500 CLUB Notorious New Orleans Nite Club BOURBON St Hurricane Glass 1960s PRIMA

Description

Item: Glassware (Beverage)
Location:  500 Club (1940s established Adult "Jazz" Nightclub operated by Leon Prima (Louis' brother) notorious "who's who" hangout celebrity/mafia etc... turned into a 1960s burlesque club
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Bourbon Street, New Orleans
Design: HURRICANE (New Orleans drink of choice) Beverage Glass with Risque Girlie Label
Size: App. 32 oz / App. 9.75" Tall x 2.75" Diameter at mouth
Style: Hurricane Lamp shaped Glass
Year Made: 1960s70s (based on the girlie art) could be earlier
Condition:
Very Good shape, does have some wear and the label wasn't a solid plant as it looks like it has some glue smearing around the perimeter.
Very unique and very hard to find.  Great conversation piece.
Please review the pictures to grade for yourself.
Only 1 other glass of this kind remains on eBay (at time of listing)
Please view the pictures to look at the style and specifics
Plenty of listings & auctions to be listed.  Proceeds will be heading to one of our local effective charities and help pay for my daughter's college books and other costly things....  All who bid/buy you have my deepest thanks to help further her indoctrination um errr, education 😁
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500 CLUB
Status:
Closed
Parish:
Orleans
Location:
New Orleans
1940s era French Quarter Jazz club on corner of St. Louis & Bourbon: 441 Bourbon Street (now Bourbon Street Blues Company): From the New Orleans Jazz History Central Vieux Carre Walking Tour brochure: “One of the early jazz spots on Bourbon St., Prima’s 500 Club was operated by Leon Prima, Louis’s older brother and himself a trumpeter of some repute. Prima and Frank Federico were highlighted at the opening in 1946, and music historian Hank Kmen later played in the band here.”
True Burlesque 500 Club in New Orleans. Linda Brigette replaces Lilly Christine in a Glorious Dump
Burlesque Bourbon Style!
The best thing about the Bourbon Street 500 club (other than their STUNNING PRODUCTION VALUES on display here ("Get on the divan, honey") was that Clarence "Frogman" Henry performed there. Jeez…I wouldn't sit on that couch unless someone wiped it off with a towel like the slant board at my gym!
Seriously one…one of the premiere joints in the country, and the dancer had less than 6 feet to twirl in. The 500 club was a dump from the "glory days" of burlesque. They actually thought this shot was classy enough for their promotional postcards!  Here's another with Linda given a little more room...but not much.
One of the Prima brothers ran it at one time, but there was, of course, skullduggery in the books.
By 1971, 42 inch bust Sandra Sexton was stripping there for half-filled seats and the glamor which was never really there there ended for good. Just ten years before that, the joint was hot enough for the morals squad to raid the place…but the gate dropped like a loose pastie once real smut became available in the movies. By the 1970s no one cared enough to lift a finger, much less their head.
The stripper is the postcard above is Linda Brigette AKA Georgia Lambert. Her manager gave her the name Brigette hoping Bourbon Street drunks would mistake her name on the marquee as Brigitte Bardot. Bardot she, um… weren't. She wasn't a blonde either…fake. As for the rest of her? I'll leave that up to you. (Actually, I'll figure it out for you…rock hard early implants.)  Bourbon Street boulders. Sometimes Linda danced with a monkey, and I don't mean her husband. A REAL monkey.
Linda replaced Lilly "The Cat Girl" Christine when LIlly she died of peritonitis. Brigette clearly was no Lilly Christine either.
Scans/Photos of the actual items are shown.  Condition should also be considered by viewing the photos
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Or
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Further with the Federal closing of smaller post offices (mine included), it might take a couple extra days to arrive.
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