RicksPics' photos

Dick Grossenbach, U of Wisconsin, 1941

Karen and Donna, about 1960

Cuties in the Quarter, about 1961

My sister and cousin, window shopping at Henrietta's, 318 Royale St., in the French Quarter. Submitted to the Vintage Photos Theme Park for the theme, STORES (INTERIORS OR EXTERIORS)

Submitted for the "Cities" theme in the Vintage Photos Theme Park. In the mid-1960s through the '80s, the Condor Club was the most famous of the strip clubs in San Francisco and home to the city's most famous exotic dancer, Carol Doda. Miss Doda gained national fame when she initiated a fully bare-breasted act at the Condor in 1964, which proved highly popular with the delegates to the Republican National Nominating Convention, meeting at the nearby Cow Palace that summer. According to her New York Times obituary, Miss Doda's popularity spurred a national surge in totally topless performance and caused the nearly total destruction of the "Pasties" industry in the United States. Some quick-thinking manufacturers, seeing the rise in popular interest in pirate culture, were able to fend off disaster by converting to the manufacture of decorative eye patches. Of course, they still had to face the inevitable 50% decline in units sold. Here is a link to Miss Doda's obituary, which contains some interesting background that I was unable to squeeze into this small space. www.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/arts/dance/carol-doda-pioneer-of-topless-entertainment-dies-at-78.html

Attempt to lure our dog from her place of refuge. She would hide behind the toilet when she knew she had transgressed. Submitted to the VPTP as a tattered & torn (or otherwise damaged) photo. c. 1960.

Carl and Chatter the Chimp when my dad hosted an afternoon kids show, c. 1958. Tardy submission for the Vintage Photo Theme Park's theme, Canes, Batons, Spears, etc.

Late in the Eisenhower administration.

Our beloved, Lady.

Sisters, 2006, SF, CA.