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Mushashi7

10-23-2008, 05:40 AM

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Sally Rand's Nude Ranch, 1939.

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The Chicago fair opened May 27, 1933, and drew 39,000,000 visitors. Like the Treasure Island fair, it was repeated a year later. The Century of Progress is, incidentally, one of the few world’s fairs that did not lose money.

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This was the fair that made Sally Rand famous. She had been a nightclub cigarette girl and dancer, and joined a chorus line at the fair. She was arrested for an “obscene” performance, and was catapulted to fame. It is said her act, in Chicago, grossed $6,000 per week during the depths of the Depression. After the Chicago fair closed she performed in vaudeville, motion pictures, expositions in Texas and San Diego, then came to San Francisco in anticipation of the 1939 Treasure Island World’s Fair.
The Nude Ranch was just one of several “flesh” shows at the Treasure Island Fair.

Advertisement. Hiring girls for the show:

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Sally Rands Nude Ranch:

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The year was 1936 and I was ten. We traveled out west in one car to meet our two brothers that lived in Wink, Texas. In the car were the other three brothers (including me), two sisters, one with a baby and my dad making the arduous trip long before the days of air-conditioning.

I remember the highlight of the trip as our stop in Ft. Worth where we spent the night and took in the Casa Ma?ana show at the fair grounds.

My dad and my adult brother decided see the Billy Rose production called Sally Rand's Nude Ranch.* It was very mild by today's standards compared to what you now see on television. My brother Sam was only a year older than me, so our dad gave us money for the rides while they went to see the show.

We chose to start with the Ferris wheel...etc.

George Lester
September 1, 2003

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Sally Rand

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