Carnival Strippers
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I remember carnival strippers from my boyhood. At the county fair a tent would be set up with signs about "exotic dancers." A barker on a raised stage would draw a crowd with a smarmy spiel about the forbidden delights that you could see inside, and a dancer or two would be brought out. I was fascinated but I was much too young to go inside (I think the minimum age was 18). By the time I was old enough I had moved on to college and other activities. It would be many years before I saw any strippers in the flesh, so to speak.
Does anyone else remember carnival strip shows?
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Does anyone else remember carnival strip shows?
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I always imagined what I might see inside but I was too young to go inside. So I never knew how many clothes she actually took off. The only show I remember going into was a "killer" gorilla that escaped from his cage and terrorized the audience before being "shot" by the trainer.
What I do remember was seeing real burlesque on Bourbon Street in New Orleans in 1963.
But the humor was a little over my young head, and it took sooo long for the girls to take anything off.
Modern strip clubs are a whole lot better.
Their kids would be too lazy to steal.
Of course this was the old style VIP Rooms. You could have a drink with the dancer in the front room. Or for $200 more you could have a drink with her in the VIP Room. Nothing more will happen in the VIP Room than in the front room, but hey, it is in the VIP Room.
Today, I feel that these places which try to limit front room touching and force it all into booths and backrooms, the modern clip joints, are still running on the same psychodynamics of more fantasy than delivery.
And even with FS in the VIP Room, if it is not a girl letting her emotional barriers down and letting it be GFE, I would still say that it is a clip joint and more fantasy than delivery, and hence still working like a carnival does.
Jim and Artie Mitchell were very much like carnival barkers. Their father had been a professional card player, who kept his marks engaged by telling stories to them during the games.
SJG
I did go to some fairs in the 50's & 60's but like most, I was too young to go in the "girlie" show.
Since it was a real carne side show, after a few minutes the barker hustled everyone for more $ to see more of the "beauties" on stage. I was one of the many who left without paying more - or seeing more. It certainly did not scar me for life, but it did fit into my small but growing list of, "beware of rip-off" experiences,
Very, very different from the modern strip clib - or not.
So, they had a girly show. So, we had fake ID's since we were 16 or 17. So, the dancers name was Heather, her bush was shaved into a heart, she had reddish hair and she danced to "Undercover Angel" by Alan O'Day and "Hot Blooded" by Foreigner. I'm not able to hear any of those songs, 39 years later without instantly being there in the front row thinking "So that's what it looks like!"
I was deprived!
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LaVey learned his trade working in carnivals. Seeing guys drooling over half naked girls, and then on Sunday seeing them with their families in the church service tent at the opposite end, is what shaped his view of our society and of religion.
SJG
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On a similar subject ...
There's a growing fascination for "burlesque" shows among the hipster demographic. I have to admit to really REALLY enjoying the one or two that I've been to. I wrote a TUSCL review a while back about one that shows regularly in New Orleans, here's a link to my review ...
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=club-reviews…
It's a performance of several short (five to ten minute) self-contained "acts," each one on its own theme. The revue I saw had, for example, (1) a five-girl "Brazilian" choreographed zumba-exotic-dance routine, about five minutes, one rather long samba-type song, in which they reduced their clothing levels throughout and in unison; (2) a one-girl "Library" skit which was choreographed to open and close a book right in front of the hot girl's crotch whenever you thought you were going to get a peek at the coochie, and meanwhile the hot librarian was taking off her glasses, letting down her hair-bun, etc.; (3) about five other skits ranging from one to six girls each; (4) an aerialist who didn't really strip, all she did was dance pretty loops and spins in the air hanging from pastel-colored silk fabric in pastel-colored spotlights, but she had a hot body because she was an accomplished gymnast; etc.. It's not exactly the same as the old carnie-style "exotic dancer" who was also a prostitute and/or stripper and/or what-not. But it has some of the same allure.
(BTW, an aside -- the club-page for that linked review above indicates that this venue is "permanently closed" and I don't disagree. The statement is kind-of true, since the VENUE where the performance took place is actually a theater that usually hosts rock-bands and only does a burlesque show twice a year, roughly. But it's also kind-of NOT true, since the venue is likely to host another burlesque show some time in the future, and the performers from the burlesque that I saw are possibly going to be in it, or are possibly already performing somewhere else in town at a different venue.)
Yeah, Pink Pussycat was on NW 36st by Jai Alai and about 5-mins from MIA airport - I think Jai Alai is now a casino - Pink Pussycat I assume had been around since the 70s and it closed around 2010 and no other club has reopened in that location - I started SCing in 2000 and around that time I eventually visited Pink Pussycat and visited a total of 6 to 8 times in the 2000s while I lived in Dallas and visited back home 2x/yr