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Of course there are strip clubs in Atlantic City. When Scores opened in September, it created a minor stir. That’ll change around the Fourth of July weekend. I stayed at Revel during my trip, and it was busy, but not crazy. The bartender said that weeknights were so-so this time of year, but Friday and Saturday nights are packed - all shore-typical. When I came back to the deck after dinner, things looked about the same except a few dancers were sitting on the couches, talking.

They smoked cloves, drank whiskey, and hit on the bartender, a redhead wearing a skin-tight white tank, black briefs and fishnets - really, what you’d find in about any casino bar. When the older guys left, two 21-year-olds from Syracuse took their place. A couple kept walking out of the strip club and onto the deck to smoke. A few older guys still in their beach gear were at the bar eating burgers. That’s not surprising given that I was there on a Wednesday in June on a day when the temperature nearly hit 100. The crowd was relatively light when I stopped by the first time around 7:30 p.m. It was more outdoor than the new Margaritaville bar up the boardwalk at Resorts. The only difference, when I was there, was a few platforms on which I assumed there’d be dancing. Of course there was thumping club mix, and fancy lights.

The bulk of the space was made up of clusters of couches. It looks like any other outdoor venue: long bar with TVs showing ESPN, and craft beers on tap (I had a Yards Love Stout and a Curious Traveler, $6 each, which isn’t bad considering I paid $3 for a hot tea and $3.25 for orange juice at Revel). The deck is right outside the club, on the south end of the building - right over the Hard Rock Cafe. The strip club (they would prefer I call it a gentleman’s club, but I’m going to go ahead with “strip”) is on the second floor of the Taj Mahal, facing the ocean, though obviously you couldn’t peek inside. So of course I had to check it out, which I did on Wednesday night. In May, they took over part of the Taj Mahal’s deck and opened an outdoor sports bar. In September, an outpost of Scores, a strip club chain, opened in the Taj Mahal.

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