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November 19, 2009 · 4:21 PM

StripperMobile: An ideal way to establish pole position

By Justice

I think the short-lived StripperMobile was fantastic. It is, unfortunately, no longer on the streets, even though now the owner says it will be back. I’m not even sure how long it was around. I believe that it went away within a week of me first knowing about it. Did you ever get a chance to see it? It was a car that drove around advertising Déjà Vu Showgirls but it is unlike any other advertisement in Vegas. In the back of the car, instead of a boring billboard with scantily clad women on it, there are real live strippers in a Plexiglas room complete with a stripper pole in the center. The girls hang out in the room doing pole tricks while the car drives around in tourist locations. My thoughts are that this was an incredibly creative and hilarious way to advertise a strip club. It’s great. It’s some really cool performance art. It’s like those platform shoes with goldfish inside them but on a larger scale and with hot girls and no water or fish.

Upon reading in the Las Vegas Sun about the StripperMobile, I was shocked by the controversy. I wasn’t surprised by the legal issues surrounding the existence of the StripperMobile. It is understandable that there is concern that the car is unsafe for both the “passengers” and for other drivers on the road being distracted by the strippers.

My shock and disappointment comes from the puritan views expressed in the comments. “People with children vacation in Vegas” one person commented, implying that this type of advertisement is inappropriate for them to see. Whether it is or isn’t, the bombardment of sex and nudity in other forms of advertisement on the Strip, I believe, make the StripperMobile relatively mild since the passengers all have their private parts completely covered. Seeing a flock of ladies on the way to a nightclub will likely give you as much of an eyeful.

Who brings their kids to Vegas anyway? You’ve got to expect them to see some pretty risqué stuff if you’re going to take them for a stroll in the heart of Sin City. It’s the sort of thing that happens in Vegas. It stays here but it’s not a secret.

8 Comments So Far

I am sorry to hear of the demise of the Strippermobile, but your loyal fans were fearing that you had trod the boards for the last time and had retired the T-bar. I hope you are still making the world beautiful, one bump and grind at a time.
The StripperMobile sounds something like the long-lived Oscar Meyer Wiener mobile which, I believe, is still around, although I haven't seen it since I moved to Minnesota. Basically, control over vehicle heights, etc. is determined by the state motor vehicle departments (now mostly Departments of Transportation) with some overriding considerations by the Federal Highway Administration. There is not too much Clark County or the City of Las Vegas can do about it.

Posted by: rrbill on 11/19/09 at 6:38 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I saw the Oscar Meyer Wiener Mobile parked in the Mandalay Bay parking lot last month! 100% true! I've got the photos to prove it!

Posted by: Rick Lax (Staff) on 11/19/09 at 7:23 p.m. (Suggest removal)

As a parent, i would NOT bring young children to Vegas. I have been there (prior to kids) and even though there are some things that are directed at kids, that city is NOT Disneyland.

Posted by: MG on 11/20/09 at 5:23 a.m. (Suggest removal)

That's hilarious! Do you have any pictures? I'm surprised that traveling sideshow didn't make the USA Today.

Being a responsible law-abiding citizen, I also must admit that I'd be one of those distracted drivers, and God forbid, an accident did occur, Lord only knows where that pole would end up?

Only in Vegas .........

Posted by: Awol737 on 11/20/09 at 6:52 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Although it pains my brain so, to go there; what if, it, had been a speedo-filled sausage box? Afterall, lock a gang of cocksure men in a room and anything goes...
girls girls girls

Posted by: cypher on 11/20/09 at 10:39 a.m. (Suggest removal)

There is no any culture left in the place. I went to Lady Ga GA concert and Palms shamelessly allowed kids to participate there where Ga GA and a man desiring to change his sex were saying: Hello mother f@#$s, to get a cunnilingus from us stay after the concert etc! Why Palms did not alarm parents? Why all streets are filled with pornography material on the strip? Where Metro is looking at? Now this stripper mobile... I am against.

Posted by: svetaet27 on 12/25/09 at 9:32 p.m. (Suggest removal)

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