Door "selection" in dance clubs

[Valmy]

So, for those of you who go to dance clubs and the like (yeah, I know, a small group in this collection of nerds and old people), how frequent/popular in your country/area is "door selection" at the clubs and bars and what does it entail?

By "door selection" I mean a bouncer at the door refusing to let some people in.

Well...we have a gestapo that terrorizes bars and clubs throughout the state so they have them to at least keep out the under 18s and make sure the under 21s are properly marked so they do not accidentally serve them booze.  I presume they would also keep the obvious trouble makers out.  Every once in a while some place would be really hyped and popular and they would have a more LA style crowd selection.

[DontSayBanana]

I don't do clubs myself, but there's one around the corner from the girlfriend's place in Philly that's always good for some street theater.  Every Friday/Saturday night that we walk by there, there's this scene: two annoyed-looking bouncers trying to explain and about a dozen people looking annoyed at the line being held up by a girl who can't wrap her head around the difference between dressing up and dressing for a strip joint.

[crazy canuck]

You mean there are clubs that dont have some kind of entrance policy?  How long do those stay in business?

[Grey Fox]

You mean there are clubs that dont have some kind of entrance policy?  How long do those stay in business?

It depends if they are ownedand run by organized crime or not.

[dps]

You mean there are clubs that dont have some kind of entrance policy?  How long do those stay in business?

If they're just a blue-collar type bar, indefinately.

[crazy canuck]

You mean there are clubs that dont have some kind of entrance policy?  How long do those stay in business?

If they're just a blue-collar type bar, indefinately.

That wouldnt qualify as a club.  that is a bar which of course probably has no standards.  Its a different client.

[Josquius]

You mean there are clubs that dont have some kind of entrance policy?  How long do those stay in business?

Most in Newcastle are like that, and they do fine; and before it is raised no, they're not all complete pits, some are pretty nice.