Orange county gay bathhouse
Hollywood Spa opened in 1974 and, before the advent of HIV and AIDS, was a major destination for gay men who had few other places to meet one another. It had 100 personal rooms, a DJ, a steam room and jacuzzi, an “adult video” lounge, a gym and a cafe. The spa boasted on its website that it hosted over 100,000 visitors a year.
"At the upscale Hollywood Spa on Ivar Avenue, towel-wrapped patrons can look each other over while working out on gym equipment or sipping freshly squeezed orange juice from the cafe. Vintage Hollywood posters cover the walls, strobe lights flicker, and DJs spin the latest club music." (L.A. Times, 27 Oct, 1997)
The spa was ordered to close in 1988, as part of an enforcement of stringent regulations restricting sexual activity at gay bathhouses. “I don’t plan to close,” said Scott D.R. Goulet, owner of Hollywood Spa, 1650 Ivar Ave. “We adjudicated this issue two years ago. We won it then. The county was wrong,” he said. Co-owner and spa manager John Ferry told the LA Times: “We’re going to fight this thing. As far as we’re concerned, we’re the good guys. We consider the Hollywood Spa to be an important ass
Thera Health Spa
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ABOUT The SPA
THERA HEALTH SPA is a full service spa dedicated to your full relaxation and renewal, an oasis in this earth of stress.
In both the men's and women's facilities we offer wet steam rooms, dry sauna rooms,large Jacuzzi whirlpools and cold pools. Plus, lounge and relaxation areas where you can thoroughly rest and recuperate. The services we offer include body scrub, massage, acupressure and facial skin care.
All toiletry needs, towels, robes, sandals and shorts are provided.
Thera Health Spa
650 El Camino Real
Tustin, California 92780
714.573.4618
714.508.0014
Open 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM Monday to Saturday
Closed on Sundays
The Shoulders I Remain Upon
By BigMike Phillips
How do I start this article … hmmm, well as always, I am going to be honest and not ashamed, or will I be shamed because of how I have enjoyed my sex experiences over the last 48 years of my life.
You observe, I am a gay man who loves to hold sex with other gay men, and a lot of that sex was in bathhouses as I was growing up in the newfound gay planet that I was exploring. Every solo time I would visit another municipality, state, or region, the one place I always made a point to visit was the local gay bathhouse.
I Googled “gay bathhouse” for this column and it says: “… bathhouses offered a place where men could involve in anonymous sex, but they were much more than that. Some of the bathhouses offered a fully-equipped gym for working out, swimming pools, steam rooms, saunas; some offered living room-like settings; some offered sodas and snacks while they spent time together or just hung out.”
As I was coming out as a gay man in 1975, a companion first introduced me to this place called “a bathhouse” and I was literally a kid in a candy store. I felt I had gone to heaven and could not think such a place even existed. Even then,
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