I wonder what the Richards/Helmcken babes of 40 years ago are doing now, mostly in their 60's and early 70's
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So many good nights in the Arch. $20 private dances ftw.
Those YouTube videos can at least initiate a non-street-scene person to a street scene, relative to this business, but they in no way replicate the casual nature of what were almost always complete stunners generously distributed around a complete central downtown Vancouver block bordered on two sides by Richards and Helmcken.
The Seattle videos show skimpy attire and women who have lost most of their self-consciousness (and some of their mere consciousness too?), but the scenes in Vancouver in the 1980's are paralleled by so very little that I've ever witnessed elsewhere in this biz.
Maybe if you took the high- high-end online escort services where the likes of Ashley Dupree catered to Eliot Spitzer, and took women of that seeming (level of outward presentation, both physically and in terms of attire)... and distributed them densely around a single, downtown city block. Then took away any apparent interest by law enforcement in their activities, and then took away from obvious sight any tangent criminal activity by (pimps or the like)... and basically removed/kept visible crime from the area.
Then add all of the natural male interest in just wanting to get a look, and the traffic jams such environs would create... add in the strip club across the street, and Madam Cleo's around the corner... and then stir and present after dark (in a place where "dark" sometimes arrives at 4:30pm)... and you have an accurate sense for the downtown high track in 1980's Vancouver.
The ladies would typically remain in their spots, so to be a young adult male just walking around that square block several times in succession made for truly incredible scenery. If you got tired, you could duck into the little diner and watch that entire world swirl around you both inside and outside.
The Seattle YouTube environs reappeared in recent years because a loitering law, long the main inspiration for LE to move the ladies away from the strip, was repealed because it was steadily used in ways that impacted POC in greater proportions than it did the rest of the population. For this reason, large corporation-like entities have gone from California to Seattle to take over the strip, with pimps working mostly behind the scenes with their various stables of young women.
I'd say that the visible differences might be a function of the internet, really, because today's women have already known their nudies to travel through the student body, so it really is nothing to be out strutting down a highway wearing almost nothing - particularly in a town that is new to you where nobody knows you at all.
In 1980's Vancouver the women were more typically dressed like poised young office-job interviewees, whose physical beauty just might have won them the positions.
If you randomly wore those clothes on the Seattle YouTube set today, you'd probably be run off by the stables of pimped women, physically attacked by both the other women and by men who regularly troll the area in the shadows... and probably picked-up for tricks by the pimps who run the other stables, in a recruiting exercise.
The mere density of the working girls on those long-ago streets was also a safety factor as well as a scenic wonderland. If that environment were prevalent today, every square foot of the stroll would surely be covered by multiple cameras operating 24/7 and further assuring relative safety of all of those around.
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Strip bars back in the day - who remembers Strawberry Angel and the talent she demonstrated on stage. 
