Los Angeles Strip Clubs: Banana museum is the latest quirky institution to give LA the slip
The Frederick’s Lingerie Museum was dismantled in 2005 after the naughty-underwear emporium filed for bankruptcy and switched locations on Hollywood Boulevard. The owners said there was no room for the celebrity underthings, which were packed off to a warehouse in Phoenix (Phoenix!).
So much history lost. In 1992, a remorseful young man walked in to the Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Hollywood and dropped off two items he had looted from the Lingerie Museum during the L.A. riots: a bra belonging to actress Katey Sagal (of TV’s “Married With Children”) and some pantaloons of the late actress Ava Gardner.
The Rev. Robert Fambrini said the looter had also sought a bra once worn by Madonna but “it was already gone when he went in.” It was never recovered.
The Exotic World museum, founded by stripper Jenny (Miss 44 and Plenty More) Lee, moved to Helendale, a Mojave Desert town, when her health began to fail. She died in 1990 and Exotic World became the Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas.
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