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The Birth of Lap Dancing

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Lap dancing was invented in the mid-70s at the Mitchell Brothers’ O’Farrell Theater in San Francisco, and I was there the week it happened. Jim and Artie Mitchell were a couple of pot-smoking, acid-tripping hippies who bought an old building in the Tenderloin and decided to convert it into a theater in 1969 for the… Read more »

The Birth of Lap Dancing

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The Mitchell Brothers’ O’Farrell Theater Makes Lap Dance History Lap dancing was invented in the mid-70s at the Mitchell Brothers’ O’Farrell Theater in San Francisco, and I was there the week it happened. Jim and Artie Mitchell were a couple of pot-smoking, acid-tripping hippies who bought an old building in the Tenderloin and decided to… Read more »