Mucky Melbourne

Barbara was a single mum and a stripper back in 1972 The lovely Barbara would be 73 this year and might even be a grandma.  What Barbara was doing back in the 70s is still considered by some as un-feminist immoral behaviour. I say to them, shut the fuck up and mind your own business. Truth, may 6 1972 MUMMY IS A STRIPPER 'THE BEST WAY TO KEEP THE CHILDREN' by Robert Berglund A mother of three, who was educated at a ladies college, is providing for her family by appearing in an all-off strip show – the Purple Knight Barbara Sinclair, 31, told me: “its the best way I know of to support my three children.” Barbara went to school at Strathern Ladies College in Hawthorn. She became a stripper after she was apporached by the man behind the Purple Knight, Roger (Duke) Carroll. She said “One day Roger and his wife came around and he talked about a show he planned to put on in Melbourne. He asked me if I was interested. He and his wife seemed pretty decent people so I...

The Argus – friday 24 June - 1949 POSED NUDE ON PIER While most Geelong residents were huddled around fires or wrapped in blankets a woman completely disrobed on Yarra St Pier to win a bet. The story revealed in Geelong City Court yesterday was that a man bet her that she was “not game” to do it. After she had taken up the challenge, it was alleged that the man disappeared without settling the bet. Police soon after found the woman wearing a fur coat. She was charged with having been drunk and disorderly. She was convicted and discharged after she told Mr. Blakiston, JP, that she was ashamed. from wikipedia Waterfront Geelong Yarra Street Pier is located at the end of Yarra Street and features a number of restaurants, as well as being the departure point for helicopter joyflights. The majority of the pier was destroyed by fire in 1988, but various proposals have been made for the rebuilding (pier image from googlemaps, fur coat woman from stock footage) ...

Not much has changed around stkilda in the last 65 years, People think streaking was a 1960s thing, looks like their grannies and grandpas loved a bit of skin on the beach too Women to invade male swimmers' nude refuge For the first time in 30 years Middle Park beach baths, sacred nude bathing place for men, were invaded yesterday by an inspector, who bluntly told the men: "Put some clothes on." Startled males, accustomed for years to the freedom of nudity in their regular swim, obeyed—by wearing a towel to the water's edge, then swimming in the nude . One Victorian M.P., a regular visitor, soon started a rebellion against the order. "Be blowed to it. Some of us have been swimming here in the nude since we were boys," he said. But their days of freedom are numbered. Mr. H. Alexander, South Melbourne town...

Doody the stripper, she was stripping in 1969, so if she was of legal age then she'd be in her 60s now. Thats something to make you think when you next see a woman in her 60s, it could be her, the legend who went from stripping to theatre! Ive tried a few things to find her but ive had no luck. Id love to see what shes up to now. it all started with the "hey whats going on" article i found in The Truth newspaper while looking for other stuff. Ive found a few mentions of the gallery owner too, he was a bit of a shit stirrer. Ill put that at the end of Doodys info. HEY, WHAT'S GOING ON? ... it's Doody and it's coming off! Middle-aged stockbrokers and teenage office girls peered out of windows of the drab, grey, Melbourne stock exchange as a busty former convent girl stripped at a premiere of the city's weirdest lunch-time strip show. Crowds of businessmen and more girls milled in the street outside as a band beat out heavy rock music to accom...