a screenshot from "The Swinger," my favorite Ann-Margret movie, which has great shots of LA in the mid-60s. I just read in the Russ Meyer bio that this was located on Santa Monica Blvd in Los Angeles.
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Chesty Morgan had quite a simple name.
Omigod, I so want to go to that strip club!
I grew up in Phila., where the legendary Troc was famed for its stripper names: Ann Tarctic ("sweetie of the Tsars!"), Shanda Leer, Takya Vestoff, Scarlett O'Fever ("she'll destroy your nervous system!"), Carlotta Tendant ("you'll want to park with her all night!"). . .
and I thought it was just drag queens who had fabulous names: Maude Boat, Vida Boheme etc
TAKYA VESTOFF?! That is fantastic! I may just have to change my name for a few weeks and demand that everyone call me that, although Carlotta Tendant is a close second. Wow.
And it was probably all the same, sad, 52-year-old stripper; just new names on the marquee every week.
The Troc has a Wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trocadero_Theatre
If you enlarge the photo, you'll see the featured stripper that week was Miss Suzi Fone ("She's cool and refreshing!").
More on the Troc, from a message board (Ah learns so much from the intratubes!):
One fellow wrote stage names for the Trocadero, built in 1898 and once Philadelphia's premiere burlesque house. (A Troc ad touted "Russian" bombshell Takya Vestoff: "She's gone from Steppes to Stares!") By the late '70s the past-its-prime Troc was down to three dancers ("You can't say Zelda Schwartz is coming in next week!" reasoned the manager, "Slapsie" Maxie Furman), so they regularly got different names: Bea Cupp, Carlotta Tendant, Rhoda Rooter, Anne Chovy, Claire Voyant, Ophelia Pulse, Penny Saved, Helen Earth, Tess Tickle, Crystal Chandelier, Lena Genst, April Fifteenth, Rita Book, Della Catessen, Cora Nary (no pacemakers allowed), Ruth Less, Pat Pending, Ella Vator, Hedy Brew, Faith Healer, Alison Wonderland, Polly Ester and, at holiday time, Beth Le Hem, the new star in the East. Police raided the Troc on Dec. 7, 1971; local veterans reportedly were in arms over the headline act that day: Pearl Harbor.
little did I know I was dancing at
The ol' Pink Pussycat
The old stage is still in tact at the nightclub/disco -- place is now just called 'Club 7969' (Santa Monica Blvd)
next door to French Market
PZ: we are going SOON! Dusty, get your ass out here NOW!
Damn... my partner Ross is flying to LA on Tuesday. I wonder if I could suddenly get ill and need a few days recuperation in LA on Santa Monica Boulevarde.....
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