Ahhh, the old Hi-Way Playground lol. We couldn’t make it out to the truck stop from WashPa so would go there. Didn’t they have a popcorn maker and sell hotdogs there?
In WV we usually went to the Weirton ones but I was always a backseat passenger and don’t have many memories other than a fraternity brother having a pair of a dancer’s panties on his head for the ride back.
Originally Posted by PghM4Fun
I was a regular at the Hi-Way Playground off Route 70 near New Stanton for years, and I arranged "off-site" deals with a certain number of dancers who worked there over the years. Never did business "on site" because the rooms were well-monitored by cameras, but like at most clubs usually a "certain" number of the attending dancers were/are open-minded to business "off site"....
I have a vague recollection of a popcorn maker and hotdog's for a certain time, and for the last several years of the Hi-Way's existence they gave out free keg-beer with a standard, reasonable cover-charge. Guys paid a standard door-cover and then they could drink keg-beer for free all nights. They started giving out free keg beer around early 2009 if I remember correctly. And guys clearly were walking out to their cars and returning into the club with their own "mixed drinks" throughout the night too....
The free beer (drink all night with a standard cover charge!) and lax attitude to BYO Liquor increased the clubs crowds, they had to hire a humongous bouncer in biker attire, and steadily from 2009 on there were more fights in and outside the club as a result of all the free beer and booze being consumed. The huge biker-bouncer was there only on Friday and Saturday nights so the fights during weeknights often went un-addressed and unresolved until they finished by natural, Darwinian selection. I literally saw a guy being carried out in-traction by paramedics one-night, on a weeknight when the huge biker bouncer was not there to keep control of the situation....
For a time after they started giving out free beer (patrons could drink beer for free with basic cover cost) they were open until (yes) sunrise on weekends, at least for a time. Open until very early in the morning for extended entertainment! Good Times! Standard closing times for years was 4AM, even on weeknights. On weekends and weeknights they attracted a notable number of "civilian" girls/women who were there for the free beer and entertainment....
Sadly the Hi-Way Playground is no more. The dilapidated shack (which looked like the unique structure in the movie "Porky's") lasted a few years after the business ended and even now that is gone. They should have loaded that place onto a flat-bed truck and transported it to the Western PA Legendary-Depraved Stripclub Museum. I loved the Hi-Way Playground....!