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Legendary San Francisco stripper Carol Doda, whose splashy act helped introduce topless entertainment to the city more than 50 years ago, died at age 78. Doda died Monday in the city from ...

San Francisco’s own Botticelli’s Venus was nightclub dancing goddess Carol Doda, her scallop shell a white baby grand piano supported by hydraulics and descending from a hole in the ceiling rather ...

It’s funny to think that the birth of our country’s strip clubs traces back to a total drip like Barry Goldwater, but that conservative also-ran was in San Francisco to accept the Republican Party’s ...

Carol Doda, arguably the world's most famous stripper and an icon of San Francisco's counterculture, passed away Monday at the age of 78, friends and media reports confirm. Born in Solano County in ...