Take a look inside the last gentlemen’s club on the MS Coast before it’s demolished
What’s been an eyesore for years on Veterans Avenue in Biloxi will soon be just a memory as the Lady Horseshoe strip club is demolished this week.
The Wooldridge family, which owns the adjacent Big Play Family Entertainment Center, has purchased the building at 143 Veterans Ave.
“Weather permitting, we are tearing it down tomorrow,” Brandon Wooldridge, operator of Big Play, said on Monday.
For now, the property will be used for extra parking, he said, which is needed on busy weekends at the family attraction and the Big Play go-cart track across the street.
Wooldridge said new rides will open this weekend. A kiddie train, big slide and a mini pirate ship are for younger kids, he said, which is a new area for Big Play. The center also has two mini golf courses, laser tag, bowling lanes, a video arcade and other attractions.
A food truck festival is planned this weekend to help introduce the new rides, he said.
That area of the Biloxi strip has been known for its family attractions, many of which were destroyed during Hurricane Katrina.
In contrast was Lucky Horseshoe, which also operated under the name Horseshoe Bar & Gentlemen’s Club and other names over the decades.
Crews found a cage, signs, letters from the girls who worked there and other reminders of the past when they went in last week to begin the demolition process, said BJ Warden, project supervisor.
The club operated since the 1960s, but has been closed since the death of owner Jimmy Manning in 2019, when the property lost its grandfather status to continue operating.
