Have you been a bad boy or girl?

[Jetrock]

Okay, here's a question--if you use mashed-up nudie magazines in the papier-mache' for your scenery, what is the rating of your layout? I guess it depends on how thick a layer of plaster you put over them...

If you want a list of real bars, vsmith, here's a list of real bars that existed in Sacramento in 1961 and 1967, rudely lifted from my friend Dave Smith's "Sacramento: City of a Beer" webpage (www.nokilli.com/sacto/)--I'm going to model the King of Clubs. Not all are winners, but there might be some food for thought here...

The 1961 List:

* Achilles Heel (Piano bar nightly)
* Branding Iron
* Can-Can Club
* The Chukker
* King of Clubs
* Club 4
* Club 16
* Club 21
* Club 26
* Club 65
* Club Delta
* The Corker
* Day and Night Bar
* Donner Club
* Fore 'n' Aft Club
* The Glacier
* Happy Time Pete's
* Hawaiian Hut
* Hinkey Dinkey Cafe
* Howdy Club
* The Loading Chute
* The Coral Reef
* Mark Twain Club
* Mel-o-dee Club
* Mister Patches
* Moderne Club
* Movie Club
* Pall Mall
* Panther Room
* The Playroom
* Red Fox
* Restless Guns
* Shangri-La Club
* Square Deal Cafe
* Star Cafe
* Stardust Room
* Stark Club (yes, Stark, not Stork)
* Surf Room
* Tan-Tan Cafe
* Top Hat
* Trophy Room
* Tropicana
* Velvet Hammer
* Velvet Slipper
* Western Cafe
* White House
* Zombie Hut

The 1967 List:

* A Go-Go Club
* Antonina's
* The Berry Patch
* The Blue Bird
* The Body Shop
* Circus Tent
* Cleopatra
* Club Mai Tai
* Club Maverick
* Cow Town
* Crown Club
* Detour In
* Doll House
* Doubleplay
* The Gay Lantern
* Gay Ninety's Room
* The Gilded Cage ("variety entertainment, comics, girl dancers, singers, floor shows")
* The Gold Slipper
* The Golden Horse
* Joker Club
* KoKoMo Inn
* Kolonial Klub
* Lanai Walnut Room
* Lefty's Playboy
* Lunar Station
* Mecca Club
* Mr. Ed's (organ bar)
* The New Mo Mo Club
* Music Inn
* Outpost
* Pagoda Cocktail Lounge
* Pal's Club
* Piccadilly
* Pied Piper
* The Pink Slip
* Ton's Playgirl Club ("easy to find, hard to leave")
* The Playmate Lounge
* Poor Vic's
* The Recess Room
* The Red Knight
* TNT Club
* The Diddly
* Tiki Cocktail Lounge
* Tiny's Cocktail Lounge
* Tower Lounge
* Travelers Lounge and Club
* The Turf ("where strangers make friends")
* Zorba the Greek

[on30francisco]

Mine is basically G to PG rated but I do have some scenes depicting intoxicated men by a saloon, a hobo camp, and a "lady of the evening." I never thought of putting adult scenes on my layout but I have nothing against people that do.

[Anonymous]

I always thought my layout would be like an R Rated comedy. With Bizzare and wild, sometimes insane but almost always humorous scenes scattered around the layout.

A few examples.

Red Lights in all the sleeping cars

"Honest Carr's Used Johns"- Great Deals on Reliable Family Toilets. (Picture a lot with neatly lined up toilets being examined by Value seaking couples)

The movie "American Pie" playing at the drive in movie. (Not quite in sink with my late 60s time frame. But a movie that would be X-rated given the time frame.)

The "High-Flyer's Night club. Where all the patrons are presumably stoned as everyone is Naked and standing on the cealing. (Just picture an entire room turned upside down)

A red light district. I am still out if I want to sugar coat it or get vivid imagry.

And this Idea I am stealing off of a layout I saw on a video. (Title escapes me at the moment) Prophylactic-Pyrotecnics. "Fireworks for that special someone"

Just some of my zaney ideas.

James.

[green_elite_cab]

the closest thing i have to anything naughty n my layou tout is a WW2 B-24 bomber modeled in a model mueseum after "The Dragon and Its Tail" i've even seen a real B-24 from teh Collins foundation with one side painted as the plane i mentioned. since it was buzzing my town at a low enough altude for me to see the pilot, i'm thank full the side with teh girl was facing the woods....... it visted my local airport. it seems parents either didn't know or didn't care, but the Dragon and its tail is a famous b-24 so i guess it escapes this one. after all, its educational. she wasn't drawn that great anyway, lol

also, never bring your kids to the USAF mueseum in ohio. that was interesting.

[vsmith]

Based on Jetrocks 1950's -60's nightclub list....

Looking at this list I surprised at just how different the take on the name is today vs yesteryear. Today some of these names would be right at home in L.A.'s vibrant Club scene and I would NOT want to go into anything today with some of these names...

Gay bars:
* Achilles Heel (Piano bar nightly)
* Branding Iron
* The Corker
* Day and Night Bar
* Fore 'n' Aft Club (holy smokes is this a red flag!)
* The Loading Chute (see above)
* Mister Patches
* The Playroom
* Restless Guns
* Velvet Hammer
* Velvet Slipper

The 1967 List:

* The Body Shop (red flag if theres a guy on the marque!)
* The Gay Lantern (oh boy need I say anything?)
* Gay Ninety's Room
* The Gilded Cage ( La Cage la Faux? [sp] )
* The Recess Room
* The Diddly

Stripper bars:
* Branding Iron
* Can-Can Club
* Fore 'n' Aft Club
* Mel-o-dee Club
* Moderne Club
* Pall Mall
* Panther Room
* The Playroom
* Red Fox
* Restless Guns
* Shangri-La Club
* Trophy Room
* Tropicana
* Velvet Hammer
* Velvet Slipper

The 1967 List:
* A Go-Go Club
* The Body Shop ( there really IS one here called this)
* Circus Tent
* Cleopatra
* Doll House
* Doubleplay
* Joker Club
* Lefty's Playboy
* The Pink Slip
* Ton's Playgirl Club ("easy to find, hard to leave")
* The Playmate Lounge
* The Recess Room

Western/Cowboy/Sportsmans Bars:
* Branding Iron
* The Glacier
* Howdy Club
* Mark Twain Club
* Restless Guns
* Trophy Room
* Western Cafe

The 1967 List:

* Club Maverick
* Cow Town
* The Golden Horse
* Outpost

Dance Hall clubs:
* Can-Can Club
* Moderne Club
* Panther Room
* The Playroom
* Red Fox
* Shangri-La Club
* Star Cafe
* Stardust Room
* Stark Club (yes, Stark, not Stork)
* Top Hat
* Tropicana
* Velvet Slipper

The 1967 List:

* A Go-Go Club
* Club Mai Tai
* Crown Club
* Joker Club
* KoKoMo Inn
* Lunar Station
* The New Mo Mo Club
* Music Inn

Chinese restaurants in Arcadia: (if you live here you know I aint joking)
* Happy Time Pete's
* Hinkey Dinkey Cafe
* The Coral Reef
* Mister Patches
* Square Deal Cafe
* Star Cafe
* Tan-Tan Cafe
* Top Hat

The 1967 List:
* The Berry Patch
* Circus Tent
* Detour In
* Doll House
* The Gold Slipper
* The Golden Horse
* Lunar Station
* Pied Piper

Classic Jazz Bars:
* King of Clubs
* Club 4
* Club 16
* Club 21
* Club 26
* Club 65
* Club Delta
* Panther Room
* The Playroom
* Red Fox
* Stardust Room

The 1967 List:
* The Blue Bird
* Crown Club
* Joker Club
* KoKoMo Inn
* Mecca Club

Just Get Hammered Bars:
* The Chukker
* The Corker
* Day and Night Bar
* Happy Time Pete's
* Zombie Hut

The 1967 List:
* Joker Club
* Lefty's Playboy
* Poor Vic's
* The Recess Room
* Tiki Cocktail Lounge
* Tiny's Cocktail Lounge


and my favorites:

* Poor Vic's ( might just use this)
&
* Zombie Hut

[Anonymous]

Unless you can find something above G-rated in a vast expanse of styrofoam, no, my layout is fine [:p]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Oklahoma Train Nut

NO WAY. I am 12 years old and I have 2 younger brothers. my layout will represent a small town in the 50's and I would like to have a nice, pleasent, happy atmosphere. I have briefly come in contact with such things, and I regret it.

Same here. I am thinking about modeling either the 1950s or the modern era, but there certainly won't be anything explicit or vulgar on the layout. Me and one of my friends were just talking today about how you can't even watch a good movie without something of that nature in it.[V]

[fec153]

none of the above. no scenery! no skin either. i'm bashful.[:o)][;)][angel][angel][:-^]

[Anonymous]

[:D][angel][angel][:-^]

In my former club we had a big layout. In a forrest was a clearance with a couple................[:-^][:D] It was created as a joke from us adults.

I must stand on tiptoe to see the scene and im 6ft 2 in tall. And none of our youthmembers knew this scene.

[Anonymous]

My future layout will also be strickly G rated. Not because of little kids who may visit. ( Heck, they'll see and learn enough between their friends at school and life in general). Like many have already stated, I also want to recreate the innocent atmosphere that I remember when I was a kid with my first LIONEL setup during Christmas. Can't wait to fini***hat extra room for the trains!

[krump]

no nudity, some sunbathers, and yes - as Snake noted, there will be a little white country church in the hills.

as far as the bad boys and girls ... reform school, penitentiary, courthouse, police station, sheriffs, game/ park warden, bank robbery, train robbery, probation/parole office, grafitti on walls and railcars, purse snatching, chain gang ... essentially modelling what I know - a career hazard if you like.

cheers,

[FThunder11]

PG-Rated, Ya gotta have things like bars!!! It gives the layout life.

[Fergmiester]

Good! Very Good sometimes!!

As a Cub and Scout Leader and a Father of two. Except the odd occasional stream of profanity (I forget that I'm not on the ship, sometimes[:-^]). My layout is rated PG for the simple reason I don't know who might show up. I may have a pub tucked away in a corner, but it won't be conspicuous. besides the law office to some would be considered more offensive!

[twhite]

Well, let's see--I'm planning on having some skinny-dippers in the Yuba River, when I get it scenicked in, simply because skinny-dipping in the Yuba River is an old and honorable custom where I was born and raised in the Sierra Nevada. And although my layout doesn't have much room for it, if I AM able to model a portion of Nevada City, CA during WWII, I'll have to admit that the town had 22 bars and a very discreet house of ill-repute on Spring Street (the Madam was a pillar of the local Episcopal Chuch. When I was a Sophomore in High School, a friend of mine and I went over to try and sell her an ad in the HIgh School Yearbook. Everyone thought it was funny until it got back to my mother, who had a Cow!). I don't know whether or not I'll have room to model that particular edifice, but if I do, it's just going to look like another one of Nevada City's famous Victorian mansions. So let's just say my model railroad, after I get all the scenery in (does anyone EVER get ALL of the scenery in?) will be slightly PG-13. Rowdy, but not salacious.

[Anonymous]

On my first (of two) pair of modules I have a small quiet stream, and wanted to have a scene with swimmers in it. I got some Preiser swimming figures (with bathing suits on) and placed them on the riverbank, but wanted some in the water so I cut two of them in the middle (a male and a female) and glued them on top of the Envirotex water. Looked good. Now what to do with their lower body parts that were left over? I placed them in position behind a bush near the back of the modules, one on top of another. They can only be seen by the public if I point them out.

I've been asked several times by adults where I get all of the scale figures. I tell them I have them made, and one is being made right here - pointing to the feet sticking out behind the bush! Always gets a laugh!

Hidden behind a covered bridge near this scene is a Campbell figure of a nude lady covering herself up as if she had been skinny dipping. Again this is only visible if I point it out.

A friend has a farm scene on his module, and behind a bush in one scene is a farmer getting to know one of his sheep very well!

All in fun!

Bob Boudreau

[Anonymous]

according to recent studies, my model railroad police force is the best in the basement. So they keep my fictional town G rated.

[randybc2003]

I an a fan of the Old West, and mostly mildly PG. I probably accept it if John Wane or Jimmy Stewart accepted It. After all, Ann Margaret threw a shirt into J. Wane's face and told him to "BOIL IT!". Jimmy S. ran the "Cheyane Social Club" w/ S. Jones.
Of two clubs in the area, one has one "mistress awaiting her lover" in the 2nd. floor of an old brick hotel. This 1/2" x 1/2" in a room at least 40' by 40 feet. The other has a billboard (of a close-up) of a swimmer wearing a white bikini, and the question is ask "Got Milk?" [:-^] When we display the layout, the billboard can be turned around to show a cruse ship on the ocean. [C):-)][C):-)]
The other day I was talking with two guys deciding on structures re a section under construction. A church WAS planned, and there was ribbing about a "cat-house". They were going to put the church right next to the tracks. When I was ask about the other, I said "right oposite the CHURCH. That way you know which is the RIGHT side and the WRONG side of the Tracks" [(-D] One guy adimtted "I didn't see that one comming!"
You are the Brass Hat/Robber Barron. Put down what you like, and be a little mindfull of possible visitors. It's YOUR RAILROAD. Run it the way YOU want to!
R.B.C.