A hub of sex, crime, and drugs, Boston's Combat Zone, the nation's largest adult entertainment district during the last half of the 20th century, lured white- and blue-collar workers, lawyers, professors, judges and cops to watch and chat up its adult performers, many of whom earned more than white-collar professionals. By 1985, its multi-decade run was over. Why did it last so long, despite constant attempts to destroy it? What drew thousands of women to perform there, despite the potential for danger? And what became of them, after the lights dimmed and the music stopped? This first…mehr
A hub of sex, crime, and drugs, Boston's Combat Zone, the nation's largest adult entertainment district during the last half of the 20th century, lured white- and blue-collar workers, lawyers, professors, judges and cops to watch and chat up its adult performers, many of whom earned more than white-collar professionals. By 1985, its multi-decade run was over. Why did it last so long, despite constant attempts to destroy it? What drew thousands of women to perform there, despite the potential for danger? And what became of them, after the lights dimmed and the music stopped? This first comprehensive history of the Combat Zone authored by an active participant, is told through the gritty perspective of a Boston cab driver married to a star dancer. It introduces the district's strippers, club owners, transgender performers, prostitutes and cops, depicting them as neither saints nor sinners as they fought for survival and success in a time of sexual revolution and political upheaval. This is their story, much of it told in their own words.
Geoff Alexander has authored two books on cinema and has written on musical subjects ranging from jazz history to flamenco. He is the founder and director of the Academic Film Archive of North America, in San Jose, California, the first archive solely dedicated to the history, preservation, and scholarship of the classroom educational film.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface One. Crashing into the Zone Two. Claire at the Cat Three. On the Firing Line Four. Requiem for a Cabbie Five. New Town, Old City Six. No Breaks for the Famous Seven. The Caribe Lounge Eight. Stage Flight Nine. Into the Combat Zone Ten. Biting on the Lure of Glamour Eleven. The Arrival and Disappearance of Debra Beckerman Twelve. Princess in Paradise: The Cheyenne Story Thirteen. Circus at the Picc-a-dilly Fourteen. The Combat Zone's Miss Exotic Dance Contest of 1979 Fifteen. The Two O'Clock Lounge Sixteen. The Girls Can't Help It Seventeen. Switching Tracks: Transsexual Exotics in the Zone Eighteen. Shooting Stars: Photography in the Zone Nineteen. Chasing Chesty and the Ghosts of Burlesque Twenty. The Pilgrim Theatre, Chesty Morgan and the Final Days of Burlesque Twenty-one. Family du Jour with All the Trimmings Twenty-two. Paradise Calling Twenty-three. Curious Customers, Humiliating Habits Twenty-four. Suicides, Stiffed Fares and Beaten Women Twenty-five. An Evening with the Bitch of Boston Twenty-six. Grifters and Guam Twenty-seven. Hedy Jo Star, Combat Zone Couturière Twenty-eight. Scollay Square, Mother Church of the Combat Zone Twenty-nine. Crime in the Clubs Thirty. Andy and Robin Thirty-one. Ups and Downs at the Penthouse Thirty-two. Meeting Claire Thirty-three. California to Boston: A Fateful Letter, a Barking Omen Thirty-four. Slippery Seconds: Taxi Sex and Bookstore BJs Thirty-five. Death Rides a Medallion Thirty-six. Snowbunnies Thirty-seven. Rock and a Hard Place Thirty-eight. FNG: The Newbie Behind the Wheel Thirty-nine. From Slowpokes to Retahds: A Maniac's Boston Driving Manual Forty. Boyfriends, Girlfriends, Sponsors Forty-one. Cab for the Hab: New Hustles for an Old City Forty-two. She Who Supplied It Denied It Forty-three. Taxi in Black and White Forty-four. The Trouble with Bubbles Forty-five. Farewell to Arms Forty-six. Hooker in a Hurry Forty-seven. Unbottled Emotions Forty-eight. Pandora's End: Sammy Runbridge Forty-nine. Back into the Future Fifty. Last Days of the Combat Zone Appendix I. A Roster of Combat Zone Clubs, Theaters, Bookstores Appendix II. A Combat Zone Venue Owners Gazetteer Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface One. Crashing into the Zone Two. Claire at the Cat Three. On the Firing Line Four. Requiem for a Cabbie Five. New Town, Old City Six. No Breaks for the Famous Seven. The Caribe Lounge Eight. Stage Flight Nine. Into the Combat Zone Ten. Biting on the Lure of Glamour Eleven. The Arrival and Disappearance of Debra Beckerman Twelve. Princess in Paradise: The Cheyenne Story Thirteen. Circus at the Picc-a-dilly Fourteen. The Combat Zone's Miss Exotic Dance Contest of 1979 Fifteen. The Two O'Clock Lounge Sixteen. The Girls Can't Help It Seventeen. Switching Tracks: Transsexual Exotics in the Zone Eighteen. Shooting Stars: Photography in the Zone Nineteen. Chasing Chesty and the Ghosts of Burlesque Twenty. The Pilgrim Theatre, Chesty Morgan and the Final Days of Burlesque Twenty-one. Family du Jour with All the Trimmings Twenty-two. Paradise Calling Twenty-three. Curious Customers, Humiliating Habits Twenty-four. Suicides, Stiffed Fares and Beaten Women Twenty-five. An Evening with the Bitch of Boston Twenty-six. Grifters and Guam Twenty-seven. Hedy Jo Star, Combat Zone Couturière Twenty-eight. Scollay Square, Mother Church of the Combat Zone Twenty-nine. Crime in the Clubs Thirty. Andy and Robin Thirty-one. Ups and Downs at the Penthouse Thirty-two. Meeting Claire Thirty-three. California to Boston: A Fateful Letter, a Barking Omen Thirty-four. Slippery Seconds: Taxi Sex and Bookstore BJs Thirty-five. Death Rides a Medallion Thirty-six. Snowbunnies Thirty-seven. Rock and a Hard Place Thirty-eight. FNG: The Newbie Behind the Wheel Thirty-nine. From Slowpokes to Retahds: A Maniac's Boston Driving Manual Forty. Boyfriends, Girlfriends, Sponsors Forty-one. Cab for the Hab: New Hustles for an Old City Forty-two. She Who Supplied It Denied It Forty-three. Taxi in Black and White Forty-four. The Trouble with Bubbles Forty-five. Farewell to Arms Forty-six. Hooker in a Hurry Forty-seven. Unbottled Emotions Forty-eight. Pandora's End: Sammy Runbridge Forty-nine. Back into the Future Fifty. Last Days of the Combat Zone Appendix I. A Roster of Combat Zone Clubs, Theaters, Bookstores Appendix II. A Combat Zone Venue Owners Gazetteer Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
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