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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
I'm a bit surprised the term "taxi dancer" was still in the L. A. Times' lexicon in the 1969. ... I always thought taxi dancers were from a much earlier era like the 1920s and 1930s.
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This information from Wikipedia is from two articles, one in the New York Times and the other in L.A. Weekly:
There remain a handful of nightclubs in the United States, particularly in the cities of New York and Los Angeles, where an individual can pay to dance with a female dance hostess. Usually these modern clubs forgo the use of the ticket-a-dance system, and instead have time-clocks and punch-cards that allow a patron to pay for the dancer's time by the hour. Some of these dance clubs operate in buildings where taxi dancing was done in the early 20th century. No longer called taxi-dance halls, these latter-day establishments are now called hostess clubs.
It's not a taxi dancer place, but I don't recall ever seeing The Body Shop at 8250 Sunset Blvd. mentioned before on NLA. It was a Burlesque house in the 1950's and turned into a strip club in the 1960's and is still there.
The venue appears in several B-movies including Right Hand of the Devil (1963) and the Candy Tangerine Man (1975). Sally Rand stripped there in the early 1960's and it is where Tura Santana, the iconic star of Russ Meyer’s Faster Pussycat Kill Kill (1965), was discovered.
Some screen grabs and ads etc. are at this link, but nothing is dated:
https://oldshowbiz.tumblr.com/tagged/the-Body-Shop
1973:
Hollywood Photographs
2014:
WeHoVille
There was a fire there in the early hours of the morning in Dec. 2008:
More pics and/or info:
https://walkingweho.wordpress.com/20...-up-in-flames/
or
https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lan...-broke-ou.html