Vicki Rene’s Tribute To The
Showgirls Of Yesterday

These are the ladies that have done all the work, laid the ground rules down. These are the ones that were there before us, the ones I will not let be forgotten!

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 Eva Tangway

She worked at the famous Door Club in Indiana in 1974

 Vonni

Vonni was born in Manchester ,England and moved to Australia as a child with her family. She first became a show girl in the early 70s and had gender reassignment in feb 1979. She then travelled all over the world working as a striptease artist working throughout Europe, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, New Zealand, New Mia and Australia. Now living in Adelaide South Australia she retired from striptease in 1997 and now runs Australias leading strip club. She still performs on a regular basis but is now doing "LIVE" cabaret, singing and dancing and still tours Australia yearly. She hopes to one day travel back to all the wonderful countries she worked in only this time just be a tourist.
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 Cornell Crawford

The MRS. Cornell Crawford: Cornell Crawford Started Performing out of necessity, one of her dear friends was a bartender at the local gay bar and one night thugs opend the bar and shot in to the bar, hitting this bartender friend, a few weeks later some folks at the bar decided to throw a benefit drag show to help pay for some of the medical bills. They asked my dad to perform the song "Cornell Crawford" by KT Auslin which he was known for performing as a boy out of drag, he said ok but what do I call myself. They said Cornell Crawford, his responce was that's a boy's name, and they said ok then, be the Mrs. Cornell Crawford. He went on to have a successful career for three years making a living on performing 3 nights a week in the Virginia Beach area. He now comes out occasionally to help me raise money for a good cause.

 Janice Covington

She is 61 years old at this time. She started out in San Francisco at the age of 22, Moved to Chicago with Sonnie Ray and Carman Del Rio. She won her first pageant as Miss Chicago Nite Life in 1969, also Miss Chicago 1969. She broke away from performing shortly after.
She came back a few years ago and is now performing in North and South Carolina, places like, Club Fusions in Cola SC. Warehouse 250 Florence SC. Warehouse 29 Greensboro NC. Ohenry's in Asheville NC.. She is also the Chair person for www.transcarolina.org the largest transgender organization in the South East. Also you can Google her as Janice Covington Allison, Janice Covington and Janice Covington of TransCarolina, You will find that she is now a Drag Queen / Transgender activist.
Updated Dec 09, 2009 A few days ago, Janice and a few friends were sitting around the other day and discovered that at 62 years old she is the oldest reining Crown holder in the nation. She is now Miss Palmetto State South Carolina 2009/2010. Also even though she has slowed down, she is still performing in North Carolina and South Carolina. This year she has been in 4 pageants with good results and still planning on more.

 Sonie Rea

 Vicky Lane

She has been in this profession for over 40 years. She has worked on the upper east Coast and mostly since 1972 in Montreal and the province of Quebec. She also worked in Wildwood New Jersey at the Fun Spot. She has also worked for 14 yrs at the Drag hotspot in Montreal Canada, Cafe Cleopatra and the rest of the time was touring. She started in New York City with Ty Bennett ( 82 Club) and Jene Chandler (Jewel Box Revue). She went to have her own Revues and Cabaret Shows. She has done French Cabaret and Theatre and is now directing.
Please check out her site http://www.canadiandragqueens.com
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 Bubbles

 Billy Tipton

Billy was a great pianist and jazz player in the 20’s through the 50’s many people did not know that Billy was born a female.

 Tiffany Jones

 Jimmy Slater

Jimmy was born in 1898 and performed well into the 1960’s. He started right after World War I in southern England and later moved off to Northern England where he was a very big success. He later in life opened a very successful costume business in the UK.

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