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  • 7/6/2024
On a fateful San Francisco night in the early 60s, Condor nightclub performer Carol Doda was lowered to the stage on a f | dG1fdFRJVHlMcFc5bkk
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00:00This is an extraordinary moment in American history.
00:14It was the beginning of a whole new world.
00:19San Francisco is a happening town.
00:21I want to be in show business and I don't know any other way but to start showing my business.
00:26Carol Doda and the Condor Club usher in this era of topless dancing.
00:31It was a sensation.
00:32She was brave enough to do something no one had done before.
00:35This isn't your usual costume, is it?
00:38Oh, well, I don't think so. Do you?
00:41She made an international name for herself.
00:43I give them the fantasy which people need.
00:47We ended up getting busted.
00:49The city shut the clubs down.
00:51Carol Doda was saying,
00:53my body is the art and the performance is going to go on.
00:57These girls are so bad they got arrested. Let's go see.
01:03Why is everybody becoming so puritanical?
01:05Are they afraid of the body?
01:10People went absolutely wild when she did this.
01:13A lot of rules were being broken.
01:15She changed our thinking about something as personal and basic as nudity.

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