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The Condor was - and is - America's very first legal strip club.

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The Monkees promoting Head on the West and East Coast in 1968: (photo 2) “Hatchet [The George Washington University paper] Reporter Diane Smith stays on top of the news, ready to pounce on the Monkees’ Peter Tork. Photo by Ickow” (The Hatchet, 1968); The Monkees and Carol Doda at Bardelli's Restaurant, November 1968.

“[T]he Hatchet was invited to a promotion party for their new movie, ‘Head,’ at the Madison Hotel in downtown Washington. […] Finally they arrived. Gasp. Sigh. [Micky] couldn’t make it. Peter Tork, with a heavy beard, white leather pants, a sash, beads, and psychedelic shirt, sauntered in and shouted, ‘OK, everybody up and at ‘em!’ He seemed to have been drinking, but it didn’t smell like it. Columbia executives and photographers started arranging the people, posing the Miss Heads and Monkees for pictures. Everybody was flustered. […] While Peter was flipping popcorn into his mouth and draping his arms around the girls, Mike Nesmith and Davy Jones said nothing, smiling occasionally. Davy, all 94 pounds of him, could have passed for a 13 year old. Then we started talking in earnest to the boys. Someone asked Mike about his philosophy of life. Another asked Davy if he liked Schwinns or English racers better. Meanwhile a WAMU reporter with a tape recorder corner Peter. ‘Peter, would you said Whenever I’m in Washington, I listen to WAMU radio.’ ‘But I don’t,’ Peter answered. ‘That doesn’t matter, just say it.’ Then they started asking him about the movie, ‘Head.’ ‘It could really be a smash or it could really go bad-phoooo-blup!’ he explained. Then he takes about one of the Monkees records. ‘Well we have two versions of that song. One is four minutes long and the other is about one and a half or two minutes. The shorter one is supposed to be a lot better.’ Then about college. ‘I’m trying to unlearn everything I know. Knowledge clutters up the mind and makes it unfit for meditation.’ Then Peter asked the ‘Head Girls’ why they dressed up so prissy rather than hip. They explained that Randy Swartz told them to. He asked who Randy was and everybody pointed to him. ‘Oh, well, no wonder,’ Peter said. Later as Peter was discussing a rock group he had seen in New York, Cat Mother and the Night Newsboys, Randy came up to him and whispered in his ear. Peter scowled at him and said, ‘I wanna meet you outside later — and bring your brass knuckles.’ Randy smiled weakly. Meanwhile, Miss Head of Maryland, obviously considering herself a new Marilyn Monroe, arrived and one of the photographers asked her to sit on Peter’s lap. She complied, fluttered her false eyelashes, and as everyone held back his vomit, flashbulbs popped. Then the photographer posed Peter with the three Miss Heads. Miss Maryland Head, doing her best to remain inconspicuous, innocently fingered Peter’s beads. Nobody got a picture. ‘Could you do that again, honey?’ the photographer asked. She again complied. Meanwhile, Randy was cornering each of the Miss Heads individually and was saying, very discreetly, something like this: ‘Say, honey, we’re having a screening and a cocktail party afterwards with the boys. Sounds pretty good, huh, would you like to go? The boys would really appreciate it.’ Then Randy came over to Peter and said ‘We’re gonna wrap it up in 15 minutes.’ ‘We are, huh,’ Peter said. Randy smiled weakly again. Just before the Hatchet contingent left, Peter, seeming to speak for all but Miss Head from Maryland, said, ‘This is the most insane thing I’ve ever been to. It’s hideous and worse.’ Randy Swartz, mastermind of this promotion scheme, tried to ignore the comment. One of his boys was making trouble.” - ‘This is the Most Insane Thing…,’ by Brian Cabell, The Hatchet, November 18, 1968

“We wanted to do something special. Something a little extraordinary. Something not quite normal. We really didn’t want to make another episode of the television show. I saw the movie of McHale’s Navy, and it was absurd to watch an hour-and-a-half version of a half-hour episode. Basically, you didn’t get a sense that there was anything else going into it, they just wrote a longer script. The four of us, Bert Schneider, Bob [Rafelson], and Jack Nicholson all went to Ojai and talked about what we did and didn’t want. We sort of found a common ground. What exactly that was, we wound up leaving to Bob and Jack — the exact script of the movie was basically their idea. […] Basically, the movie Head is not the story of The Monkees’ release, it is Rafelson’s idea of who The Monkees are. Nobody comes off too good in this movie. If you look carefully, Davy gets called a Manchester midget greenie, Micky is a blithering space case, I am some Indian wise man’s mouthpiece who doesn’t know what he’s doing, and Mike is a con man. That’s because Rafelson is a cynic — he has a low view of life, and he doesn’t mind spewing it in your face. He thinks life sucks, and if you don’t think it sucks, then you’re a fool. The movie is not pure bad by any stretch. But finally, the point of it is pretty grim. The way Head ends is, if we’re not trapped into a black box, we’re trapped in a mobile pool of water.” - Peter Tork, Head 1994 CD liner notes