Bliss Atlanta to bring male adult entertainment to the corner of LaVista and Cheshire Bridge Roads.
Bliss Atlanta, an all male entertainment strip club, is opening on Cheshire Bridge Road.
The strip club located at 2284 Cheshire Bridge Road will replace 24 K Club.
Bliss will celebrate its grand opening Aug. 20, according to its website.
The strip club posted an AD on Craigslist earlier this month seeking male entertainers and other staff.
Bliss will be the second all gay strip club in metro Atlanta. Swinging Richards on Northside Drive is the first.
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Stay classy Atlanta
Will they have a buffet?
Better than another ghetto club.
Gays bring up property values. Ghetto garbage destroys it.
I’d rather see a gay strip club on every street corner than another “da club” anywhere.
@Urbanist
Do you mouth “stay classy” when another crime-ridden hood club opens? No, you’re embarrassingly PC then (“It’s not their fault. It’s how we develop Atlanta.” Right).
But, as always, it’s okay to knock something that’s gay.
Let me know if you can find any statistics of bullets flying at any gay club or gay strip club.
Go ahead. I’ll wait. While happily stuffing dollars into a speedo.
Stay elitist, Urbanist.
I thought the city didn’t allow for new strip clubs and that the existing ones would be able to continue to operate under a grandfather clause as long as they stayed in their current location. Is this not correct or has Bliss somehow dodged this rule?
P.S. Caleb, you might want to do something with captcha to draw attention to it. I’m use to it now but lost a couple of posts in the past few days because I didn’t notice it had been added. Perhaps bold the question or use a different color.
I’m confused by their website. Clicking on the employment tab (just out of curiosity LOL) brought my to the full Bliss website, but there’s no mention of the club featuring guys there, just girls. Is it just gay at night? Or has the website not been updated?
@jason — thanks for your feedback. unfortunately, we can’t change the way the captcha is setup but we’ll look into other options.
@jonc — from what we understand: girls during the day, guys at night.
–cjs
@ Palin – I’ve never said that individuals aren’t responsible for their actions. What I have said, in multiple places, at multiple times, is that the city of Atlanta could go a long way to deterring the type of criminal activity that occurs, if it was more thoughtful with respect to how they developed the city. Nobody is trying to give anyone a pass, and nobody is trying to shift the responsibility of the individual to the city, or society.
Just because I condemn people who use race as their basis for criticism and finger-pointing doesn’t mean I don’t think people should be held accountable for their actions. I just think the people who use race as an accusation, or an excuse, are at the lowest rungs of the intellectual totem pole…yes, that means you.
I know you’d like to think that I’m uber PC, and that I want the world to bear the burden an individuals actions, as it would serve your feeble-minded purpose of just pointing the finger, and calling names, but that’s not the way it is.
Add morality to the list of things Urbanist thinks he has more of than us.
Add homophobic and biggot to the things we know he is.
Well, thats just…. interesting… haha
I’m getting my dollar bills ready now – all warm and smelly.
Wow, the entertainment options here really appeal to the lowest common denominator. Aren’t there enough strip clubs already? Havn’t we reached the full saturation point yet? How about something a little classier and sophisticated, like a theater company? Or has the state killed off all funding for the cultural arts? I’m sure the educated among us in Buckhead is starving for some classier entertainment options in Buckhead. Theater thrives in cities like Chicago and DC. Why can’t it happen here? The lack of real entertainment options in Buckhead is rediculous.
@Urbanist
“What I have said, in multiple places, at multiple times, is that the city of Atlanta could go a long way to deterring the type of criminal activity that occurs, if it was more thoughtful with respect to how they developed the city.”
Ah, I see. The “gangsta” element is totally blameless. They can’t help but shoot people and lower property values because Atlanta tried to make nice developments. Got it.
“Nobody is trying to give anyone a pass”
You’d be a dream judge in the ghetto.
“Just because I condemn people who use race as their basis for criticism and finger-pointing doesn’t mean I don’t think people should be held accountable for their actions. I just think the people who use race as an accusation, or an excuse, are at the lowest rungs of the intellectual totem pole…yes, that means you.”
No, you’re a simpleton ostrich, who likes to blame everyone else because it makes you feel morally superior. Meanwhile, the city is on fire, but you can feel good about yourself because you don’t point fingers where they belong. Unreal, unrealistic and bush league. Your mentality is major reason Atlanta resembles Detroit more than Chicago.
“I know you’d like to think that I’m uber PC”
You are.
“and that I want the world to bear the burden an individuals actions”
You do.
“as it would serve your feeble-minded purpose of just pointing the finger, and calling names,”
While you thumb your nose at gay-centered entertainment while excusing violent, ghetto thug establishments. What a hypocrite and apparent homophobe.
Try staying somewhat consistent with your B.S. It’ll make you somewhat less laughable.
@ Palin – I specifically said in my response that they should be responsible for their own actions. How is that calling anyone blameless?
Blame everyone else? You mean by making suggestions about things that could be done to make the city a better, and safer place? That’s not blaming anyone, that’s providing constructive commentary – albeit with a heavy dose of sarcasm and snide remarks which piss some people off.
I’m not thumbing my nose at “gay-centered entertainment” at all. I was thumbing my nose as “strip-club entertainment”. It had nothing to do with the gender. If this place would have been turned into another female strip club, my response would have been the same. Do you and JT consult each other before making shockingly simplistic accusations, or is it possible that there are actually two people out there that function with such a limited capacity. And just to be clear, I’ve never “excused” any ghetto-thug establishments.
I’m pretty sure this commentary is over, and is just taking up time and space right now, unless anyone else has something to say about Atlanta adding yet another strip club…
@Urbanist
“Do you and JT consult each other before making shockingly simplistic accusations, or is it possible that there are actually two people out there that function with such a limited capacity.”
Ah, the elitist bon vivant of Atlanta development punditry – self-annointed, of course – can’t imagine that multiple individuals find his schtick trite, hypocritical, homophobic and risible.
The obvious limited capacity on display is your laughable lack of self awareness.
Be gone, old fool. Go have a drink at Wet Willies and show how open minded your are. Be sure to wear a bulletproof vest.
Since when was Cheshire Bridge located in Buckhead? This is a like a Real Housewives of Atlanta (Sugarloaf) title. I would more consider it more N Druid Hills than Buckhead.
They were advertising employment on Craigslist for this a WHILE ago, so this is not real news. It was advertised as a gay male strip club. On the main website, the Bliss clubs vary depending on location – I believe this is going to just be men. Also, I know plenty of educated people who go to SR and will probably go to Bliss since its closer to other gay bars, rather than driving to “West Midtown”.
I should start a drinking game based on how many comments it takes for someone to say something racist in any given post. Seriously you guys.
@Sarah Palin Bachman Numbskull, not everyone is going to agree with your racist bs, and URBANIST, I know you are just defending yourself but you should know better than anyone not to feed the trolls.
Definitely not Buckhead. BUT, 500% more people than live in Buckhead say they live in Buckhead, so it is completely normal to call Cheshire Bridge part of Buckhead, LoL.
The area could not be more fitting for another strip club and I am sure the gay community is excited to have another establishment to frequent considering the closing of so many gay establishments in recent memory (and the proliferation of establishments that cater to other diverse groups). Times Square had more peep shows and strip clubs in the 80s and early 90s than all of metro Atlanta, so I’m pretty sure we don’t have an over-abundance yet (and Tampa has more strip clubs, as well). At least ours are ranked, hahaha.
The recent post “wars” have really been something. I use my real name so I wouldn’t be caught dead in any of the recent conversations no matter what side of the issue I am on, but they make for interesting reads. Now I’ll be an hour late to work because of the whole Kirkwood battle!
Time Square was in the middle of a city of 8mm people, so per capita, they weren’t even close to Atlanta. I cant remember where I heard it, but a few years ago, I had heard somewhere that Atlanta has more strip clubs – per capita – than any other city. Time Square also had an abundance of strip clubs in the 80’s & 90’s, when NYC was mired in crime. When NYC turned into a safe, clean(er), and more prosperous city, all of that vanished.
Atlanta is unique in that the area that can technically be called “the city” is so huge, that you have a lot of dead pockets (by dead, I just mean poorly developed areas) all over the place – Cheshire being one of them. If Atlanta focused on developing a core (starting in Downtown/Midtown as the most logical place), and then spread from that core, gradually and organically, the bad/dangerous elements would gradually get pushed further and further to the fringe, or simply go out of business. This has been happening in NYC since the early 90’s – Soho turned the LES into a popular area, the LES turned/is turning Alphabet City into a popular area, etc. Neighborhoods that were rejuvenated and expanded slowly, with the available demand, eventually took over more blighted areas….they all did this with a lot of assistance from the city government as well.
Cheshire Bridge has some of the oldest/best/most successful restaurants in the city (Nino’s, Alfredo’s, Red Snapper, Colonnade, Little Bangkok, Nakatos are all within like 1 mile of each other, and some have been open for ever, compare this to any other part of atlanta). Are these the “bad/dangerous elements” that you wish would “gradually get pushed further to the fringe, or simply go out of business”? I assume by calling it a ‘dead area’ you just mean there aren’t 25 story bland midrises built up yet??
“Havn’t we reached the full saturation point yet?”
Yeah, if you consider 1 gay strip club in Atlanta (one of the gayest cities in the USA) the *full saturation point*, then I guess we have reached the full saturation point already…*eye roll*
Some of the oldest and best restaurants that are scattered along fractured development that plays host to a lot of adult stores, strip clubs, etc. It’s pretty obvious that these restaurants aren’t bad or dangerous elements, however, they are located amongst a lot of them. If the owners of these places want to stay where they are, nobody is forcing them to move. However, I would imagine that if Atlanta focused it’s attention inward, they might consider relocating to new areas, where business could be better.
“Dead area” has nothing to do with bland mid-rises. While I agree that much of Atlanta’s denser development is pretty boring (as a result of pretty much one developer having constructed the majority of Atlanta’s high/mid-rise buildings over the past couple of years, which I’ve argued against elsewhere), I do believe that the lack of density plays a part in the lack of attraction to areas like Cheshire.
So this nightclub is really just a repackaged 24K club. After 24K got raided and a lot of people got hauled off to jail they just changed the name. The club does not face Cheshire Bridge, it faces that alley that accesses the old Varsity Junior parking lot. That back parking lot is so sketchy.
At least it’s not another Magic City.
Another example I saw the other day off Piedmont across from Axiom Salon near the intersection with Cheshire Bridge….Weave Express of Buckhead is not in Buckhead at all….people need to learn where Buckhead is and where it is not.
I give it a couple months max. SR is an establishment that knows what it is doing, this is just a straight club that puts the gay moniker on itself at 9pm to get gay cash. It’s like in college towns when the local olive garden turns into a bar at night by turning the lights down, putting the chairs and tables up and playing some college music. It’s still an olive garden they are just not serving bread sticks, just watered down beers. You can’t serve the gay community $6 dixie cup sized drinks, have a poor set up for traffic flow and socializing and marginal dancers and expect to thrive. More power to them if they can last it out, but they really should have soft opened for some time before rushing to press with opening fully.
“lack of attraction” eye of the beholder, etc. Lots of people find Cheshire attractive. The Heights at Cheshire is one of the most popular apartment complexes for gay men (not sure why, but it is). Cheshire has several attractive features. I dont think every street in Atlanta needs to look like cookie cutter church family-esque. I never feel unsafe walking down cheshire.. not sure what the fuss is about.
A GaTech City Planning studio from 2009 already created a master plan for the Cheshire corridor for a group of its residents wanting more than strip clubs. Im not sure if they plan to create a TAD to implement it (I doubt it since the businesses likely know itll be the end of them) but the residents might band to create a CID. That would be funny if a TAD and CID were created and they battled each other lol. But if Cheshire were so awful, people wouldnt be moving there (and they are) again not sure why but they are.
“You can’t serve the gay community $6 dixie cup sized drinks, have a poor set up for traffic flow and socializing and marginal dancers and expect to thrive.”
…except that seems to work quite well just down the street at BJ Roosters.
So, I dropped by.
And liked it a lot.
Well dressed doormen in coats and ties, polite parking valets, and certainly a more upscale male strip club experience than anything I’ve seen in Atlanta – or elsewhere.
The cover is substantial and drinks aren’t cheap, but the prices for the various dances were more reasonable than I remember from The Other Place. And the shower dancer just about made my eyes pop out of my head.
The manager checked back to ask if I was having a good time.
Dancers walked up to me and said, “We’re glad you’re here.”
Well of course they’re glad I’m here – I have a wallet. But they at least go through the niceties to making people feel welcome, instead of just crudely dry humping you in hopes of scoring a lap dance. Somebody in mgmt here has been to hospitality school.
This is an upgrade. If Atlanta is entitled to have a Cheetah, it’s certainly entitled to have something like this. It’s as pleasant and responsible an adult establishment as you’re likely to find in the southeast.
@ urbanist … YOU ROCK. and I totally got your comment the first time. You were not being an ass at all.
That’s why we call it “The Bridge” Chesire is the best road in this whole city, it’s got soul. It’s where the real people hang out, eat (at Johnny’s or the Colanade for ex) and make a mess of things.
It’s sure not Buckhead. In fact, it’s a convenient barrier of it.
The male strip club Bliss originally was a female strip club. It then was turned to Bliss which was a gay male strip in Atlanta. That club didn’t make it either and now it is back to being a gentlemens club. Not sure if that one will have better luck or not but I guess we’ll see. What most people in Atlanta don’t know is that you can order most of these strippers straight from the strip club to be delivered to your party instead of having to go out hoping to find a good club, on a good night and get drunk without going too broke or getting into trouble!