Danielle Colby Striptease Historian | The Queen of Rust

Candy

Added 2022-02-12 14:26:26 +0000 UTC

Standing silently in the wings at the Mousetrap Cabaret, “Candy” is bathed in white light from all around. This dancer is an angelic silhouette against the mouse trap cabaret. This photo was taken in 1975 when the Boston Globe hired Roswell Angier to document the combat zone of Boston just on the other side of Washington Street from Scully Square.

It is written that the mousetrap cabaret used to hold amateur strip contests in which the regular house performers, maybe even Candy here, would dress up differently and act like amateur strippers for the contest. I’m not sure why this caught my attention but it really just cracked me up. I mean, it’s not even surprising it just really made me giggle. I wonder if the guests were in on it or if they really tried to play it off like they had never stripped before? I have so many questions about how they tried to camouflage themselves and look differently and about how successful those nights were. I wonder what the conversations were like backstage? I wonder what candy said to the girls backstage right before this photo was taken. I wonder what happened immediately after this photo was taken, what did her routine look like? How did her costuming come apart? I can clearly see that there’s a zipper down the front and a tie at the top in the center in between her breasts so I can only imagine how she revealed out of that costume but I wish they were more photographs of this moment right here.

But hey, I’m incredibly thankful for this one moment with her. But really, Which song did she dance to? How much money did she make that night? …. So many questions.