Season 4, Episode 2: Topless Roanoke

Sexing History by Gillian Frank & Lauren Gutterman

Jan 6, 2023Society & Culture

In the 1960s, Papa Joe’s in Roanoke, Virginia, became the very first club in the state and among the earliest in the nation to feature topless dancing. While some heralded Papa Joe’s owner, George Christofis, as a sexual...

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