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    The burlesque star/Jack Ruby consort/convict/Texas gal died Friday:

    Candy Barr, infamous 1950s stripper and stag film star once romantically linked to mobster Mickey Cohen and associated with Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby, has died. She was 70.

    Barr died Friday of pneumonia in an Abilene, Texas, hospital. She had lived quietly in her native south Texas for several years.


    LA Times obit

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    Rest Well, Candy!


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    "Candy Barr was born Juanita Slusher on July 6, 1935 in the rural town of Edna, Texas. The story of her life is the material that movies are made from. The hardships began with her mother dying when she was at the age of nine leaving her father to raise a family of five. He remarried to a woman with four children and together they had two more of their own. Life was hard within the large family and Juanita ran away from home several times, leaving for good when she was in ninth grade. While living in Dallas with one of her sisters young Juanita was forced at gunpoint to her first step to stardom. After meeting an older man at a club she went with him to his hotel and was forced into becoming the star of what became the most famous stag movie of the era, "Smart Alec"

    After passing through many jobs trying to scratch out a living she got her break into stripdom at Abe Weinstein's Colony Club. She soon became a top-biller and it was here that she became known as Candy Barr because of her appreciation for Snickers. It wasn't long before she became one of the top strippers in the country, eaning $100,000 a year with her 5'4" 38-22-36 curvaceous body."








    From: www.imagemakers.mb.ca/.../candy_barr/candy1.html

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    Is she the origin of the old saying "A Pair of 38s and a Real Gun"? LOL

    My life sob story & measurements are similar....way to go, Mexi-Mutt Strippers! Candy was La Original.

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    ...kind of like Anna Nicole Smith being from Mexia, Texas. Damn small towns.
    "Peter, did you take Stewie to a strip-club? He smells like sweat and fear." - Lois and Stewie (Family Guy) ... "Through early morning fog I see, Visions of the things to be, The pains that are withheld for me, I realize and I can see..."

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    It was burlesque, not just stripping. She had nice tits but a penchant for bad guys.
    I loved going to strip clubs; I actually made some friends there. Now things are different for the clubs and for me. As a result I am not as happy.

    Customers are not entitled to grope, disrespect, or rob strippers. This is their job, not their hobby, and they all need income. Clubs are not just some erotic show for guys to view while drinking.

    NOTE: anything I post here, outside of a direct quote, is my opinion only, which I am entitled to. Take it for what you estimate it is worth.

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    It was also porn, not just stripping, for anyone with illusions that the biz was so much cleaner back in the day, hah.

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