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Posted By: <b>Adam B.</b><p>Hopefully this isn't too OT but I was reading the article below (there is a Babe Ruth/baseball card reference) and found how the founder of Rick's Cabaret got his start interesting (I believe there was one in Houston when I lived there). I will make no social commentary but it sure is different than most of the other reasons I have seen for people getting out of the hobby.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.fool.com/news/commentary/2005/commentary05092302.htm?source=eptyholnk303100&logv isit=y&npu=y" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://www.fool.com/news/commentary/2005/commentary05092302.htm?source=eptyholnk303100&logv isit=y&npu=y</a><br><br>Adam B

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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>It was longer than 16 years ago. I have been in Dallas since '87 and I used to frequent Ricks ( I was single and well.....there's a real long story here but I need much beer to talk about it) when I still lived in Houston. That makes it at least 18 years ago he started it. If I remember correctly it was another club before becoming Ricks. I frequented it's predecessor too <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>. I guess that's as good a reason as any to sell your collection......I wonder if the girls would dance for a T206 common in vg?

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Posted By: <b>Julie Vognar</b><p>"damn near anything." I'm sure there're stranger things to buy with it than a strip club...

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Posted By: <b>runscott</b><p>We had a batchelor party at the Rick's in Houston around 20 years ago. The joke that night was "sure, I'll have a table dance - put it on Tom's tab, he's handling the party". What fun, and free. There was this thing one of the girls did...she had really, really long hair and could form a tent over you with it...uhh...never mind.

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Posted By: <b>tbob</b><p>This isn't Broadway Rick is it? If so, I'd check the girls for trims and alterations.

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Posted By: <b>Scott Forrest</b><p>Those sweet little girls would be in their '40s now, on their second set of alterations, and the trim... <img src="/images/sad.gif" height=14 width=14> Okay, they would be working at Waffle House.