Standard Prices were $150 (Asian price), $170 (Korean price), $200 (Non-Asian Price), and the most important factors:

1. No shilling or online scam games.

2. Line-ups, you can pick and choose, so no B&S. You can walk and go to another place and no big deal.

3. No pressure and very casual and civil, like going to a nice, fancy restaurant.

4. Better looking providers who have to compete. Competition is good for the consumer.

5. No robberies. Too many girls there to protect one another, and there is mamasan.

6. It was viewed as more "legitimized" back then, though still illegal, but at least what you saw was what you got. Little fear of LE repercussions.

7. Most of the services were covered from start to finish, which was/is safer for the provider and her client.

8. They paid some of their taxes.

9. You can go in 2's or more. It was a friendly outing.

10. Everyone was held in check. Client, friend who didn't want to lose face if he was too physically abusive to comfort provider, and comfort provider had a reputation to uphold for her establishment and her peers.

Back then, the economy was stronger, and the price was $150-200.

I am comfortable and like the current AAMP, often one, two and "sometimes" three women working, spacious rooms, wide beds, private showers, even then I occasionally 'hear' a screamer in the next room. I can only imagine the sounds at a popular AMP with many girls working. I also like the privacy afforded by the AAMPs, not interested in sitting in a lobby waiting for my turn and having coffee with another customer.

Even more to my liking is the independant women. Why just the otherday while visiting.....(fill in the blank)..., she was located at a upscale inn, spacious room, private shower, easy to book, going over on time, I find it much more relaxing and exciting for the both of us.

While seeing one of the few indys I see, during dinner she had put on this full length silky nitie. I commented on how lovely see looked. She explained it was just an 'old' thing she used to wear when see worked a line up. She also expressed her dislike for those days. It must be hard for the women that are not as good looking, popular, working in those situations.

Doing the MP crawl in SF was awesome... especially ending up at GF, chatting with mamasan and just hanging out checking out the line-up until you see someone to your liking.

Those were the days when you could have everything from skanky viets to DDG K-girls all a stones throw away from each other.

Thanks in advance.

-DL

Never Ask Why ........

Scared Mimi/Joy("thee" tightest kitten of them all) away. The day before my planned next session.

Just kidding, but seriously the scene today doesn't come close to what we had pre-blck Thursday. It is what it is. Like the great philosopher Donald Rumsfeld said: you don't go to war with the army you wish you had, you go to war with the army you have.

The best part you didn't have to make an appointment. Yeah, if you wanted to see someone, you could call ahead, but that never really worked - it was always first come, first served.

However, I'm beginning to like the AAMP model more and more. I do thing service is better because there's a allotted time and they are pacing themselves better.

In the line up days, a busy night meant it could be a mad house and the pressure to get you in and out was high. Also, things could get a little dicey. I was at Sunflower once around 2AM when the drunks rolled in and there was a massive fight in the lobby and right outside my door. Girls were yelling, drunk assholes were yelling and pushing and shoving, fists started to fly, the owner and her husband were screaming and when someone yelled "I'm calling the police!", I pulled out, got dressed and pushed my way through the scrum and to the door. It was freakin' bizarre.

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Great question; I'm very ambivalent about the differences. In short, the...

BT era

Pros

Always felt like an outing if not an adventure; I loved my road trips to the city.
Offered many lineups of (mostly) smiling, flirtatious gals.
Used the first come, first serve scheduling principle and effective appointments were exceptions to the rule.
Operating hours often permitted as late as 2am-4am dalliances
Was a spectator as well as a participant sport; always entertained by guys grappling with the choices, and the choices making it oh so difficult for them!
Befriending a few customers, owners, providers (i.e. very open minded social aspect)
Dining in the city; mostly after the festivities but sometimes before
got a real insiders view of the world
"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.... BBFS wasn't nearly the health threat it is now.

Cons

life was extremely disrupted by the feds and in particular, the sheer stupidity of USA Kevin Ryan and cohort Bradley Schlozman, both subsequently dismissed from their federal jobs for (unrelated) extremely poor performance and judgment (I predicted the demise of Ryan)
Service levels were acceptable and on occasion, barely breached the GFE boundary.

Post-BT Era

Pros

Offerings within the SF Bay Area horseshoe (i.e. Penn, South, and East Bay regions) meet if not exceed the physical attractiveness level of the pre-BT days
Service tends to far exceed anything I received previously (notwithstanding Fuji and Nikki's)
Price differences if any, are mostly negligible and sometimes in my favor.
The AAMPs do tend to be closer and require shorter driving.

Cons

Overall, my AAMP experiences feel compartmentalized from beginning to end. That is, the social aspect is non-existent and the diversion feels like it begins and ends somewhat starkly, via an anonymous, nondescript, apartment complex hallway and door. I miss the highways and byways that led to the Emerald City (i.e. SF AMPs).
I am not compelled to visit SF AMPs anymore based perhaps on ignorance but in the few years following BT, the providers were borderline in appearance, zilch in performance, and disproportionately expensive. Perhaps the better parts went subterranean but I was no longer in the know.
The AAMPs have progressively reeled in their operating hours (for presumably good reasons) to barely late evening, but I've never developed an orientation for this.
As previously discussed, getting an appointment with certain providers and occasionally, with any provider, seems more problematic. Not unexpectedly, the "I'm blacklisted" or "I'm not worthy" syndromes erupt but they're just signs of the times... We're competing more directly with each other and are being held to a punctuality that was heretofore, nonexistent vis-a-vis the Pre-BT AMPs.

Well, that's all I'm going to say about that.

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Rompe Palle