Delights cabaret

Overview

Confirmed Delights is a club in Port Gellhorn, the faded resort town Rockstar introduces as “Leonida’s forgotten coast”. Its only official picture is described as “The outside parking lot of a club in Port Gellhorn at night with signs lit up advertising the cabaret.”

On screen The signs leave little doubt about the business: a roadside board reading Delights and Cabaret, with a dancer’s silhouette and “Girls” in pink neon down both sides, over a marquee that promises new girls and new food and says the club is hiring dancers.

Key facts

• Confirmed Where: Port Gellhorn.
• On screen Roadside marquee: “New Girls New Food”, “Open All Night”, “Hiring Dancers”.
• On screen Door marquee: “Hiring Dancers”, “Open All Night”, “Free Admission”, under a neon Delights sign with a dancer figure.
• On screen At the door: an Entrance sign, a Ladies Night poster and a doorman.
• Confirmed In the picture: parked cars, a few people lingering outside, and two people walking under the sign, one pushing a shopping cart.

What the still shows

On screen The club is a low building washed in red and green neon. A doorman at the entrance points at a man sprawled on the pavement in front of him, a man with folded arms stands beside a poster, and two women in short outfits and boots wait by the wall. A green pickup on oversized tires sits half on the curb, and a red muscle car is parked in the foreground.

Port Gellhorn

Confirmed Rockstar’s Port Gellhorn text, under the headline “Live Hard”, sets the scene: “Cheap motels, shut-down attractions, and empty strip malls won’t bring the tourists back, but there’s a new economy in this once-popular vacation spot. It’s fueled by malt liquor, painkillers, and truck stop energy drinks.” Its advice to visitors: “Jump on a dirt bike and hold onto your wallet.”

Confirmed The town’s other official stills show the Starlet Motel with its vacancy sign lit, two men in a room full of grow lights, a woman handing a package through a car window, and a bonfire party.

Our read

Our read Delights is the nightlife of the town Rockstar describes: open all night, free to enter, hiring, in a place the tourists have left. It sits at the other end of Leonida’s strip-club scale from Vice City’s Jack of Hearts, the club behind Boobie Ike’s record label.

Questions

Where is Delights?

Confirmed In Port Gellhorn, according to Rockstar’s description of the still.

Is Delights a strip club?

Confirmed Rockstar calls it a club with signs advertising the cabaret. On screen The signs add “Girls”, a dancer’s silhouette and a call for dancers, and a Ladies Night poster hangs by the door.

Is it open all night?

On screen Both marquees say so, and the one over the door adds free admission.

Can you go inside?

Confirmed Rockstar has not said. On screen Its only picture shows the parking lot and the entrance.