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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Geoff AlexanderPublisher: McFarland & Co Inc Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.358kg ISBN: 9781476692050ISBN 10: 147669205 Pages: 269 Publication Date: 28 March 2023 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgments Preface One. Crashing into the Zone Two. Claire at the Cat Three. On the Firing Line Four. Requiem for a Cabbie Five. New Town, Old City Six. No Breaks for the Famous Seven. The Caribe Lounge Eight. Stage Flight Nine. Into the Combat Zone Ten. Biting on the Lure of Glamour Eleven. The Arrival and Disappearance of Debra Beckerman Twelve. Princess in Paradise: The Cheyenne Story Thirteen. Circus at the Picc-a-dilly Fourteen. The Combat Zone’s Miss Exotic Dance Contest of 1979 Fifteen. The Two O’Clock Lounge Sixteen. The Girls Can’t Help It Seventeen. Switching Tracks: Transsexual Exotics in the Zone Eighteen. Shooting Stars: Photography in the Zone Nineteen. Chasing Chesty and the Ghosts of Burlesque Twenty. The Pilgrim Theatre, Chesty Morgan and the Final Days of Burlesque Twenty-one. Family du Jour with All the Trimmings Twenty-two. Paradise Calling Twenty-three. Curious Customers, Humiliating Habits Twenty-four. Suicides, Stiffed Fares and Beaten Women Twenty-five. An Evening with the Bitch of Boston Twenty-six. Grifters and Guam Twenty-seven. Hedy Jo Star, Combat Zone Couturière Twenty-eight. Scollay Square, Mother Church of the Combat Zone Twenty-nine. Crime in the Clubs Thirty. Andy and Robin Thirty-one. Ups and Downs at the Penthouse Thirty-two. Meeting Claire Thirty-three. California to Boston: A Fateful Letter, a Barking Omen Thirty-four. Slippery Seconds: Taxi Sex and Bookstore BJs Thirty-five. Death Rides a Medallion Thirty-six. Snowbunnies Thirty-seven. Rock and a Hard Place Thirty-eight. FNG: The Newbie Behind the Wheel Thirty-nine. From Slowpokes to Retahds: A Maniac’s Boston Driving Manual Forty. Boyfriends, Girlfriends, Sponsors Forty-one. Cab for the Hab: New Hustles for an Old City Forty-two. She Who Supplied It Denied It Forty-three. Taxi in Black and White Forty-four. The Trouble with Bubbles Forty-five. Farewell to Arms Forty-six. Hooker in a Hurry Forty-seven. Unbottled Emotions Forty-eight. Pandora’s End: Sammy Runbridge Forty-nine. Back into the Future Fifty. Last Days of the Combat Zone Appendix I. A Roster of Combat Zone Clubs, Theaters, Bookstores Appendix II. A Combat Zone Venue Owners Gazetteer Chapter Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsWe Weren't Angels is a remarkably vivid, detailed account of Boston's infamous Combat Zone which proves to be a compelling, seductive reading experience. Although non-fiction, in the capable hands of Geoff Alexander, it is as riveting as the best of fiction. Mr. Alexander gives us an eyewitness account and writes with the power and insight of a fine novelist. An utterly gripping and often unnerving landscape rich in detail written by one who was there. In his unflinching portrait of people and events, he spares no one including himself. Highly recommended! --Dean Barrett, author, Hangman's Point, Skytrain to Murder and Kingdom of Make Believe For a trip to a place and time like no other, accompany Geoff Alexander on a narrative journey through Boston's notorious Combat Zone, a tour you won't likely forget soon. Part memoir, part research paper, Alexander's book takes you into the pounding, pulsating heart of erotic commerce, with salacious, humorous and yet compassionate portraits of the dancers, hookers, bartenders, street cops and others who kept the wheels of fantasy turning. --Stephanie Schorow, author of Inside the Combat Zone: The Stripped Down Story of Boston's Most Notorious Neighborhood In this tour-de-force of memoir and research, Geoff Alexander offers a unique view of Boston's famed Combat Zone at its raucous height in the late 1970s into the 80s. He incorporates little-explored perspectives: not only those of the female dancers and male customers at the Zone's many strip clubs, but also those of the district's cab drivers (of whom he was one, while married to a dancer), transgender performers, club owners, talent agents, costume designers, bartenders, police detectives, mobsters, musicians, photographers, drug dealers, petty thieves, pimps, urban planners, and politicians. Meticulously researched, this book offers a panoramic and often disturbing view of the history of commercialized sex work in one of the most storied Red Light districts in the U.S. Some of us made it out with tales to tell (perhaps not to the grandchildren). Others fared much worse. We all come to life in this riveting, unforgettable telling of a quintessentially American tale. --Lauri Umansky (as Lauri Lewin), author, Naked is the Best Disguise: My Life As a Stripper "In this tour-de-force of memoir and research, Geoff Alexander offers a unique view of Boston's famed Combat Zone at its raucous height in the late 1970s into the 80s. He incorporates little-explored perspectives: not only those of the female dancers and male customers at the Zone's many strip clubs, but also those of the district's cab drivers (of whom he was one, while married to a dancer), transgender performers, club owners, talent agents, costume designers, bartenders, police detectives, mobsters, musicians, photographers, drug dealers, petty thieves, pimps, urban planners, and politicians. Meticulously researched, this book offers a panoramic and often disturbing view of the history of commercialized sex work in one of the most storied Red Light districts in the U.S. Some of us made it out with tales to tell (perhaps not to the grandchildren). Others fared much worse. We all come to life in this riveting, unforgettable telling of a quintessentially American tale.""—Lauri Umansky (as Lauri Lewin), author, Naked is the Best Disguise: My Life As a Stripper" Author InformationGeoff Alexander has authored two books on cinema and has written on musical subjects ranging from jazz history to flamenco. He is the founder and director of the Academic Film Archive of North America, in San Jose, California, the first archive solely dedicated to the history, preservation, and scholarship of the classroom educational film. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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