Detroit Strip Clubs: Farewell to the Pieman: Soupy Sales, 1926-2009
October 23, 2009 at 11:36 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsDespite persistent urban legends, Soupy never did blue material for the kids though his staff did play a prank that had a topless balloon artiste dancing to “The Stripper,” while the on-set monitor indicated that the career-ending nudity was going on the air. (It wasn’t.) He did make trouble for himself on New Year’s Day 1965, when, annoyed by having to work on a holiday, he impishly instructed kids to tiptoe into their parents’ bedroom, take out “green pieces of paper with pictures of guys with beards” and send them to his New York station. The punch line: “And you know what I’m gonna send you? A postcard from Puerto Rico.” For that he got suspended. He said that the kids were hipper than his bosses: many sent him Monopoly money. One adult enclosed a few dollars, and wrote: “Now go to Puerto Rico.”
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