Pink Poodle
Pink Poodle
The Pink Poodle is an adult, nude/topless bar in San Jose, California. It has been in busy for 58 years.
328 S Bascom Ave San Jose, CA 95128 (map)
(408) 292-3685
A Personal Note from Robin
In the very early 1970s, I was Operations Officer for San Jose Search and Rescue. We were an all-volunteer group at that time, attached to Civil Air Patrol, tasked with searching for downed aircraft and providing urban rescue and first responder aid. We used our own vehicles and provided our own uniforms, but Santa Clara County Fire Department provided us with fire frequency pagers, so we could communicate with the fire department. (Cell phones and GPS equipment were not yet available, and mobile phones were large and bolted into the trunk of your car.)
One weekend a month, we would get together and practice search and rescue techniques. After practice, we would all get together at one of the local bars for a drink. One of our drills took us to Lexington Reservoir just outside Los Gatos, California. Years before, a car had run off the road and down an embankment. We would rappel/absail down the hillside and use the wreck as an anchor point to attach a rope-borne litter and rescue pretend victims from the wreck.
At about dusk, after six hours of practice, we decided the next part of our mission should be to go to the Pink Poodle adult bar in San Jose to wash the dust from my mouth.
We had not been there long when my pager sounded an alert followed by the voice from dispatch, "Robin, call your mother!" At this point, I knew the pager would repeat its' obnoxious twin tones and its message to contact my Mother. I tried desperately to do what we used to refer to as the "pager dance," in which I would try to turn off, silence, or disable my pager - all to no avail. I tried to shrink to the point of disappearance and scurried from the bar.
Later, I told her of the incident, and I asked her to please use the phrase, "Robin, please call home "to avoid embarrassing me in the future," and we had a good laugh together.
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