![]() Matson seemed to enjoy performing for crowds lining the streets but didn’t like giving up an hour’s worth of lap dancing tips to be here.ĭancers ride in the truck for free with the aim of boosting the clubs’ business and benefiting themselves. “That’s more dirty than I am,” she said, giggling. Matson, during a pole routine, noticed a rolling billboard ad that said “Hot Babes Direct To You!” Her complaint has less to do with racy content - such as signs advertising escort services - than having slow-moving trucks clogging traffic and blocking scenery, she said. She wants the county to look into whether the 1999 ban on new standing billboards applies to mobile ones. Sisolak countered that all those attractions are stationary and not cruising alongside motorists.Ĭommissioner Chris Giunchigliani plans to use this topic to bring up a different pet peeve of hers: mobile billboards on the Strip. There’s an exploding volcano, cannon fire a musical fountain and gigantic neon signs, he said. He argued that the Strip has far more distracting sights and sounds than a few bikini-clad women dancing in a plastic box. “You’ve got to stand out and grab their attention in the moment,” Beard said.īeard said the road shows have increased foot traffic in the clubs noticeably, but he couldn’t say by how much. It doesn’t belong on the Strip.” Larry Beard, Déjà Vu’s marketing director, said the creative marketing tactic is needed in the economic downturn, especially in a city with short attention spans and myriad choices for entertainment. I don’t care if it’s strippers or Chippendale dancers or a juggler. “Let’s get a handle on this before it gets out of hand,” Sisolak said. Otherwise, they will proliferate and grow more extravagant in a town where businesses constantly try to one-up rivals, he said.īefore long, 20 women in g-strings and pasties will be dancing lewdly on a long flatbed truck, he said. ![]() 17 meeting to ban mobile shows or at least tightly restrict them. Sisolak will recommend at the commission’s Nov. The all-nude clubs Déjà Vu Showgirls and Little Darlings began hauling dancers up and down Las Vegas Boulevard a couple weeks ago to lure patrons, whose numbers have dwindled in the recession.īut the experiment could be short-lived because one Clark County leader fears it might work too well.Ĭommissioner Steve Sisolak said he opposes live entertainment on wheels because he thinks it’s far more distracting to drivers than static images such as billboards mounted on trucks.Īlthough he has received some complaints about the risqué element, he considers that a lesser concern. “It’s good to know people are still excited about our club … and the fantasy offered.” “It’s interesting,” Matson said about the reactions. ![]() Carloads of people gave her thumbs-up signs. Heather “Passion” Matson, 21, beckoned drivers and pedestrians on the Strip with her skimpy outfit, come-hither smile and suggestive moves that included flipping upside down with legs spread.Įven under the Strip’s chaotic neon, the lone pole dancer encased beneath a bright, stagy light drew wide-eyed stares late Tuesday night.Ĭouples stopped, pointed and smiled. The young stripper wrapped herself around a chrome pole inside a giant Plexiglas box on the back of a rolling truck.
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