This is a huge club as HC’s go, about 5,000 square feet. When you enter the club, you are facing north and first you go through a little alcove about six feet long. As you enter the inner door, you see the cashier to your left (west). As you face north, you see the area where the non-dancing hostesses sit. It used to be enclosed but is now open by requirement of the Sheriff’s Dept. To the west of this area is the snack bar.

Like the other COI clubs, they use the Starlight-type “maitre d’” concept.  You identify the girl you want to dance with and one of the staff goes and gets her for you. She goes to the cashier and clocks in and the two of you are off. As you face north at the cashier's area, if you turn to the right (east), you see a dance floor at the east end of the club. It is about the same size as the Fantasy dance floor. There are several sitting areas for couples and they have varying levels of illumination.

There are sitting areas north and south of the dance floor.  There is one more sitting area west of the sitting area south of the dance floor and east of the entrance. To the west of this area and east of the entrance another sitting area has been converted into a poolroom. Looking west from the entrance, there is another sitting area at the west end of the club. This is the TV room and is probably the darkest area of the club. All of the sitting areas have cameras, although you can’t see them.

The club has only been open a little over two years and already has gone through two ownership and format changes. When the club first opened it was an integrated club. As a result of an LE harassment campaign, the original owner decided to switch to a Latino format. He also installed cameras and floor lamps like they have at Fantasy.  Last year he sold the club to two partners, an older American man and a younger Asian man. They changed the club back to the original integrated format.

Earlier this year the Asian partner sold his interest to the remaining former owners of Dreamland. For those of you familiar with the ex-Dreamland owners, Joe, Johnny, and Sammy (the tall, thin Asian guy who owned the club during its brief, post-HC pool hall era) are now all partners in the club. Pepe, who was also a partner at one time, has since left to pursue a career in computers.

Unfortunately, the club isn’t anything like Dreamland used to be.  It never seems to have gotten past the Catch-22 situation that most new clubs go through: Not enough girls to bring in customers in significant numbers, not enough customers to keep the girls busy enough that it’s worth their while to stay. On busy nights they’ll have only half as many girls as the other COI clubs.