This scene has something to do with a girlie show that took place decades ago in what is now the Great American Music Hall on Treasure Island. (Be sure to consider this while swaying and nodding at the Hope Sandoval show there tonight during the Belle and Sebastian set there next month.)
[Burrito Justice Historical Update: "Sally Rand's Nude Ranch" was part of the 1939 Golden Gate Exposition (aka World's Fair) on Treasure Island. Epic, totally NSFW photos here. Sally made a name for her nude dancing at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair (bringing in $6K a week, the equivalent of $100,000!) She followed up with the 1.0 of the Nude Ranch in Ft. Worth at the 1936 Frontier Expedition.
In 1936, Sally Rand bought "The Music Box" (today's GAMH) where she performed her world-famous feather dance and bubble dance. She continued to dance into her 70s, and worked with the Mitchell Bros in the early 1970s.]
Spots Unknown has some of the sordid details in a new post entitled Photos of San Francisco in 1939, and just published a follow-up article on Sally Rand.
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actually, that image is from the Golden Gate International Expo that took place on Treasure Island. here’s more info on Sally Rand: http://spotsunknown.com/sally-rand-in-1933-unfair-to-nudism-nsfw/
Ha ha, Allan and I have been in an edit war for the past several hours. Article updated above.
well done!
I wonder if Tom Robbins got some inspiration from this for “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”
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