Hustler Bars...I miss them!

[Guest tomcal]

I recently read a article about "hustler bars" and it made me a little nostalgic for them!

I came out in 1995 and my bf at the time and I went to a birthday party a friend was having at the original NUMBERS in L.A. on Sunset Blvd. It was my first time in a rentboy bar and I was mesmorized by the guys I saw! It was within a year or so after that original trip that Numbers Bar moved to Santa Monica Blvd in Weho and I went there my 2nd time and hired my first guy out of there, a tall blonde dutch guy who was in the country and had overstayed his visa and needed to make cash without having to show a social security number!

But..more importantly in the years following around 2002 or 2003 I met several of the current posters on here and we started meeting up for "hooboy" dinners, i.e. Townie, Expat, JKane, Beguiled and several other posters from the old hooboy site.

In 1996 I started traveling to NYC 8 - 10 times a year for business and "discovered" Stellas and the Gaiety! I loved Stellas!! I met Lucky for the first time one night there. In the winter time I would stay at the Edison Hotel because if you went out the hotel's 46th st. exit and turned left and walked a 100' and be at the Gaiety or walk out the hotel's 47th st. exit and take a left and walk a 100' to Stella's and didnt have to worry about the cold weather and made it very easy to take guys back to your hotel and make a return trip a hour later! :-) I really miss those days, much more fun then searching internet ads/rentboy

Unfortunately hustler bars are another casualty of the Internet, although there are still two of them operating in Porto Alegre Brazil and in Prague.

[Guest EXPAT]

I couldn't agree more. My first experience was in NYC at ROUNDS. I really enjoyed that bar and meeting so many very interesting boys for hire. I then discovered the Gaiety after I met my very first overnight escort a strip bar in Fort Lauderdale. I actually think all of those events happened within a two week period of each other so I'm not sure which happened first. Then after I started traveling frequently to Los Angeles from NYC on business, I discovered Numbers in the old location and then to the new location as it opened. Even though Numbers tried to reinvent itself a few times as Digits etc, it never really had the zeal of the original Numbers.

I guess the internet has ruined any chance for these types of bars again. But I loved the idea of watching the boys work the crowd and interacting with them. Ah, those were the days my friend. . . .

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[Guest Paragon]

The original Numbers, and Rounds, were among the great classic hustler bars.Cowboys and Cowgirls never quite did it for me. I feel that the internet did them all in, although I agree that other factors contributed. And now it's Stella's and The Gaiety that we who knew them miss so much. i doubt that those days will ever be seen again.

[TotallyOz]

My first was the Gaiety and then Stella's and then Cats. There was another one on like 41 close to the Port Authority that was a bit rougher in the 90's. I can't remember the name. There was also a nice TS bar in Hell's Kitchen that would get an interesting crowd.

I miss all those places. Good memories. Tom, if you were in Stella's in the 90's, we must have met as I was there 5 nights a week. LOL

[Guest EXPAT]

I went to Stella's in the 90's too but thought it was too much of a rough crowd for me. But I was probably there too when you were both there.

By the way, has the Townhouse become anything like a Hustler bar at all? I haven't been there in years but just wondered.

[Guest zipperzone]

Not exactly hustler bars but always good for an "interesting" time in NYC...

The Toilet & The Mineshaft.

[Guest EXPAT]

The Toilet?

[Guest CharliePS]

Not exactly hustler bars but always good for an "interesting" time in NYC...

The Toilet & The Mineshaft.

Now you are bringing tears to my eyes.

[Guest CharliePS]

The Toilet?

As in, "Excuse me, I need to go to the Toilet." It was a huge, rambling club in an old warehouse at 14th St and 9th Ave, probably million dollar condos now. The manager, Peter Pan, was a gorgeous hunk with whom I spent a wild night at the Everard Baths in the 1960s.Ah, what sentimental memories!

[Theolover]

nice memories for sure..I missed out on a lot of these but NY sure was fun

[Guest AlwaysLookin]

Oh for the good old days! LOL I get an instant hard-on when someone mentions CATS BAR in NYC.