad:
 

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Strip club flashback (I do love me some Thursday Throwbacks).

1977 at B's Lounge. Was never a big fan of strip clubs but B's was different. Downtown Ames, pool tables, cold Budweiser on tap, the ancient barmaid, the Bally Freedom pinball machine (hey 1776 200 year!). Co-worker, Greg, and I had gotten laid off at Smith-Voorhees-Jensen in DSM and hung out there that summer bemoaning our employment status. Only guy who ever made me laugh so hard that I strained an abdominal muscle, and that happened at B's.

If I hear ANY of these songs it reminds me of that place and time:
Couldn't Get it Right - Cimax Blues Band
Brick House (aka Brick 'oues) - The Commodores
Main Street - Bob Seger (What could be more approp, a strip joint playing a song about a stripper)
 

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Strip club flashback (I do love me some Thursday Throwbacks).

1977 at B's Lounge. Was never a big fan of strip clubs but B's was different. Downtown Ames, pool tables, cold Budweiser on tap, the ancient barmaid, the Bally Freedom pinball machine (hey 1776 200 year!). Co-worker, Greg, and I had gotten laid off at Smith-Voorhees-Jensen in DSM and hung out there that summer bemoaning our employment status. Only guy who ever made me laugh so hard that I strained an abdominal muscle, and that happened at B's.

If I hear ANY of these songs it reminds me of that place and time:
Couldn't Get it Right - Cimax Blues Band
Brick House (aka Brick 'oues) - The Commodores
Main Street - Bob Seger (What could be more approp, a strip joint playing a song about a stripper)
At this point in your story I was wondering where this strip club story was going...

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Saylorville Township on the north edge of Des Moines had 6 strip clubs around the Firestone plant. Then the Outer Limits a mile away on highway 69.
They started opening at 7am on a Friday to get the Firestone workers getting off the night shift. They could cash their checks at The Cave.
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Saylorville Township on the north edge of Des Moines had 6 strip clubs around the Firestone plant. Then the Outer Limits a mile away on highway 69.
They started opening at 7am on a Friday to get the Firestone workers getting off the night shift. They could cash their checks at The Cave.
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I’ve been to the Outer Limits before just to say I’ve been. I’d imagine the Top Hat in Fort Dodge is very similar to it.
 

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Saylorville Township on the north edge of Des Moines had 6 strip clubs around the Firestone plant. Then the Outer Limits a mile away on highway 69.
They started opening at 7am on a Friday to get the Firestone workers getting off the night shift. They could cash their checks at The Cave.
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When we first started dating, he lived in the middle of the "triangle". When my boys (early teens) and I would go down to visit, my boys were NOT allowed to go for "walks". He had a half-acre and an above-ground pool out back...they didn't need to be "exploring"...
Yeah. I'm a mean mom...
 

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For those of you who have kids that are now "on their own". Did you notice much of reduction in expenses when you were no longer paying for everything of them? Wife said she wants to retire at first chance she can and that would happen in 7 years. Youngest would have one year of college done. Penciling things out and trying to see what that would require of me. Thinking without vehicles, insurance, food, extra utilities, gas, clothes it could save a decent chunk. I know it doesn't just stop, but trying to wrap my arms around this. Would also like to not have to work until my early 70s if possible.
We're still one vehicle, two cell phones and the youngest daughter from being child-free. We have noticed a difference -- just a little at a time.
 

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Saylorville Township on the north edge of Des Moines had 6 strip clubs around the Firestone plant. Then the Outer Limits a mile away on highway 69.
They started opening at 7am on a Friday to get the Firestone workers getting off the night shift. They could cash their checks at The Cave.
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Minx Palace and the Lumberyard are also pretty close. J & Rs and the Cave are both pretty low rent. Hitching Post is gone now. Not familiar with Shakers or The Grapevine -- and I thought I knew them all.
 

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We're still one vehicle, two cell phones and the youngest daughter from being child-free. We have noticed a difference -- just a little at a time.

With all the tax breaks to get owning a business it would probably make it even harder to retire. If we sold our house and built on the main home farm, it would really cheapen things up. Other issue is my son has been really talking about doing that himself. And I have a hard to not having a kid do that.
 
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