Mucky Melbourne

East Brunswick Club Booby Bar Like a lot of trendy inner city pubs, the East Brunswick Club was once a bar for people who liked to look at tits while having their lunch or dinner Great for business men who need an "important conference interlude".

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...

:crazyhorse: its the longest running cinema in the cbd of Melbourne it was originally a coffee house opened 1952 to play mainly newsreel originally had 234 seats, now its 100 located in the basement of Carlow House, which was designed by architect Harry Norris in 1939 name changed from The Star Newsreel Theatre to Star Theatrette (1963) then to Crazyhorse (1985) 1963 started screening feature films, the 1st was "Varietease" (starring Betty Page), then spent 20 years playing mainly exploitation and sexploitation films closed for repairs after a fire in 2007 people have been known to buy a ticket on a weekend night and have a snooze down the back while waiting for the first trains to start open 24 hours from Thursday morning to Sunday night 6 new movies weekly - changed each Friday morning Live on stage strip shows - every hour, on the hour from 11am daily Cinema ticket   provides all day, multiple entry access. :me & the crazyhorse: I've only vis...

Why am I doing this blog? I'll tell you a little story. A while ago I was at a bar chatting with friends and made a comment about finding out that the Crazy Horse cinema was the CBDs longest running cinemas, we chatted about porn cinemas and porn shops and which one had closed, which one were still around. I made a comment that someone should do a book or something about Melbourne's adult entertainment history. They all turned to me and said I should do it. And that's how it started. First it was just porn shops and cinemas, when they opened and what was there before them. Then while researching in the state library's newspaper archives I found lots of other info about censorship, protests, outrage, etc. You know, the usual stuff tabloid journalism thrives off.  The more I dug, the more interesting it became. Ive read a few books, one called Secret Histories of Queer Melbourne (by Graham Willett) and another Madame Brussels, this moral pandemonium (by L.M. Robinson) and...