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	Exotic World Burlesque Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The museum documents the history of burlesque from its 19th century origins through its golden age in the mid 20th century, and displays artifacts commemorating historic burlesque performers.
		In late 2005, the museum was temporarily closed for inventory and renovations in the wake of Arroyo's unexpected death and significant weather damage to the museum facilities.
		Each year a burlesque performer is crowned Miss Exotic World in a contest often referred to as the Miss America of burlesque.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Exotic_World_Burlesque_Museum (649 words)

	Daily Press archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Exotic World is a tour throught the burlesque history of America.
		Burlesque dancers helped bring the country out of depression and entertained young sailors and privates before they went to war, she said.Every June the museum hosts a burlesque reunion, where a Miss Exotic World is chosen.
		The museum’s main function is to collect, interpret, preserve and display the history of Edwards and the birthplace of supersonic flight.
	www.vvdailypress.com /2001-2003/98352000031496.html (1392 words)

	Exotic World in Helendale, California
		Once the private residence of famed dancer Jennie Lee, Exotic World is the only museum in the world dedicated exclusively to preserving the art and artifacts of the golden age of Burlesque.
		Following her death in 1990, Jennie's friend and fellow Burlesque veteran Dixie Evans quit her job and moved out to the ranch to help transform Jennie's collection into "Exotic World, Home of the Movers and Shakers' Burlesque Museum and Striptease Hall of Fame".
		Burlesque's golden age, which featured flirtatious feathered striptease artists, began in the '20s and ended in the '50s.
	www.legendsofamerica.com /CA-ExoticWorld.html (439 words)

	Tags: lcs: Cultural,Museum
		A museum devoted solely to barbed wire, displaying hundreds of exotic varieties, with information on the impact of barbed wire in the settlement of the midwest, in range wars between the homesteaders and cattlemen, and the transformation of the open...
		A complex of museums and exhibits, located next to a rural RV park, features a display of 7,000 tropical invertebrates, giant insects, and artifacts from tropical areas of the world, collected by the museum's founder, who amassed one of the largest...
		A museum to James Jesse Strang, who managed to lure some 2,000 Mormons away from Brigham Young, to this island in Lake Michigan, where he was crowned king of his people and ruled from 1848 to 1856, when he was assasinated.
	ludb.clui.org /tag/lcs:Cultural/Museum (1027 words)

	Blahg » California’s Exotic Desert
		Exotic World is also home to the Miss Exotic World Pageant, currently celebrating its sixteenth year as “the world’s premiere competitive burlesque event.” Burlesque, a form of entertainment popular in America until the 1930s, included comedic impersonations and risqué dancing mocking the upper classes.
		As I wandered the musty halls of Exotic World, I was struck by the wealth of American history within reach.
		And the museum’s goods are in need of a new space, one not so far from the public where the goods can be better protected.
	tanjaladen.com /?p=7 (533 words)

	Exotic World Burlesque Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When Jennie fell ill with breast cancer, she and Charlie moved out to an abandoned goat farm in the middle of the Mojave desert, promptly evicting the farm's four-footed tenants in favor of creating a suitable space for her ever-expanding collection.
		Following her death in 1990, Jennie's friend and fellow Burlesque veteran Dixie Evans quit her job and moved out to the ranch to help transform Jennie's collection into "Exotic World, Home of the Movers & Shakers' Burlesque Museum & Striptease Hall of Fame".
		As news of the museum continued to spread, people from all over the world started to send additional items, and the museum eventually took over the entire farm.
	www.exoticworldusa.org /history2.html (262 words)

	Paradise Regained (Metro Times Detroit) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Exotic World — the world’s only burlesque museum, located in the middle of the Mojave Desert — has grown from a relatively obscure roadside attraction to one that grabs national headlines with its annual Miss Exotic World burlesque pageant.
		The museum is dedicated to reuniting the living legends of burlesque, and functions as an emotional and vital liaison between the new performers of today and the tassel-twirling starlets of decades past.
		Burlesque generally referred to the vaudeville shows in theaters, which included comedians and chorus girls along with strippers — in other words, the package deal.
	www.metrotimes.com /editorial/story.asp?id=8034 (3406 words)

	Eye Weekly - Up with Burley Q! - 02.12.04
		While it's true that you'll make a lot more money in the mainstream world of sex by acting dumb than by being challenging (and Von Teese is smart enough to grasp this), her statement denies the essence of the art form from which she does brisk business.
		Burlesque's core is satire, and satire has been around for as long as people have required subversion to vent about things that piss them off: politics, religion, sexual oppression, vanity and family.
		In her former life, Tracey was a stripper known as Fonda Peters, and while burlesque (the mid-century version of it, anyway) was winding down, she was winding up: she dressed as Little Red Riding Hood onstage, handed out condoms and cut off clients' ties.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_02.12.04/film/anatomyofburlesque.html (351 words)

	Adventures in Tassel Twirling \| Features \| The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
		I'm headed to the Miss Exotic World competition, which for some reason is being held on a goat farm in hell—Helendale, California, to be precise, which is halfway between L.A. and Las Vegas—along a road that someone forgot to finish.
		As burlesquers strutted and teased their way across stage, many of the men in the audience put their coats on their laps and masturbated during the show.
		Miss Indigo's act is sexy, clever, and deserving of the title Miss Exotic World, however, the crown passes from reigning queen Dirty Martini to Michelle L'amour (and her ass that goes POW!).
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=22120 (3106 words)

	Bump-and-grind world revealed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The scene is part of "Pretty Things," and the woman slinking across stage in satin is the documentary's director, Liz Goldwyn, 27, who spent almost a decade exploring the bump-and-grind world of burlesque and eventually learned enough to capture her own shimmy on screen.
		Burlesque and striptease were not well-documented parts of history until recently.
		Britton, who said she hated her time in burlesque, admitted the stripteasers were mostly viewed as objects.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05198/538046.stm (817 words)

	Miss Exotic World Pageant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Miss Exotic World Pageant (officially, the Miss Exotic World Pageant and Striptease Reunion) is an annual burlesque pageant and convention, and is the annual showcase event (and fundraiser for) the Exotic World Burlesque Museum.
		Because of the significance of the Exotic World Burlesque Museum to the burlesque community, winning the pageant is considered a top honor for a burlesque performer.
		Exotic World Museum curator Dixie Evans initiated the Miss Exotic World pageant in 1990 as a way to draw people to the museum.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Miss_Exotic_World_Pageant (543 words)

	The Crown Jewels of Burlesque, Retired Strippers Gather Annually To Celebrate The World Of Burlesque - CBS News
		The Exotic World Burlesque Museum is a repository of rare artifacts, such as jeweled encrusted underwear, appearing both dazzling and terribly uncomfortable.
		Burlesque is making something of a comeback, with young revivalists staging shows in clubs and theaters across the country.
		She's been keeping Exotic World open with her Social Security checks, but hopes now to use pageant proceeds to spruce the place up and perhaps open a home for retired strippers — if they would ever stop taking it off.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/06/13/sunday/main558631.shtml (1002 words)

	village voice > nyclife > Loitering by Silke Tudor
		The women are the original "Bazoom Girl" Jennie Lee, who started Exotic World and founded the Exotic Dancers' League of America, and Dixie Evans, the "Marilyn Monroe of burlesque," who became both guardian angel and curator of Lee's legacy when the "biggest bust in burlesque" finally succumbed to breast cancer in 1990.
		Situated in Helendale, California, the Exotic World Burlesque Museum and Hall of Fame sits on an abandoned goat farm in the middle of the Mojave Desert a third of the way between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
		The World Famous BOB is herself much more relaxed once she has stripped down to pasties, panties, and high heels, the sum total of her outfit for the remainder of the three-hour show.
	www.villagevoice.com /nyclife/0621,tudor,73297,15.html (1262 words)

	Vamp camp (Metro Times Detroit) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Exotic World Burlesque Museum is a sparkling journey through past and present, for women of all ages, shapes and sizes.
		The museum’s curator is the seventysomething Dixie Evans, once known as the Marilyn Monroe of burlesque.
		The museum actively tracks down living legends and invites them out to the pageant weekend, along with a chance to come out of retirement — women in their 60s, 70s and 80s, on stage, stripping, right beside starlets a third their age.
	www.metrotimes.com /editorial/story.asp?id=8033 (401 words)

	Exotic World Burlesque Museum - Helendale, CA, 92342 - Citysearch
		The world's largest collection of stripper memorabilia fronting as a dusty Mojave ranch.
		(Now in her 70s, Evans traveled the exotic dance circuit from 1949 to 1962 as "The Marilyn Monroe of Burlesque." Sometimes, she invites visitors into her home for a moment of silent contemplation before the ashes of her friend, dancer Sherry Champagne.
		When to Go Every summer, Exotic World hosts a gathering for old-timers and youngsters eager to learn the old moves.
	losangeles.citysearch.com /profile/526916 (207 words)

	New Burlesque - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		New Burlesque is a form of entertainment that primarily continues, reconstructs, reproduces and honors the style of American burlesque traditions.
		Burlesque as a sensation was brought to America from England in the late 1860s by Lydia Thompson and her British Blondes, a troupe who spoofed traditional theatrical productions and featured ladies performing men’s roles, in costumes considered revealing for the time period.
		There are modern burlesque performers and shows all over the world, and annual conventions such as Tease-O-Rama, New York Burlesque Festival, and the Miss Exotic World Pageant.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Burlesque (468 words)

	SALON Daily Clicks: Newsreal
		At Miss Exotic World, the strippers are old enough to be your grandmother, but they still know a thing or two about the erotic arts.
		Like the old Route 66 signs and boarded-up orange juice stands on the way here, Exotic World is an echo of a different era, when Cadillacs had fins and strippers wore gloves, feathers and tasseled pasties.
		Today, old-style burlesque is for all commercial purposes defunct, and the dancers of that era either dead or retired.
	www.salon.com /july97/news/news970709.html (1169 words)

	Blues and Burlesque
		International burlesque sensation, Miss Dirty Martini, is one of the most recognized names in new burlesque.
		In 1997, she traveled to Sarajevo, to perform her show-stopping fan dance to a shell shocked public shortly after the peace accord was signed and the Serbian siege had ended.
		She has performed twice with The Velvet Hammer Burlesque at the historic El Ray Theater in Hollywood, CA and returned to the West Coast last September for Tease-o-rama in San Francisco.
	www.bluesandburlesque.com /models/martini.html (396 words)

	Dixie Evans Photo Gallery
		Dixie showed the world through her routines how Marilyn would look and act like if she were a stripper.
		Dixie began her career in Burlesque at the El Rey theater in Oakland in 1952 and worked the Kane circuit and houses through Dayton, Cleveland, Chicago and Boston.
		Retiring in 1967 Dixie has been running Exotic World: The Strippers Hall of Fame and Museum, which she had taken over from her friend Jennie Lee.
	www.imagemakers.mb.ca /pinups/burlesque/dixie/dixie1.html (202 words)

	Desert Dispatch newspaper - Barstow, California (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dixie Evans, Curator of the Exotic World Burlesque Museum remembers, "They'd tease him about having another (beer), but he'd say, "I've had too many, I've got to get home before Dale." It is a habit of patrons to carve their initials on the bar and Roy Rogers' are still there.
		Today the bar retains a bit of the Wild West: from the makeshift nature of it's construction (power pole insulators decorate the entrance) to the fact that on Sundays a church meets in one room of the bar.
		Next time you are on your way to Victorville stop by the Exotic World Burlesque Museum and/or the Iron Hog.
	www.desertdispatch.com /2005/112782797665360.html (862 words)

	AlterNet: The Museum of Stripping Cowboy Vampires
		When I was there several years ago I didn’t get to talk to the curator, ex-dancer Dixie Lee Evans, as I’d hoped to because she was rushing to make a deposit at the bank before it closed.
		I know there’s a theme there if only I could figure out what it is. Since the museum is registered with the California State Historical Society tickets were tax deductible, so I’m sure the Orange County Republicans turned out en masse, especially those who saw the entertainment schedule and mistook it for an SPCA fundraiser.
		Exotic World would become quite the tourist destination if they would add a roller coaster called the Feather Boa Constrictor, offer karaoke strip teases, and feature games like Pop The Dancer’s Balloons.
	www.alternet.org /story/12942 (1135 words)

	Burlesque Dancer History Archives - Jennie Lee - Main Page
		Founder of the League of Exotic Dancers in 1954 and former veteran burlesque dancer.
		Became afflicted with breast cancer and moved to a Mojave, California farm in 1981 with her husband and started the "the Exotic World Burlesque Museum and and Striptease Hall of Fame" which still operates today (2005) under the guidance of Dixie Evens.
		EXOTIC WORLD is in dire need of repairs.
	www.streetswing.com /histburl/a2jennielee.htm (253 words)

	Exotic World Burlesque Museum
		Purchase Exotic World t-shirts and photos from Tempest Storm, Dixie Evans, Satan's Angel and more in the Gift Shop.
		However, for ongoing Exotic World updates (including up-to-the-minute news about the Pageant, please sign up for one of our mailing lists: Burlesque News (announcements only) or Miss Exotic World (announcements plus listmember discussion).
		Located halfway between the glamour of Los Angeles and glitter of Las Vegas (and just off historic Route 66), Exotic World is the only museum on the planet exclusively dedicated to the art, artifacts and stars of Bump and Grind's Golden Age.
	www.exoticworldusa.org (227 words)

	Fodors.com > Features > Sights > America's Most Entertaining Halls of Fame: Exotic World Burlesque Museum and ...
		Sexy photos, G-strings, costumes, fans, boas, and other show-stopping accoutrements of the "women of classic burlesque theater" make for an eye-popping tour.
		Her museum, a few miles off Interstate 15 south of Barstow, attempts nothing short of a history of burlesque, from the 19th century to the bawdy form's golden age in the mid-20th century.
		To qualify for the Burlesque Museum and Hall of Fame a woman must have performed in burlesque for at least 10 years.
	www.fodors.com /features/nfdisplay1.cfm?name=si/010330_si_halls_exotic (140 words)

	Feeling down? S.F. burlesque is over the top
		In fact, one of the nice things about burlesque is that, in a world in which the redemptive power of celebrity is conferred by fiat on a select few --
		Thus, San Francisco's Famous Burlesque Orchestra will be performing on the 20th in L.A.'s Palace Theatre at a benefit for the Exotic World Burlesque Museum, alongside such stars as Dita von Teese, Kitten DeVille and Miss Exotic World 2001, Sacramento's own Cherry Malone.
		Well, that's a whole other explanation: The Exotic World Burlesque Museum, in the desert off I-15 in Helendale, is run by the legendary Dixie Evans -- known, in the '50s, as the Marilyn Monroe of Burlesque.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/04/11/MN163169.DTL (636 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Museum is comprised of some 9 rooms displaying the personal and professional memorabilia of strippers, showgirls and burlesque stars past.
		Sally Rand's shoes and feather fans are among the costumes, show cards and newspaper clippings that,along with seemingly pedestrian items not yielding their import easily, adorn every available wall space and countertop.
		Instead, this is a sampling from a loose knit group of photographers who more-or less travel to the event and location annually.
	www.mericphoto.com /gallery/exoticworld.htm (125 words)

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