I decided to write this journal because of the great picture flydragon took of the cabarett showgirls. It reminded me of when I was young and my mom and her "wife" who I call my stepmom had a very close circle of friends. In a bar in Tampa called Rene's (Rene was like a father figure to me strong, and good business man but friendly and approachable like an uncle that's you're not related to but anyway) they would all congregate there because it was huge! It had 4 bars in it when you walked in a local like "cheers " square bar, behind that was a sports bar with projection screen tv, off to the left of the main bar was the dance floor bar and stage (I'll get back to that in a minute), then next to that was the outdoor pool and pool bar. yes, this place had it's own out door pool which was surronded by a wall like 8 ft high.  The dance floor and stage is where they would stage these elaborate drag shows. I mean elaborate as in multi-thousand dollar gowns, choreographer on staff and huge shows. In florida it is refferd to as the golden age of drag. Granted this is the standard for cabarett shows in Thailand. So I'm often asked wasn't that weird growing up around that? The answer is ...No ..not weird definitely interesting though lol

hooo Thx Paul

i wish i could see this place

memory is maybe the best camera we have

nice story also with a lot picture

last time I was there after rene died was really down and shows had no backing nothing like when I was young sad to see something you remember seem like junk

it remind me the movie color of the money do you know about ?

And I though sniffing glue and sitting in a field was far out as a kid.