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‘Carol Doda Topless at the Condor’ Review: The Cheeky Story of a North Beach Icon Who Broke Taboos

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Todd Gilchrist editor With the benefit of hindsight, it’s easy to identify moments that precipitated significant social or cultural changes.

But that doesn’t mean that the people involved in those moments knew, or were actively working to achieve them, as they were happening. “Carol Doda Topless at The Condor,” which charts the explosion of topless (and eventually all-nude) clubs across the U.S.

after the documentary’s namesake decided to go-go dance in a breast-exposing monokini in June 1964, occasionally makes the mistake of conflating intent with her decision’s revolutionary impact.

Even so, co-directors Marlo McKenzie and Jonathan Parker offer an absolute treasure trove of vintage film footage shot in, around and about San Francisco’s North Beach as they chronicle the parallel lines of her career and the cultural sea change that it precipitated.

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