Jumbo's Clown Room
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Jumbo's Clown Room is a dance bar
Dance bar
The term dance bar is used in India to refer to bars in which adult entertainment in the form of dances by relatively well-covered women are performed for male patrons in exchange for cash. Though dance bars were banned in the Maharashtra state, in August 2005, with the passing of the Police Bill,...

 located on Hollywood Blvd.
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 in Hollywood, California
California
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. It was opened on July 27, 1970 and later became a dance bar in 1980. Jumbo's Clown Room embodies the burlesque spirit more than its counterparts in Hollywood and farther west. Some of the interior and front of the Jumbo's Clown Room building is shown on the video for Let me Go by 3 Doors Down
3 Doors Down
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. The front of Jumbo's Clown Room building is also shown on Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, season 4, episode 8, entitled "Manners". The place is also known for having Courtney Love
Courtney Love
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working as dancer in early 90's.
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