Pink Pony
About this time last year, PG was following the effort to create a city of Brookhaven. It was a nasty affair, with racially charged mailers, legal complaints, and enough mud slung to cover the Capital City Club . The effort passed, the city was created, and J. Max Davis elected mayor. PG was disgusted, and quit paying attention.
It turns out one of the first moves by the new city was a prohibition on “the serving of alcoholic beverages at a nude dancing establishment.” The intended victim of this move was a large dancing emporium known as the Pink Pony. The PP is one of the larger adult venues in the Atlanta area. The club can afford lawyers, and has filed suit against the city. The ban on alcohol sales will not be enforced until courts rule on the suit.
This lawsuit is going to be expensive to defend. While considering whether, or not, to create the new city, there was much speculation regarding finances. Some said the city was going to have enough money to operate. Some were renaming it Broke-haven. The studies that showed the new city could function used the revenue from the Pink Pony as part of the tax base. These studies probably did not consider the double whammy of losing that revenue, and fighting an expensive legal battle.
The Pink Pony is on Buford Hiway, at the southern fringe of the new city. Some say the boundaries were drawn to include this establishment. PP is in a business district, far away from the mansions of historic Brookhaven, and the mcmansions of Ashford Park. PP is down the hill from Cross Keys High School, which should enable teachers to get part time jobs as exotic dancers.
Pictures today are from “The Special Collections and Archives,Georgia State University Library”.
Chamblee54 
What an interesting story – I’d be curious to see how things turn out. It sounds like perhaps folks didn’t think everything all the way through… Thanks so much for linking up today! ~Christine, Trifecta Guest Judge
love the photos! nice writing too.
best,
MOV
Teachers moonlighting as exotic dancers – a strangely pleasant idea! Great writing & I loved the photographs too
“PP is down the hill from Cross Keys High School, which should enable teachers to get part time jobs as exotic dancers” Try as I might I just got the image of some of my old teachers as exotic dancers. It’s not a pretty sight!
Anatomy teachers would probably rock the stage.
I wonder what they would do at the Pink Pony if you stripped to your birthday suit to eat the dinner you ordered?
[…] the Brookhaven City Council election meetings that PG has seen, the Pink Pony has a been a topic of discussion. Almost nobody wants the city to spend money trying to shut down […]