Topeka Strip Club Cabaret
hosts Marathon Nude Pageant
by Jack Corbett
Topeka Strip Club Cabaret and Pure Talent
Feature Enertainers dance nude for four days in Miss Nude Great Plains
Pageant
For four nights the amateurs (house dancers) and the feature entertainers competed
here for a trip to Hawaii for two and a thousand dollars cash--and even more
important, the all important credit that comes from being the best out of all
the contestants. Carrie Bare from Wisconsin would finish third, but you wouldn't
know it from her pictures or great performances. K.C. Cannons would once again
show why she's one of the consistent favorites with the fans in the country
today, after bringing the whole house on its feet before she left the stage
each night. But for these four nights the best of the best was to be Samantha
Starr, a young blonde from Kansas City, Missouri, an almost complete unknown
in today's adult entertainment world.
K.C.Cannons
But
Samantha's crowning achievement is to be the subject of another article here
in "The Looking Glass", to be followed in a week in "Xtreme Magazine"
over on the East Coast, in my latest dancer profile. This is about our Landmark
of the month, Club Cabaret U.S.A., which hosted the event which was meticulously
prepaired by feature entertainer Lexy Lamour.
Lexy LaMour
It
wasn't that long ago that I used to say, "You know why God is not God?
The reason is that whenever we go out West is that we often drive on highway
70 and have to go all the way through Kansas which is long and narrow. Now if
God were really God he would have inverted it so we would only have a short
drive through this long and narrow state and get onto the good stuff in Colorado
and beyond." But after visiting Club Cabaret and being around the place
in Topeka for four days and nights I'm changing my mind.
Carrie Bare
As
a photographer and guest of a club NEVER have I been better treated as I have
here. A lot of the credit has to go to Lexy for putting us all in the right
motel. There we didn't have to pay for phone calls or to use the laundry facilities--or
practically anything else for that matter. And it was just a few short miles
down an idyllic winding road from Club Cabaret. It seemed that everything was
so relaxed and laid back throughout the area.
Club
Cabaret U.S.A. will remind you of the Platinum Club over in the St Louis Metro
East. And it should be since it was owned by the same owner. Inside, all the
lights, the club's bars, the vip room, all of it spells glamour bearing the
mark of its recent owner. But just a few months ago the owner sold Platinum
to PT's and only three weeks ago he sold Club Cabaret to a nice fellow named
Ross who also owns a club in Emporia, Kansas.
Samantha Starr
Now
Ross doesn't look like a club owner at all, or the way the general public thinks
a club owner should look. Let's see.....what's a club owner supposed to look
like? For one thing he's supposed to have dark beady eyes, and he's gotta look
Italian, preferably Sicilian, like those actors in all those Godfather flicks.
Well, Ross, is just going to have to disappoint the public that expects a club
owner to look like one of those Mafia types. For one thing, he's an ex college
basketball coach which makes him look more like a kindly teacher than about
anything else I can come up with right now. A white haired gentleman with an
affable air about him, he looks you right in the eye. He's just one of those
people you know right off who has nothing to hide and who's true to his word.
A man with a zest for life and getting to know the people he meets in that long
journey we all must take.
While
I was shooting pictures for these four nights, the old owner was there too,
which made me feel good since I've known him for years. And Spring was there
too, Spring who used to work for him at the Platinum Club. Spring who got into
seven adult magazines before her 21st birthday, who was recently almost crushed
to death in a tragic car accident that claimed her boyfriend. Last year Spring
won all the marbles at Miss Nude of Illinois which was held at Platinum. After
the accident she lay in a coma for two weeks, suffering numerous injuries and
was told she would never dance again. Told she would never regain the full use
of her body. But she's dancing again and here she was at Miss Nude Prairie after
being warned not to compete because it was too soon. She had to hurt inside
knowing she wanted to be up on that stage going once again full bore for the
crown. Then the club owner she used to work for me asked me to interview her
for a magazine telling me...."This is what it is all about. Her story must
be told."
I
knew Spring. Had even done a photo shoot of her way out in Missouri before she
even came to Platinum. For a short time she even lived in my apartment complex.
And Jim, who had owned both clubs, kept asking me, "Have you taken pictures
of her yet? Have you interviewed her yet?"
Spring
and I sat outside the club in my Miata with its top down. The night air was
warm and no one bothered us while I ran the tape recorder as I asked her questions.
But I didn't have to ask her many. She talked a lot about the accident and about
how short life was, how unimportant money was, and how it should be experienced
for all that it is, because it all could end so suddenly. I had also known her
boyfriend, who was a good guy as far as I was concerned. And then she was in
tears, and after we were done, I walked with her back into the club--my eyes
misted over.
Spring and
the author
He
wants that article done. The man that just sold Platinum and Club Cabaret U.S.A.
Usually I run into him at the Platinum VIP room upstairs in its bar, neither
of us very serious about anything. It was great having him there while I was
going full speed ahead, working at 100 percent to get the best pictures I could
possibly get. I had a lot of help--from the club's house dancers many of whom
put in a great show and an exceptional group of features. And a lot of encouragement
from the club's owners, the man who recently owned the club and the man who's
just taken over and a great staff. It doesn't get any better than this.
