Rainton Hastie, owner of the Pink Pussycat strip club in Karangahape Road, Auckland, can be heard in this 1973 radio programme. The segment begins with Hastie talking to a potential employee, and then outlining the steps to full nudity on stage.
Transcript
How are you love, alright? You'd like a job eh?
Yeah.
You've come down for a job have you?
Yeah
Yeah, alright. When do you think you'd like to start? You could start tonight, we'd love you to start tonight if you could?
Um yeah, only until the Artarama
You're doing Artarama, have you seen what the girls do on stage?
No, I haven't yet.
Yeah, you know, you have to take your clothes all your clothes right off don't you? It's total nudity now. You know, that don't you?
Yeah
Alright, well if you'd like to have a go, Bunny, would you like to take this girl? Put her on stage, give her six poses for Artarama love alright? Show her six poses and that'll get her used to the stage and get her used to the people. Alright love? Well you take her up there, alright love you'll b ok. Right o Bunny.
Pink Pussycat Club. Perfect female bodies, mouth watering beauty, stark naked nudes. So reads an advertisement for one of Karangahape Road's strip shows run by Rainton Hastie.
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