A client was once telling me of the massage parlors of the 1980's. On the menu board one hour was 60.
the gal got a little.... the house most of that.
If you wanted FS you tipped 100.00 so with 160 in 1985 I used this inflation calculator
http://www.davemanuel.com/inflation-calculator.php
today's dollars 332.00 for 1 hr FS
Originally Posted by Dagny D.E.W.
It was very common to get FS from a first class college age girl for 60 flat in the early eighties. This equated to 120.84 in todays dollars. With 80 some odd massage parlors in Travis county at the turn of the decade anyone who charged 160 would not get any business. The highest priced place I can remember was the Studio M (or whatever name they were at the time) which was a tourist trap on IH35. The girls there typically requested a tip equaling the door fee which would be 60+60 =120 or 241.68 in today's dollars. More typically were the I Dream of Jeanie, Anns, Pandoras, Satin Spa type places where FS was not a guaranteed extra but just as often as not the girl included it at no extra charge. Of course those were the ladies who garnered the lions share of the business. Somewhere in between were the Vicky's, Castillo Del Rey, Michelle's, Relaxation Plus, type of places where offering a small tip was probably more the norm.
There were some pretty lean years in that time period with the Texas savings and loan crisis devastating the local economy that wasn't very diversified to begin with. Lots, and lots of women working in massage parlors chasing a customer base with typically not much money.