1966. Bridgeport, California, Mountain Warfare Training Center, The Sierra Nevada's.
Tired of going to Reno, and in a walking cast, having broken my ankle skydiving, I was looking for something new. My bud “Mouse” was reading a rag. We were both on No Duty. Mouse had accidentally shot himself in the leg -a big NO-NO in the Corps.
“Hey Man, looky here. This stripper in Frisco has had her titties made bigger. She had them enlarged with silicone.”
“How the fuck does that work” I asked. “Silicone is heated until it becomes a fluid. It's the same shit we lube our GUNS with.”
“All kinds of shit can be made from Silicone” said Mouse. “She had it injected (it was before titty bags were invented). Her titties have gone from 34 to 44 inches. She started topless dancing in June 1964 at the Condor Club out in North Beach. Wanna go?”
“Lets go!” I said.
From Bridgeport to Frisco we drove route 80, over the Donner Pass. In 1846 it wasn't called the DONNER yet. Trying to get over the Sierras too late in the year, the pilgrims got snowed in and had to eat each other for Thanksgiving! UUUMMM! They were known as the Donner Party. Nowadays the passes are closed every fall. Snow Gates are locked across the roads usually at the end of October. Bridgeport was on Sonoma pass. Thehighway people were repairing the road, so we took highway 80. My “Poncho '' handled the pass and elevation easily since I had those three carbs rejetted. Once over the Pass we made good time getting to San Francisco.
The Condor Club is on the corner of Broadway and Columbus. Bridgeport to the Condor Club was a “skosh” over 225 miles. It took us 3 hours going over the Pass, following the Gulfstream's being towed by underpowered station wagons, slowly climbing the pass would add an extra hour to our trip, to see these TITS!!This was June and the tourist bunch were out in force. We finally made it for one of the shows. Fellow Perverts were lined up and down the block! The Club had a $2.00 cover charge and they ran a dozen shows a night along with one overpriced drink limit. Now Get out! The club ran as many people through the joint as possible. Finally, we got in and saw them Monsters. I haven’t been the same since.
Anywhoo It was in-n-out. Ain't it always!! In 1964, the Republican National Convention was held in Frisco. Many of the Goldwater and Reagan Delegates came to see those Monster Mammaries! 44 INCHES on a little woman make them look HUGE!! From that time on I would see my titty show at the Moonlight Ranch, cheaper and ya get some BOOM-BOOM!! But that's another story!
Carol Doda would become Infamous. She would be featured in Tom Wolfe's book, “The Pumphouse Gang”. The early 70s came and most women of the time were willing to give us their own Titty show. With the overhead being much higher, the Condor was sold and renamed. In1973, the Condor reopened. Doda became Topless and Bottomless until she retired in the 80s. She then would open a lingerie shop called the “CHAMPAGNE and LACE”. Carol Doda is 65 years old. She is retired. The Condor continues to be a strip bar - the only bar I know of to have a Historical marker commemorating the world's first Topless and Bottomless Bar!!
OOHRAH! Only in SAN FRANCISCO!!!!
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