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I am super excited about this pin. A good friend of mine used to work there years ago, so I immediately got it for her. She lives in LA now, but still has fond memories (mammories) of the Lusty Lady!

Found on Vanishing Seattle.

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Black queer cis femme Teresa Ellis worked as a stripper at the Lusty Lady for 13 years (before and after it was unionized), founded one of the first Black burlesque troupes (Harlem Shake), raised a kid, and now teaches fat-positive Pilates classes out of her Oakland home. She's also also had a slew of other jobs, from phone sex operator to real estate agent. Hear about them all in this episode. Sponsored by the Bay Area Artists Report. Read the transcript here. Listen to the interview here or in iTunes.

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** The Theories Behind Nirvana's Smiley Face **

But that still doesn't really explain where and why Kurt created this particular image. Another very solid theory is the The Lusty Lady men's club theory. The Lusty Lady Strip Club was located on First Avenue in Seattle, where Kurt most certainly attended. Check out the club's happy face logo at the bottom on the marquis.

Unfortunately, the answer to this burning question of the reason behind the sketch was buried with it's creator back in 1994, and Kurt keeping us guessing and talking and wondering seems exactly his style.

http://alt929boston.com/2017/07/18/theories-behind-nirvanas-smiley-face/

HISTORY OF THE NIRVANA SMILEY FACE

To this day, every time I see the Nirvana "blissed out" smiley face with the drooling mouth and crossed-out eyes, a part of me gets transported back in time before wife, kids and mortgage.About a month ago I heard the recognizable sounds of Smells Like Teen Spirit coming from my oldest daughter's bedroom. As I walked down the hall I could see her jumping up and down, moshing in her private pit. I stopped, took it in for a second, turned around and left her with her music. I'm pretty sure I felt a smile come over me.

https://www.boldfacegear.com/blogs/music/nirvana-smiley-face-whats-the-story-behind-the-image

THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN OF ROCK LOGOS

7. NIRVANA: SMILEY FACE. Designer – Kurt Cobain, 1991.Singer, lead guitarist and chief songwriter Kurt Cobain originally drew the enigmatic "smiley face" logo for a poster advertising the release party for Nirvana's breakthrough album, Nevermind, on September 13, 1991.The band's typography had already been decided – at random – for their debut album, Bleach, on Sub Pop Records in 1989. Eager to cut costs, Lisa Orth, the label's art director, told designer Grand Alden to use whatever font happened to be programmed into his typesetter. It was a font called Onyx – which still endures on the band's merchandise.

Various theories have been put forward for the inspiration of Cobain's disconcerting sketch. Some believe it was based on the emblem of a former strip club, The Lusty Lady, in Seattle – around 150kms from the band's home town, Aberdeen, in Washington State.But "the smiley face" – usually drawn in black on a yellow background – had been around since at least 1964 when American graphic artist Harvey Ball was paid $US45 to create a motif for a morale-boasting symbol for employees of an assurance company.The truth about the Nirvana version – also usually portrayed in black on yellow – died with Cobain in 1994. But given his suicide and drug history, there's something bizarrely contradictory between the name he gave his band – referencing the final goal of Buddhism, a transcendental state when the soul is released from the cycle of death and rebirth – and the out-of-control, out-on-the-town imagery of his sketch.It's the combination of the two that give the logo its power – though, ultimately, neither would be remembered if not for the continuing resonance of Nirvana's back catalogue. http://www.afr.com/lifestyle/the-magnificent-seven-of-rock-logos-20161003-grtul8#ixzz4nFMchwPy

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“Mr. Friday at noon said he was misunderstood by women. I pointed out that Einstein was also misunderstood. Mr. Friday erupted in anger, slamming the glass and trying to get his money back. He said Einstein had been married twice, so he was at least understood by two women and what kind of an idiot slut was I, anyway? He then settled down and proceeded to tell me, in lurid detail, just what kind of a stupid slut I actually was.The majority of the customers just wanted to talk to a pretty girl about a fantasy; nothing real, and nothing sinister. It was the three or four customers a day like Mr. Tuesday at 10 p.m. and worse (much, much worse) that began to haunt me.Until then, the grunge music scene had never really moved me, but it was at this point that I began to relate to the angry, atonal noise that spewed from the jukebox. The songs were mostly tracks from local Seattle bands my sister had been dragging me to see for years at The Off Ramp, Central Tavern, and house parties on Bainbridge Island–bands like Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Mother Love Bone, and Nirvana.As I listened day after day to betrayals, degradations, and just plain sicknesses, all the while having to smile and look my best, the punk-infused songs began to make sense. The music was about knowing what people wanted from you and refusing to give it to them on their terms. The upper-middle class kids on Bainbridge and the dancers from the city high schools had one thing in common: They weren’t going to live their parents’ boring repressed lives no matter what.I saw the way the dancers needed the music: Veronica swinging her dark hair with abandon and spinning around the stage when any song from the newly released In Uteroplayed and a customer had given her the curt hand signal that meant “turn around and bend over”; Wren lifting her leg up and slamming her platform heel into the mirrored wall in protest when a song from Hole’s album Pretty on the Inside started skipping and she had just had a customer walk out on her.The songs helped me deal with the talkers on my terms. And my terms were that I could smile and smile, but I was going to record every word they said in my journals. I liked Pearl Jam’s “Black.” I think it’s a song about a break-up, but I liked the idea of being able to tattoo over memories. All the images from my Private Pleasures shift could be inked out of existence for me with my black pen. If I got down the lies and betrayals on paper and away from my soul, it would just be so many stories in a notebook and nothing real.The lyrics from Nirvana’s song “Francis Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle” were my personal favorite: “She’ll come back as fire and burn all the liars.” That was like a promise of my life without the talkers. A day in the future when I didn’t need them to pay my rent and I could burn all their words.Then one morning in early April of 1994, Kurt Cobain killed himself. I wasn’t shocked. It was no secret he was a tortured soul. But Kurt had been my personal frontman for the whole Seattle music scene. I instantly focused on his wife, Courtney. For better or worse, she had been his soulmate and I desperately needed to hear from her.“ Goodbye To All That”–A Dancer Remembers The Lusty Lady of ’94 HOPE YOU FOUND YOUR NIRVANA, KURT R.I.P. “If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.” - Kurt Cobain

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