Classic Cat Vol. 1 No. 1
[The Classic Cat]North Hollywood: Seven Seventy Publishers, 1969.
First Edition.
28cm x 21.5cm. [60] pages, illustrations, some colour. Pictorial saddle-stapled wrappers.
Promotional magazine for the largest and most luxurious topless club of 1960s LA, The Classic Cat. Owned by Allan Wells, The Classic Cat on the Sunset Strip was an icon of Los Angeles’ strip club scene operating from the mid 1960s to the late 1970s at 8844 Sunset Boulevard. A new restaurant by the same name opened in the building next door in the 2000s and still operates today. The magazine features many of the club’s “kittens” on and off stage, as well as celebrity patrons of the club. Rare, unrecorded in OCLC.
Very minor shelf and handling wear. Near Fine Condition.
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AU$200