65 Years Ago Today…


Meet Miss Virginia Kinn, PM Daily, Photo by Bernie Aumuller, April 13, 1947

Virginia Kinn is a 23-year-old burlesque stripteaser. When she’s in the metropolitan area, she has to play across the river at the Hudson Theater, Union City, or the Empire Theater in Newark because of the local license regulations. “Being in burlesque is like just like any other job,” she said. “As far as own time, we live like anybody else lives – we eat and we sleep. A lot of people have the wrong impression. They think we’re freaks or something…


Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 11, 1947

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