{"id":18076,"date":"2020-11-02T21:49:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T04:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/?p=18076"},"modified":"2020-11-02T22:23:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T05:23:27","slug":"pre-pandemic-stripclub-review-jumbos-clownroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2020\/11\/02\/pre-pandemic-stripclub-review-jumbos-clownroom\/","title":{"rendered":"pre-pandemic stripclub review: Jumbo’s Clownroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Classic Hollywood]<\/p>\n

Jumbo\u2019s Clownroom Stripclub review<\/h1>\n

5153 Hollywood Blvd.
\nLos Angeles, CA 90027
\nPhone: 213-666-1187<\/h2>\n

Visited: Sunday 9-29-19, 8:30 p.m.
\n$pent: $10<\/p>\n

\"Jumbos<\/a>
Jumbos Clownroom daytime photo, from Google.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Reviewer X<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

[This is a repost from a social media site that I had uploaded to last year shortly after visiting Jumbo’s. It had been posted on the press blog at LesRevue which was recently deleted in order to reduce file storage while making a server migration.]<\/em><\/p>\n

I was in Hollywood, going to drive down to San Diego, and didn\u2019t want to drink any alcohol so after doing some top secret reviewer business in L.A. I stopped into Jumbo\u2019s Clownroom for a stripclub coffee. It was $5 and I had ten. I tipped the bartender and one of the dancers the other five bills. Christine the bartender was friendly and so was the dancer although I didn\u2019t ask her name. I sat next to the jukebox where this dancer, whose dance I tipped, a really thin tallish brunette (she had on high stilettos), asked me what my Spotify was as she set up her dance on the jukebox to my left, and told me excitedly she was doing a set with a \u201cfire\u201d theme. I\u2019m normally a Pandora guy, so I didn\u2019t remember what was on my old Spotify.<\/p>\n

I stayed around for about 20 minutes, maybe half an hour or four dancers, drank my coffee and one free refill before leaving wired for the two hour drive.<\/p>\n

Jumbo\u2019s is a great place for this type of quick stop. No cover at the door, one small room with a single stage against the wall to the right as you walk in with the bar along the left. I\u2019ve always noticed a really friendly vibe from the employees and even sometimes the crowd. It\u2019s an intimate neighborhood dive where the hot girls on staff dance in bikinis.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve seen plenty of couples there too in the handful of busy nights I\u2019ve been in. I\u2019m guessing there\u2019s a lot of industry types from the Hollywood media scene that go. On this night some well-)dressed north-of-300-pound guy sat two stools away from me at the corner of the bar (skinny Spotify girl set up between us) and was getting big bills changed into stacks of ones to throw onto the stage. I think Courtney Love listed Jumbo\u2019s Clownroom on her Twitter as where she\u2019s \u201cfrom\u201d haha, last time I checked.<\/p>\n

Jumbo\u2019s drawback? The place is on a small strip mall in the middle of a really crowded residential neighborhood with scarce parking even on a Sunday like tonight. The $7 that they charge in the parking lot out front might be a good deal unless you\u2019re willing to drive around looking ando eventually walk three blocks like I did. On the plus side the drinks I\u2019ve had are very strong. They don\u2019t skimp here.<\/p>\n

Normally I\u2019m not interested in bikini bars (it\u2019s like what\u2019s the point?) but the girls at Jumbo\u2019s are often hot (9\/10) and can be really great dancers when there\u2019s an appreciative crowd, talking feature dancer visiting-porn-star quality here. High entertainment value.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going long, I know. But I\u2019ll underscore, the thing about Jumbo\u2019s Clown Room is that you don\u2019t go there expecting an epic lap dance, or any nudity. You go there to drink and watch the girls dance. Maybe if you\u2019re lucky you\u2019ll have some friendly conversation. If you come there with friends then you can really have a good time. It\u2019s a bikini bar not a real strip club, but it might be the friendliest one around, and it\u2019s affordable. This place is not a rip-off at all, with no door cover, and you\u2019re never hassled for tips.<\/p>\n

Before this night the last time I was in was maybe a year-and-a-half ago and whoever the bartender was at that time she made my gin and tonics pretty much all gin with just a splash of quinine tonic water for taste and a little wedge of lime for looks. I had three of those and at the end of the night walked back to my van parked on Normandie Avenue to sleep in the back because I didn\u2019t dare drive away. The Jumbo\u2019s dancers are often some of the best in town, and for a city like Los Angeles that\u2019s saying a lot. Stop in again. Jumbo\u2019s Clown Room is more like a cult then a bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Classic Hollywood] Jumbo\u2019s Clownroom Stripclub review 5153 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90027 Phone: 213-666-1187 Visited: Sunday 9-29-19, 8:30 p.m. $pent: $10 By Reviewer X [This is a repost from a social media site that I had uploaded to last year shortly after visiting Jumbo’s. It had been posted on the press blog at LesRevue which was recently deleted in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20553,"url":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2025\/09\/20\/shareable-assets-from-my-substack-pdx-stripclub-review-post\/","url_meta":{"origin":18076,"position":0},"title":"Shareable assets from my Substack: PDX stripclub review post","author":"Reviewer Rob","date":"September 20, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"[Nightlife] Casa Diablo strip club review Portland [I like my Substack for a few reasons but one of the big ones is it creates these images that are \"shareable assets\" for each post. 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