Soho sleaze and striptease

(20-10-2016 15:55 )shaun blue Wrote:  

(15-10-2016 12:47 )Kevin555 Wrote:  Sorry to inform the Vintage Mag Shop is no more.

Well I'm a bit shocked at this news. I always regarded that shop as one of Soho's landmarks. I've found an article in my local paper though which says the Vintage Magazine Shop is going to continue online.

Hello Shaun,

Some good news for you The shop is back see below
http://vintagemagazinecompany.co.uk/en/c...4-about-us

I really hope that it continues, it was an icon shop, shame it is not in the traditional location but something is better than nothing

It is the same for the ladies clothing shop Almost Famous another shop I am glad survived

http://www.aflondon.com/

(12-10-2016 14:36 )andyjb Wrote:  The episode in question is " Could You Recognise the Man Again? "

https://youtu.be/yflu4zzFLlE?t=38m49s

I ended up watching the whole episode. At the very beginning there are some shots of Old Compton Street and Frith Street. Most old footage of Soho seems to be at night, but these are daytime shots, so a good chance to get a clear glimpse of Soho as it was in 1969.

(23-10-2016 23:47 )elgar1uk Wrote:  

(12-10-2016 14:36 )andyjb Wrote:  The episode in question is " Could You Recognise the Man Again? "

https://youtu.be/yflu4zzFLlE?t=38m49s

I ended up watching the whole episode. At the very beginning there are some shots of Old Compton Street and Frith Street. Most old footage of Soho seems to be at night, but these are daytime shots, so a good chance to get a clear glimpse of Soho as it was in 1969.

Hello Elgar,
Not sure where you are located but if you can get to Eastcastle St/Great Titchfield Street a visit to the Getty Gallery has the Soho exhibition, lots of the images we have on this post and plenty of others, prints are available at £180.00 in Gelatin , to much for me and no catalogue, so I have been 4 times, and as free great value

(24-10-2016 15:49 )Kevin555 Wrote:  the Getty Gallery has the Soho exhibition, lots of the images we have on this post and plenty of others

Talking of Getty images I came across these two (from April 1961):
http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/photos/stri...ostpopular

Club Folies Revue on the left I can't place the location and the image doesn't help much either. I think the pavement is the only clue!

The interesting thing about the image on the right is the claim to be "Strip Show Of The Year"!

(02-11-2016 14:37 )elgar1uk Wrote:  

(24-10-2016 15:49 )Kevin555 Wrote:  the Getty Gallery has the Soho exhibition, lots of the images we have on this post and plenty of others

Talking of Getty images I came across these two (from April 1961):
http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/photos/stri...ostpopular

Club Folies Revue on the left I can't place the location and the image doesn't help much either. I think the pavement is the only clue!

The interesting thing about the image on the right is the claim to be "Strip Show Of The Year"!

Hi Elgar

Spoke to the guys, one person remembered the Follies club, but on closer inspection the image was taken in 1961 but the location escapes him and no idea who awarded them Strip Sow of the Year.
One thing he did say was that between the 1960s and the 1970s a lot of clubs changed their names, presumably with operators of the clubs or because they were reopening after being closed/raided.
He did thing however that it may have been in one of the Courts eg. Tilsbury Court or Rupert Court.
I have done searches but can find nothing at all.
Hopefully we can find some other information

(20-10-2016 19:03 )Kevin555 Wrote:  Some good news for you The shop is back see below
http://vintagemagazinecompany.co.uk/en/c...4-about-us

I really hope that it continues, it was an icon shop, shame it is not in the traditional location but something is better than nothing

I agree with you, I've always felt it was iconic. Another good bit of Soho gone! Still as you say it's good that it survives in some form.

(02-11-2016 16:32 )Kevin555 Wrote:  He did thing however that it may have been in one of the Courts eg. Tilsbury Court or Rupert Court.

That's very interesting to hear, because I also thought that Club Folies may have been in one of the courts. Although I was thinking St. Anne's Court, as I know there were several clubs along there and I can't recall the names of them all.

Hi,
Had a stinking cold so have not been out and about for a while and things of interest have been happening.
I am semi-retired and was out in Soho with a friend on Friday, we saw an open bed lorry loaded up with, corrugated iron sheets, paving slabs and wall architecture, (The things used to hold pubs signs, lights etc.) Spoke to the driver they were being taken to a salvage yard in Kent.
Of interest is when checking the locations things look the same but are different, my friend was saying that in the 1980s Westminster Council made Soho get its house in order, a lot of the paving slabs were slate and beginning to break, so were replaced by concrete slabs, the wall architecture had in fallen on to the pavement below on a few occasions and so was replaced. The corrugated sheets were used during renovations. As far as I can tell the sheet with Casino De Paris was not among them. In effect this means there is a warehouse/storage area in Soho with relics of the past locked up would be worth a visit. In my conversation I had forgotten to ask where the goods were collected from but the lorry was in Peter Street

(10-11-2016 13:32 )elgar1uk Wrote:  

(02-11-2016 16:32 )Kevin555 Wrote:  He did thing however that it may have been in one of the Courts eg. Tilsbury Court or Rupert Court.

That's very interesting to hear, because I also thought that Club Folies may have been in one of the courts. Although I was thinking St. Anne's Court, as I know there were several clubs along there and I can't recall the names of them all.

Hello Elgar
St Ann's Court is the choice of the guys as opposed to Tilsbury or Rupert Court

(18-10-2016 11:26 )marlowe Wrote:  

(15-10-2016 18:46 )Kevin555 Wrote:  Back to Noel Street, in the 1970s an unlicensed drinking club opened, it was unlicensed rather that “Near Beer” operated by a couple from Kent. They had topless barmaid and strippers, the girls were not from the usual rota which served the main strip clubs, on Saturday nights once a month they had stag nights with Blue Shows, the attraction of the place was it was not a Clip Joint, prices were higher than pubs but in line with clubs. After about 2 years it was raided and closed down.
About a year later it re-opened but as a clip joint, raided and closed again.
After about a year it re-opened run by the original Kentish couple but as a “Near Beer” bar, with hostesses and a VIP Room, this was basically an area where you could have extras with the girls, again it had stag nights at the weekend, never a clip Joint but the prices had increased.one again raided and closed down.

I can't offer any information, although I often walked down Noel Street in those days. I had no idea that anything like this happened there!

Hi,
On the above found out a bit more, the place on Noel Street had sister establishments one in Carlisle Street and the other in Holborn. Today Carlisle Street has a Gentlemen’s Club called The Vanity do not know if there is a connection, no information on the place in Holborn.
One thing is the girls almost all came from the YWCA on Weymouth Street
I knew these places existed but Soho promised more than it delivered, in fact it was mainly the pub strippers who did the live blue shows, rather than Soho
So any other information would be welcomed.