“If a girl wants to get started in the business,” Pappy went on, “she may call me or she may tell one of the club owners and he’ll tell her to contact me. I’ve got kind of an amateur show I do over at the Athens Strip on Sunday afternoon. I tell the girl to show up there and if she does all right, she can start dancing.”
What’s it take to make a good stripper?
“Oh, it’s like anything else. It takes a gimmick. Some girls are beautiful and that’s their gimmick. But you’ve got to have, you know, something to set you apart. I’ll tell you one thing: I don’t think a girl should take everything off. After you’ve seen it all, what mystery’s left? Why come back?”