"I remember going to calls there for fights between patrons and employees. Rich Krogh, a King County Police administrator assigned to Woodinville.
The club had a clean reputation, Lindner says: "Goodtime Charley's was enough of a novelty in Woodinville that he did fairly well."īut the club had its moments, recalls Sgt. In Woodinville, Charles Puzzo operated Goodtime Charley's, a topless-dance club, from 1973 until the mid-1980s. He was convicted in federal court in 1981 on three counts of income-tax evasion.Īssociates of Colacurcio's son, Frank Jr., today run Babe's, the male strip joint in Factoria, and Papagayo's, the topless-dance bar in Overlake. was indicted by a federal grand jury for skimming profits at that club and at Federal Way's Brass Tiger. Not long after it shut down, operator Frank Colacurcio Sr. The club was repeatedly cited for allowing dancers to rub against patrons, for other lewd conduct, and for liquor-law violations. Today, Bothell's adult-entertainment ordinance allows adult entertainment along state Highway 522.īig Fannie Annie danced at the Bavarian Gardens, a Factoria nightclub that opened in the mid-1970s and closed in 1980 when it lost its lease. The owners didn't appeal, and that was the end of Mama Hoopah's. In June 1982, city officials pulled the club's business license, because the owners didn't have a permit to operate an adult dance club. Today, that kind of touching is routine, Lindner says. What made it so "dirty" to many was the amount of contact between dancers and patrons. Fights broke out inside and outside the club. Police made arrests at Mama Hoopah's for prostitution, lewd conduct, sale and possession of drugs, and selling alcohol without a liquor license. "There was definitely nude entertainment going on - for customers, at the table," Malet says. Dan Malet - they put a readerboard out front advertising topless dancers. But they also made no effort to disguise what they were doing, says Bothell Police Lt. When owners James and Pam Dougal opened the soda-pop bar in January 1982, they made no mention of topless dancing in their business application. "At the time, it was the ultimate dirty club," recalls King County Police Sgt. Perhaps the most infamous spot was the short-lived Mama Hoopah's, a Bothell topless bar open for six months in 1982 before the city shut it down. Escalating property values and state and local regulations forced them out of business. For years in the early 1980s, topless clubs survived here.
And Factoria's Bavarian Gardens featured a 400-pound go-go dancer named Big Fannie Annie.Īdult entertainment is nothing new on the Eastside.
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