Hong Kong
The Bottoms Up Club was a girlie bar in Hong Kong. The bar became notorious for its appearance in the 1974 James Bond film "The Man with the Golden Gun". The interior of the club evoked the interior of the club as seen in the film.
History
The Club opened in the basement of Mohan's Building at 14 Hankow Road in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, in March or May 1971. One of its early managers was Pat Sephton, a former Windmill model . A 1994 court ruling requested it to remove its naked-buttocks neon sign, and to have its naked dancers wear bras or negligees. The Tsim Sha Tsui location closed in April 2004. Rising rents were cited as possible reasons for the closure. The Club re-opened at the first floor of David House, 37–39 Lockhart Road in Wan Chai in May 2004, this time mainly as a sports bar, with one of the original bars being recreated in a back room.
The club closed down in July 2009.
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In BackDrop lore
In the late 1970's, Tom (a Backdrop member) traveled to Hong Kong. He was so taken with the place, he brought several boxes of matches with the "Bottoms Up" logo printed on them.
He would often place a book of matches on tables of restaurants just to see the reactions of waitresses and other clients of the restaurant.
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