Bake a Platinum Strip Club Icon with a microphone

Unquestionably Bake is a St Louis Metro East strip club icon. Disc Jockey, doorman, parking lot attendant, bartender, and club manager, Bake's done it all.

Ask dancers and ex dancers who've worked with him years ago back when Bake worked at the Centreville, IL club when Platinum ran it. "Where's Bake now?" they ask me. "I miss him."

Back in those days I used to bring my digital camera into the Centreville Club, usually with Jade who was my partner in crime then. We'd wind up in the VIP room with the camera and laptop which we set on a table. We'd snap up an entertainer or two, a waitress, and nearly always, Bake, if he was there. Jade would kid me over who was the better photographer or handier on the laptop. We'd all cut up and have a blast and Bake was invariably in the middle of it all.

Now Bake's the kind of guy you want to have around you. I had heard stories about the occasional fight started by a customer in the Centreville club and how Bake had been as quick as a cat getting to the bad guys, once jumping a table that was in his way, quite a feat for a guy who goes over three hundred pounds.

Your first impression of Bake is: "I don't want to mess with him." Your second impression is likely to be: "I don't even want to mess with him verbally."

got that kind of wit. He can impale you with his tongue alone. Third impression will come when you sit down with him and talk one on one, on almost any subject. He's opinionated, knowledgeable, logical, and reasonable.

Above all, he's fun. Just click on this picture as you keep reading and you will see what I mean. Just one of my many "Bake stories". It's a bright sunny afternoon and Bake's working outside the Platinum Club watching the parking lot. Roxy's, a PT's club is just across the street less than seventy-five yards from Platinum. In his hand are free passes to the Platinum Club. "Should been here Friday night," Bake tells me. "I must have gotten a hundred guys to come in. They were going to Roxy's so I yelled to them: "Get your free passes here for Platinum. The place was really jumping."

About then, the parking lot attendant over at Roxy's walks over to us. He's a young guy I hadn't seen in months but we had gotten along well. He came over just to talk to me. Two customers are about to walk into Roxy's when Bake calls out to them: "Come on over and get your free passes to Platinum." The Roxy's parking lot attendant laughs. It is obvious that Bake and the parking lot attendants over at Roxy's get along well. (I can just see Bake working over at a baseball park hawking hot dogs and beer).

Here you see Bake working as club DJ But don't let the serious expression on his face fool you. And Like the other Platinum DJ's, his selections of music are usually excellent. He's just old enough to fit right in with most of the clubs customers. So his music fits right in with their tastes. And if you want to listen to punk rock, hang out with the punks because Bake is no punk. Oh, and one more thing, hanging out with him is as much fun as hanging out with just about anybody.

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