Katherine Heartsong Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 For those who enjoyed formal dancing at the amazing atmosphere at Franks/Privé, you'll probably know by now that it's gone from SL. As of September 26, just vanished. They sent a note card to a handful of their tenants and staff, but it's all gone. Club, beach, stores, rentals, etc. Lots of sad people this morning. I'm devastated for the superb hosts and DJs and clientele. I guess I'll see my usual dancing friends at Foxxies? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Luminos Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 (edited) Again? I was never a fan of the place but still, its always sad to see an established venue close. You're all welcome at Club Noir - no DJs any more but doors are open 24/7, theres' a good jazz radio stream and some excellent dances. And maybe someone will step in to take over at Franks, as happened last time. Edited September 27, 2022 by Lewis Luminos 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katherine Heartsong Posted September 27, 2022 Author Share Posted September 27, 2022 (edited) I was there mainly for the amazing hosts (shout out to Mashi!!!) and some of the regular folks who could put up a good conversation. I'll pop by, thanks for the invite! Edited September 27, 2022 by Katherine Heartsong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowan Amore Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 1 hour ago, Katherine Heartsong said: I was there mainly for the amazing hosts (shout out to Mashi!!!) and some of the regular folks who could put up a good conversation. I'll pop by, thanks for the invite! Didn't the original Frank's owned by Nancee close a couple of years ago? Isn't this one basically a rip-off of the original? That was what I had read awhile back. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Nightingale Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 Not a rip-off - As I recall Nancee planned to close it (after getting RL married and moving on from SL) but was persuaded to hand it over to someone willing to continue with it as it was. I haven't been there for a while though; had no idea it was gone. Shame. But such is (second) life. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaylinbridges Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 (edited) I can not find any reference to Franks/Prive' in Search. What was the slurl? What was the official name, since Search has no hits for this club. This should not be confused with Frank's Elite, Frank's Jazz, Bogart's Jazz Club, and Sphynx Jazz, which are all alive and well. Most of the replies here seem to be confusing the original Franks and the new Frank's clubs (owned by William Zeta), with this offshoot club that closed, I think. Edited September 28, 2022 by Jaylinbridges 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cate Foulsbane Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 23 hours ago, Lewis Luminos said: And maybe someone will step in to take over at Franks, as happened last time. Or maybe someone will step in and get Club Noir going again? Don't even think about looking at me. I would rather eat a bug pie while sticking a fork into one of my eyeballs than EVER consider running a club. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaylinbridges Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 Frank's is not closed! http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Franks Place 7/132/49/26 http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Franks Jazz Club/179/118/26 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyndka Cochrane Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 Franks/Prive was not without controversy or criticism... 😏FlickR Post 2 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katherine Heartsong Posted September 28, 2022 Author Share Posted September 28, 2022 46 minutes ago, Lyndka Cochrane said: Franks/Prive was not without controversy or criticism... 😏FlickR Post Thank you for sharing this post! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 Human Only?! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddy Vortex Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 35 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said: Human Only?! Yep, they were famously anti-furry, anti-neko, anti-dinkie, and anti-anything nonhuman. I don't hang out at places where my friends aren't welcome. I haven't set foot back there since photographing for a meme a couple years ago. 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 13 minutes ago, Eddy Vortex said: Yep, they were famously anti-furry, anti-neko, anti-dinkie, and anti-anything nonhuman. I don't hang out at places where my friends aren't welcome. I haven't set foot back there since photographing for a meme a couple years ago. ..that's one business model! May as well be "WHITES ONLY". Sorry not sorry. 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathlen Onyx Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 Well that sucks since I only went last Saturday and was planning on going back. The only thing that I didn't like and granted I was just there one time, is that they had all scripts disabled and their singles dances SUCKED. You couldn't use your own dances there which to me is a huge deal. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriele Graves Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 (edited) 16 minutes ago, Sam1 Bellisserian said: Well that sucks since I only went last Saturday and was planning on going back. The only thing that I didn't like and granted I was just there one time, is that they had all scripts disabled and their singles dances SUCKED. You couldn't use your own dances there which to me is a huge deal. I put all my dances into the Firestorm built-in AO which doesn't use scripts or need them to be enabled to work, you could give that a try or did you mean their policy is that you cannot use your own dances? Edited September 28, 2022 by Gabriele Graves 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benj Mimulus Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 I am well pleased to see it gone. Being a Furry AV, I could never get in. Yet I have a lot of friends who could. I even worked for them for a short time when they tried opening a club "for everyone else." I would be curious to know if there was a grave in-world somewhere I could dance on... 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katherine Heartsong Posted September 29, 2022 Author Share Posted September 29, 2022 13 hours ago, Gabriele Graves said: I put all my dances into the Firestorm built-in AO which doesn't use scripts or need them to be enabled to work, you could give that a try or did you mean their policy is that you cannot use your own dances? That's how I always did it there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polenth Yue Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 Animations don't require anything special to run. No scripts, no different viewers... you can just run them directly from your inventory. The other stuff is just to add a shiny interface to it, but isn't essential. (I never went to this place, but it's handy to know if you hit the issue in the future.) 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriele Graves Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 4 minutes ago, Polenth Yue said: Animations don't require anything special to run. No scripts, no different viewers... you can just run them directly from your inventory. The other stuff is just to add a shiny interface to it, but isn't essential. (I never went to this place, but it's handy to know if you hit the issue in the future.) Generally you are right of course. Some dance sets though are designed to flow from one dance to the next so some kind of AO with the ability to change the play interval is necessary if you want to preserve that effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Luminos Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 Wow I didn't realise the one that closed was an actual rip-off, and not the original one (that Nancee sold). I just read that Flickr post and - wow. Good riddance to it. I take back what I said about being sad that a long-established venue has closed. Not sad at all, now. As far as I know, though, the original Franks also bans furries and other non-human avatars. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liandra Aries Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 (edited) Hi! I'm the poster of that flickr post, Lia Aries Yeah Lewis. William always said in his posts and marketing that his "Franks" was the original. It never was. William Batsons "Franks Jazz Club" actually opened a little over two years ago when Nancee Sinatra closed the ORIGINAL two franks clubs of Franks Jazz and Franks Elite. 2 days later...William opened his copy, Nancee Sinatra teleported in and started screaming abuse at him on voice. She was banned. Three weeks later, William Zeta (totally different william) re-opened the true original Franks Jazz, Franks Elite and Bogarts with Nancee's blessing on the original regions that Nancee owned. The Zeta ran Franks Jazz is the original. Batsons never was. Now, on the subject of old Prive/Franks regulars, there is a new group opened up for folks of the club, its called "ex-prive" search for it on SL Group search and join it, there is a couple of places opened up (one of them called "Frankies") where a lot of the old regulars, and old banned regulars like The Charlies Angels, are now going to. Edited October 6, 2022 by Liandra Aries 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 Idea for someone to use as a Blog post title: "You Don't Know Beans about Franks!" 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robberinthemuseum Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 All I know is, I went there once or twice in a tux and nobody would talk to me and there was someone singing karaoke RUINING the music. Just that. *runs away before the rotten tomatoes hit him* 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fillomeen Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 *~ CLUB PRIVATE ~* was ultimately a corrupt controlled dutch speaking mafia clan. Anyone who did not fit into that picture was expertly banned. Indeed, Club Prive's eventual name change reflected the completely internal takeover of some power-hungry blown-up SL leaves that drove many people away from Nancee's Franks from the very beginning. The entire dutch clan is now settled in the FogBound Blues dance tent. Hopefully they don't bend things to their will and chase everyone out! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabid Cheetah Posted October 31, 2022 Share Posted October 31, 2022 All the fun times I've had there, trying to figure out why friends got kicked out, banned, and muted upon landing. I'm so sad to see it go. I declare a ten-day mourning period to deal with our grief at seeing such a fine establishment leave. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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