Los Angeles Strip Clubs: Alice Schiller, 95, co-owner of LA landmark Pink Pussycat, dies
Schiller owned the club with her husband, Harry, a former traveling salesman who ran a Beverly Hills, Calif., haberdashery before he plunged into the nightclub business in the late 1950s. Although it was his idea to turn what had been Club Seville, and then Jazz Seville, into a strip club, his wife had the vision that elevated it into a classy burlesque and supper house where husbands brought their wives for a night on the town.
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She also invented unique stage names for the strippers — including Fran Sinatra, Samya Davis Jr., Dina Martin, Peeler Lawford and Joie Bishop — that drew on the popularity of Frank Sinatra and the other members of the so-called Rat Pack of the era’s leading entertainers. That helped draw the Hollywood set, including the Rat Packers themselves, as well as politicians, sports figures, visiting dignitaries, wealthy businessmen and droves of tourists.
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