The True Story of Bubbles Darlene Sheri Darlene and Virginia Lachimia Vintage Sleaze
"Bubbles Darlene"
was an exotic dancer, though she described herself once to Nashville
police as a "strip teaser." Bubbles had the real name of Virginia
Lachimia and was a busty platinum blond with considerable talents
originally from Minneapolis. She studied as a ballet dancer, but found
burlesque paid more. In 1955, while performing her act, someone broke
into her hotel room and swiped her entire suitcase of risque photographs
"including some nudes taken in Cuba" and she was forced to take out a
classified ad in the local newspaper offering $500 for their safe
return. She was out of luck… they were never found. Bubbles even
claimed once to have danced with a 22 piece orchestra in Cuba, and who
would doubt this woman?
She was also arrested in Cuba for walking
around Havana in a see-through raincoat, a stunt widely reported, including the two page spread in "Peep Show" magazine which called her the "Doll with the Most Dimples" in 1956. They also reported her measurements, so I'm going to guess dimples were less of her act than other parts of her anatomy.
Here is a picture of Dimples "clinging to some Cuban lace" from Peep Show. Can you imagine the stories a stripper in pre-Castro Cuba could share?
The book here in red, a bogus "art study"
was confiscated from a bookstore owner in 1957 and while he was charged
with other titles, the jury let him walk on the Bubbles book. (True)
IN response to
one of those tired "best dressed women" puff pieces, Damon Runyun, Jr.
once named her one of the "ten best undressed women of America" although
she kept on a "fifty dollar g-string" covered in rhinestones. Her
first professional name was Sheri Darlene, but it wasn't long before
Harold Minskly dubbed her Bubbles. At some gigs in Miami, a bubble
machine was put in front of the joint she was working to attract
business.
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