From Lousiana State University Yearbook 1975, page 25.
“One of the most favorite stories is the one of the day Stacie ” Stormy ” Laurence, a New Orleans stripper, came on campus (March 4, 1948). She arrived at noon and started her dance before the Huey P. Long Field House as thirty students looked on…
‘By the time of her second dance, a crowd of 1,000 students had gathered and trouble occurred. The students, enraged by her show, stormed the stripper throwing her into the lake, turned over her van and destroyed all the band equipment as the band members fled. Student Body President Gillis Long tried to quiet the crowd, but the mob prevailed.’
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Images by Edward Clark 2-22. Image 1 “Cover of Pellmell a humor magazine of Louisiana State University featuring a cartoon of strip tease dancer Stacie Stormy Laurence.”
Thank you to LIFE Archive
Enraged? By a stripper? Surely the photographer got out of there before the hate started.
Look at that crowd!! They look very particularly “enraged” as she’s about to take her top off. Haha!
I think she never took off her top, hence the enraged (men) crowd. Maybe she mulled over it for too long.
Is it an amazing coincidence that the ad for “The Wedding Suite at Nordstrom” to the right of the Pellmell cover at the top of this page shows the bride to be in the same pose as the stripper? Hmmmm…
Sure, I mention the remarkable coincidence and you change the “ad” to an unrelated item about YouTube…go ahead, be that way.
The man sitting with Stacie “Stormy” Laurence is my Grandfather! He owned the club, Stormy’s Casino Royale, on Bourbon and St. Louis Streets – New Orleans, LA – I remember my father telling me about this story…very cool!
somebody doesn’t realise that ads are targeted at YOU PERSONALLY depending on web history…I get Watchshop coz that’s what I look at a lot
Ads, what ads? I use ad blocker…
Probably a bunch of right-wing “decency” zealots.. “WE don’t APPROVE of this, therefore WE won’t let YOU have it”
If that happened today, everyone of those men would have a phone in the air…
I am not surprised that these young men turned violent. It was a repressed place and time.
I was in college at that time. Don’t believe the repression. We did everything they do today except, perhaps, the drugs and there was some of that. The current generation did not invent booze and sex.
so you are 90 years old?
Obviously this was a marketing ploy. You don’t actually see them smashing the truck and everyone was smiling before hand. Most likely it was to advertise for the club. Like John Geyer said, sex wasn’t invented in the 1960′s.
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