Manager in Pittsburgh Trying to Get Me to Go to Bed With Him

I had worked in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at the Liberty Burlesk Theater dancing as a stripper quite a few times. I had decided to stay in Canton, Ohio for awhile; so I tried to book myself in some of the surrounding burlesk theaters - one of them was Pittsburgh.

I told the manager that I would like to work there from time to time. He said there was no problem - I could. He then said that there was only one stipulation. All the girls that worked for him regularly "kept him happy" when he needed it. I immediately told him that I would not - that "keeping him happy" when he needed it was not part of my show. He said, "Fine! Go back to Canton and wash dishes!" I said, "O.K.!"


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The Guy Eating Apricots....

There was a guy that used to come to the burlesque shows in Canton, Ohio that was from Wooster, Ohio. He was a little "slow". I teased him and called him the mayor of Wooster. When I was on the stge, and would see him sitting in the audience, I would holler out, "There's the mayor of Wooster!"

One day I was in the theater eating dried apricots. I asked him if he wanted one. He seemed to like them; so I offered him more. He ate almost the whole bag.

The next time he came to the show he told me that the apricots had had a laxative effect on him. All of us laughed so much. He said, "on my way home, they made me shit!"

He said it took a week to get the smell out of the car. His mother wanted to go for a ride before the smell had gone away. I said, "What did you tell her?" He said, "I told her Oh! Not today, Mom!"