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A former Greyhound office and bus terminal, the facility has been restored with a similar aesthetic. Business has not been good lately for bathhouses, the urban meeting places for gay men who enjoy using steam rooms and saunas or getting blowjobs from complete strangers in them. The Hollywood Spa, a long-time haunt in LA, closed its doors this year after decades in business, and the recently looked at the decline in the importance of these fabled sex dens.

Associated Press. I recently chatted with Holding, who has invested in bathhouses all over the country since he opened his first club in , about the past, present, and future of the industry. VICE: How did you end up in the bathhouse business? Dennis Holding: I worked in the automotive industry at the time on the racing side, selling parts. I was in Indianapolis for the qualifying for the [Indy] , and it was raining, so I went out and met somebody.

We went to a brunch the next day with his friends, and they got talking about how Indy needed a gay bathhouse. A couple weeks later, I met the principals of the Club Baths chain [which had 42 bathhouses in its prime]. It was the 70s, so things were going great guns.

When did you build your next club? An opportunity came in Houston because I met some guys who said they needed a bathhouse. Were you visiting the bathhouses a lot back then? I had just come out a few years before. So yes, I was. I was running amok. I traveled constantly for business for several years before I settled down in one city. Every city I would look at bars and bathhouses and see what was going on.

Were the clubs busy? Were the guys having tons of sex?

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They were busy, and it depended on the person—some were fairly promiscuous and some were picky. One of the by-products was the number of couples who first met in a bathhouse. Two of our principal partners met in the club in Cleveland in the late 60s. I met Leroy there. What was the atmosphere like in the clubs? It was a social place then.

Yeah, there was sex, of course, but the clubs we were building had swimming pools, gyms—they had a lot to offer. We have people who have been going to one of our clubs for 20 years, 30 years. There are plenty of people I know just by there being there so much. So how are you going to get young guys to show up? Now our age is about mid 30s rather than late 40s.

Back in the day were the clubs just full of super hot young guys?