FILE: A dancer performs at Jumbo’s Clown Room on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles.

The late Anthony Bourdain once sidled up to its bar, as did Charles Bukowski and David Lynch. Courtney Love worked there as a dancer in the 1990s before hitting it big. It’s been the subject of breathless, fawning essays, and it’s been featured in documentaries like “Hollyweird.” 

And if you’re going to spend an evening at this 56-year-old East Hollywood strip mall establishment, you know you’d better come armed with cash — and more specifically, singles, so you can tip the impressive, no-nonsense pole dancers that take the stage.

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Yes, we’re talking about the legendary windowless “bikini bar” (called thus because the dancers are never completely nude) Jumbo’s Clown Room, which, to the dismay of online commenters, has been at least temporarily shuttered for........

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