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Home Arts & Entertainment, Burlesque, In MemoriamA Toast To….The Legendary Carol Doda

A Toast To….The Legendary Carol Doda

November 11, 2015• byMichael Strangeways

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A lot of you are going: “Huh?”

(but a lot of you say that about anything you’ve never heard of….probably because you’re stoned…or, 22.)

But, old folks know who she is….and, probably (hopefully) most burlesquers and strippers. Carol Doda was the legendary San Francisco stripper who broke the “boobie ban” back in 1964 at the Condor Club, the notorious strip club on Broadway in the North Beach neighborhood. Carol passed away Monday at the age of 78 but she’ll always be a legend in stripper history and as an enduring part of quirky San Francisco history.

From the Sacremento Bee:

“When the (beatniks) were handing the torch to the hippies, a girl named Carol Doda changed the world from a pole at the corner of Columbus Avenue and Broadway,” her friend Lee Housekeeper said.

Doda, known for her augmented bust, rode onto stage atop a piano on an elevator platform, debuting her act the same day President Lyndon B. Johnson drew half-a-million people in a visit to San Francisco.

It wasn’t long before the big news in town was “The Girl on the Piano.”

Doda became a legend and the Condor Club had an illuminated sign carrying her likeness.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/entertainment/celebrities/article44277546.html#storylink=cpy
A toast to Carol Doda! Long may her G-String fly!!!
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About the Author: Michael Strangeways

As the Editorial Director/Co-Owner, Michael Strangeways writes, edits and does about a million other jobs for Seattle Gay Scene, Puget Sound's most visited LGBTQ news, arts and entertainment website now celebrating its 14th year as a media outlet. A semi-proud Midwesterner by birth, he's lived in Seattle since 2000. He's also a film producer who would like you to check out the Jinkx Monsoon documentary, "Drag Becomes Him" now available on Amazon.com. In his spare time, he gets slightly obsessive about his love for old movies, challenging theater, "otters", vodka, chocolate, "I,Claudius", Lizzie Borden, real books made out of paper, disaster films, show tunes, Weimar era Germany, flea markets, pop surrealistic art, the sex lives of Hollywood actors both living and dead, kitties, chicken fried steak, haute couture and David Bowie. But, not necessarily in that order.

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