Aaah to be young!
celest said:
really?
ive always wondered if there are places sps's go to pick up... seems more like a sceene from a movie than real life, but i am rver curious

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how would that go anyways? how does one be discrete enough but obvious enough, if you know what i mean?
Well, my dear Celest (I am old and I can be just a bit patronizing LOL), before the Inernet and before the free papers like NOW, bars -- especially hotel bars --used to be the places to go.
They ranged from the low end like the Silver Dollar on Spadina to the Royal York and the Park Plaza. There were some in the middle like the old Brownstone on Charles St. (now Comfort Hotel)
It could be assumed that any lady sitting alone at the bar was likely working. First, there was a bit of eye contact, then "Can I buy you a drink?" and then a conversation.
It was (and is) illegal, of course and once in a while the "morality" cops would entrap one of the ladies. The hotels tolerated it, some even prospered by renting rooms upstairs.
There are rumours still that some high-end ladies rent suites at the Four Seasons during the film festival and offer dates at 1,000 a session. I think that is an urban myth. How do you tell them from the "civilians?" The film guys -- even the fat old ones -- get freebies from young hopefuls
As for the Valhalla and Chichn Deli, forget it.
The Inernet is the place to be.
My war story for the day.