Original Broadside for a Concert Featuring Carol Doda's Image.

(SAN FRANCISCO: CAROL DODA)

Edité par [The 524 Club] [1969], San Francisco, 1969

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Original broadside for a concert by The Jiants, Anne Weldon, Randy Randolph Trio, Carol Doda and special guest star Charles Pierce. 23 x 35 inches. with lettering in pink and with a pink tint overall. A very minor (under an inch) marginal tears though none extending into the image. Overall a very good copy. Rare.In the 1970s if one entered San Francisco via the Bay Bridge one was soon looking at a huge billboard for Carol Doda. She was a key cog in the revolution that had going on in San Francisco since the 1960s. This broadside advertises a concert held at The 524 Club on February 17, 1969. The Apex of Hippiedom.Carol Ann Doda (d. 2015) was an American topless dancer based in San Francisco, California, who was active from the 1960s through the 1980s. She was the first public topless dancer in the United State, Her usual venue was the Condor on Broadway. On June 19, 1964, when Doda was twenty-six years old, the Condor's publicist, "Big" Davy Rosenberg, gave Doda a monokini topless swimsuit designed by Rudi Gernreich. She performed topless that night, the first noted entertainer of the era to do so. The act was an instant success. Two months after she started her semi-nude performances, the rest of San Francisco's Broadway went topless, followed soon after by entertainers across America. Doda became an American cultural icon of the 1960s and 70s. She was profiled in Tom Wolfe's 1969 book The Pump House Gang and appeared that same year as Sally Silicone in Head, the 1968 film created by Jack Nicholson and Bob Rafelson, and featuring The Monkees. The movie was produced by Columbia Pictures. She also appeared in a Golden Boy parody with Annette Funicello, Sonny Liston, and Davy Jones. She eventually went all nude forcing the government to change the law; no nudes with alcohol. She performed until 1985 at the remarkable age of 48. She later ran her own lingerie shop in the city.One of the other acts, Ann Weldon, has also gone down in history. Ann and Maxine Weldon from Bakersfield, performed in clubs beginning in the 1950s, and developed relationships with their gay audiences that came to benefit both the audience and the performers. Ann Weldon performed often in the Bay area and in 1966 and 1967 at the 524 Club, a gay club that was earlier known as the Paper Doll. It was during a performance in autumn 1967 that William Ball from American Conservatory Theatre came to see her and offered her a role in Edward Albee's play, An American Dream. That was the beginning of her acting career. n 1968 Maxine Weldon began performing in San Francisco clubs as well. For several months at the end of that year and into 1969, she was performing at Leonarda's (16 Leland) with the Randy Randolph trio. Leonarda's was a restaurant, bar and nightclub with both lesbians and gay male patrons in Visitation Valley. It was owned by Margaret "Peg" Clark, who would later open Peg's Place on Geary. "On Feb. 17, 1969, Ann Weldon with the Randy Randolph trio performed at "A Night To Remember" with Charles Pierce, Carol Doda and the comedy troupe the Jiants at the Basket (895 O'Farrell) which was billed as an "All-Star Show For Homosexuals" in the Chronicle" (M. Flanagan, 2019). The Weldon sister became central players in the gay and AIDs activist scene in San Francisco, performing at numerous fundraisers and contributing their emergy to many organizations.

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• Titre: Original Broadside for a Concert Featuring Carol Doda's Image.
• Éditeur: [The 524 Club] [1969], San Francisco
• Date de parution: 1969