St. Louis Locations

Local Businesses

• Arch City Leather Works

  • St. Louis, MO

  • Leather goods store located in St. Louis. They carry a large array of high quality leather items for sale.​

• Betsy’s Kitchen

  • Cottleville, MO.

  • A Family Restaurant that is somewhat off the beaten path. It is owned by Betsy Daniels and her husband Carl. Their daughter helps by waiting tables and washing dishes while attending UMSL. Their younger children also help out around the place, and can often be found playing in the back near the “back” kitchen. Located just off 94 near Jungerman.

• Brewer’s Yeast

  • St. Charles, MO. Main Street.

  • Microbrewery. They have a large outdoor patio and occasionally have spoken word and local bands play on the small stage inside. Brewer’s Yeast is located on the corner of their block, offering the chance to have an outdoor patio that curves around it. Lotus With Coffee and Tea is on their left.

• Cat’s Meow

  • St. Louis, MO.

  • Near UMSL. Library/Cat Library. The Library is run by a group of business students from UMSL and their books are all from other Library Sales throughout St. Louis and St. Charles/St. Peters. Donations for books are taken regularly, and most of those that work there are volunteers. There are often cat food and cat litter drives for the Library.

• Channings

  • Chesterfield, MO.

  • Autism specialty school and treatment center. The school specializes in Applied Behavioral Analyst techniques and has recently come under fire by autism self-advocacy groups. Dr. Thomas McKellar is on the board of directors and has championed the school as being a pioneer in the treatment of “mild to severe” autism. They frequently use Kieran Sung as an example of how effective their school is.​

• Dawnstar Industries

  • International, Based out of New York, New York.

  • A newer addition to the St. Louis area, Dawnstar Industries is an international corporation that has a lot of industries under its belt.

• Down and Out

  • St. Charles, MO.

  • A Local dive Bar. Generally, a good place to sit down for a drink, but lately there have been a lot of questionable individuals frequenting it. Rumors have been going around that the owner has acquired a gambling debt to someone very dangerous.​

• Eddie’s Burgers and Shakes

  • St. Louis, MO

  • A great small diner that serves burgers, fries, shakes, and ice cream sundaes.

• ​Flight of Fantasy

  • St. Charles, MO. Main Street.

  • Gaming Store/Comic Store located not far from the Japanese Teahouse. The store is open at odd hours and sometimes hosts all night gaming parties for various systems. The owner runs a YouTube channel that features many of the games played in the shop.​

• Frankie’s

  • St. Louis, MO

  • Strip club owned by Jesse and Frankie Chavez. They feature all kinds of shows, different each day of the week. They have Masculine Monday (male dancers), Teaser Tuesday (full clothed dancers), Wayback Wednesdays (vintage or classic dress), Theme Thursday (weekly themes advertised), Femboy Fridays, and Sultry Saturdays (female dancers). They are closed on Sunday.

• Heartthrob

  • St. Louis, MO.

    • Gay Bar that often features Drag shows. They have a leather night about once every two weeks, and they often offer other fetish nights. These nights aren’t regulated, and Danica (from Strawberry’s Black) has often asked that they discontinue the practice. Bar that Devan meets Cryst in as teenager.

• The Japanese Teahouse

  • St. Charles, MO. Main Street.

  • A piercing and tattoo place on Historic Main Street of St. Charles, MO. Built inside a couple of the historic shops connected together, the Teahouse preserves the historic nature of the building while providing a service to the locals. Lotus with Tea and Coffee is located on their right, and another restaurant is located on their left.​

• ​Liberty Shooting Sports and Outdoors

  • St. Louis, MO.

  • Guns and Ammo store with a shooting range attached to it. They often order in specialty items and have a wide range of products, including bows as well as guns.

• The Library Coffee House

  • St. Louis, MO

  • A small coffee house that is also a bookstore. They are open late, until midnight. They open early as well at four am. They are owned by Jesse and Frankie Chavez. They also own the strip club next door, Frankie’s.

• Lotus With Tea and Coffee

  • St. Charles, MO. Main Street

  • Coffee and tea shop that is next door to the Japanese Teahouse. Situated in the same row of businesses in a connected block. Lotus With Tea and Coffee has the Japanese Teahouse on the left side of the shop with the Brewer’s Yeast on the right.

• McKellar Hospital

  • St. Louis, MO. North New Ballas Rd.

  • A Private Hospital located in St. Louis. They are known for being extremely exclusive and expensive. The hospital is set up to be a trauma and cancer treatment center. Most of the surgeons that work for McKellar are highly respected and well-known in the medical community. The board of directors are all retired doctors from the area.​

• McShoogins Repair

  • St. Peters, MO

  • A family owned mechanic shop run by the older James McShoogins and his sons Jacob and Sam. Charles Ruebern works for them delivering parts from their supplier in St. Louis.

• O’Malley’s Diner

  • St. Louis, MO.

  • A small, neighborhood diner known to be owned by the Callaghan Family as a meeting place on neutral ground at the very edge of St. Louis city. Nothing obvious ever occurs in the Diner, but the owner has been known to shut down in the middle of the day when a black car arrives.

• Priscilla’s Emporium

  • St. Louis, MO

  • A drag clothing store in St. Louis. It carries an assortment of various clothes suitable for drag. They have a small kink corner where they sell collars and cuffs.

• Ryuk Dojang

  • St. Louis, MO

  • A Dojang where Peter ends up spending a lot of his time.

• Sentinel Investigations

  • St. Louis, MO and Santa Cruz, CA

  • Private Investigation firm run by Sherlock, his brothers, and the Seath Family.

• Smoke and Juice

  • St. Peters, MO.

  • A Vapor Café. Recently opened, the Smoke and Juice provides smoking wares and accessories as well as tables to use hookahs in the location.

• ​Strawberry’s Black

  • St. Louis, MO.

  • A Goth Dance club and Dungeon built inside the old brewery. Strawberry’s is one of the few Dungeons that exist that allow full contact and nudity in their lower levels. Because of this, there are strict rules and agreements for those that wish to participate. The club is owned and run by the Patrick sisters. Danica runs the Dungeon, and her Marissa runs the Goth Club on the first floor.

• Sweet Clementine’s

  • St. Louis, MO.

  • A rather unsavory strip club that is known for trafficking drugs. The club is a rumored location for human trafficking, but the FBI has never been able to pin any illegal activity directly on the owner, Evan “Cryst” Fullbright.

• ​Underdog’s Bite Dojo and Gym

  • St. Peters, MO

  • Dojo and Gym owned by the O’Brien Family and run by primarily by Tiberius Seath.​

• Vick’s Goldmine Guns and Ammo

  • St. Louis, MO.

  • A less than reputable pawn shop known to fence stolen goods. It is also a suspected contact point for gun running in the area.

• ​Willow Branch

  • ​St. Peters, MO.

  • ​Pagan New Age Store. Owned by the Founder of the local coven, called the Willow Coven. The coven is eclectic and welcomes practitioners of many different types of paganism.

• Zen’s Room

  • St. Louis, MO.

  • Sexual Health and Wellness store based in St. Louis, run by Mistress Zen. She does special orders and often works with both Arch City Leatherworks and Pricilla’s Emporium.

National Chain

• The Daily Grind

  • Regional Chain of Coffee Houses. They offer free wi-fi and have cafés inside them that offer sandwiches and pastries. Known for their smoothies and frappe.

• Randy’s Diner

  • National chain of All-Night Diners. Generally, a decent place to eat, but honestly, no one goes to Randy’s. They end up there because no one else is open.

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