Little did I know that after the honeymoon was over and Rose moved out how she would come back and literally screw me over. Maybe someday I’ll write about what she did to mess me up. I’ll just say for now that it ended up being the worst time of my life.
Rose was my first tongue kiss at the Harmony. Also was my first BJ up there too. One afternoon I was in the lobby/lounge playing the baseball video game and Rose came out after she finished her show to hang with me and Seymour. All of a sudden she reaches around my waist and unbuckles my belt and pulled it off. She starts to head back into the theatre and she coyly tells me that if I want my belt back I need to come and get it. She walked to the back to the first room to the left of the stage. I followed her and asked for my belt back. I ended up with 5 minutes of Rose dropping to her knees and pulling my jeans down just like in the movies. Two days later she moved in with me and stayed for about 6 months. For me back in ‘85 the Harmony was the best place to be.
I used to see Donna Summore turning tricks on 45th (i think it was) Street standing outside one of those smackdown hotels. Anyone remember Treasure Chest? She used to work incall at a place on 34th st & 3rd Ave. Lots of ladies used to turn tricks up at the Melody. Some were discreet about it while others weren’t. One of my friends had seen Alexandra over at the Markwell on 49th St. They left the Melody separately. Afterwards when he came back up to the theatre and he told me it was the best he ever had. Naturally I had to experience Alexandra too. She was dammed good. Eventually we exchanged phone numbers and she would come over to my apartment in Queens and stay the entire night. In the morning she would drive me to work in Manhattan. All this was made possible by the Melody. What a great place it was!
I can safely say this: If I had never knew the pleasures of the Melody, I would no doubt be a millionaire today!
I remember picking Joey Karson at Lucky Lady. LL used to have some fine ladies working there. I remember one Asian girl from up there. She didn’t seem to work very often, but when she was I always used to take her. A couple of other Melody girls I remember are Diana Onassis and an older spanish woman named Melai Melai.
That’s awful to hear about Shawn. But honestly I half expected it. She was a big druggie. I remember her falling asleep during lap dances. IIRC, Shawn came from a well to do jewish family and that her dad was a doctor. Purely conjecture here but possibly her family found out about her porno career and disowned her. I guess she could never get herself clean. I wonder if she knows anything about Sharon Mitchell and the program she runs in L.A.? Tony I’m surprized that you only recently found out Holly and her daughter. That was all over the theatre at the time. I think she stopped working for a time but came back after the publicity died down. It wouldn’t have looked good if the press found out where she worked. I don’t remember Lisa Wilson at all. The only Lisa I remember was Lisa Be. MelHarFol, you have to tell us more about Lisa Wilson. Magic I do remember well. She said that she was from Baltimore but was part Hawaiian. She was hot as hell with one fine ass. I remember seeing her get dropped off out side the theatre by a car full of guys. I always thought that one of them was her boyfriend/pimp.
I hope Star turned her life around too, although most of the time she was high.
Who was the homeless girl living in Central Park? Could it have been Shawn? Dennis told me before he passed away that he saw Shawn somewhere in Manhattan and that she looked homeless. He gave he a few bucks because he felt sorry for her. Once I caught her smoking pot in the back and she followed me to the office begging me not to tell Bob, Jerry or Dominique. I had no intention of ratting her out. She offered to perform a Billy Joel on me and of course as a hot blooded young guy in my 20’s there was no way I could say no to a Billy Joel! It turned out to be the best Billy Joel I ever had! When we walked out of the office Rose who was living with me at the time saw us leaving the office and she knew that I had just experienced a Billy Joel and stormed to the back. She was upset with me. But I have always been a big Frank Sinatra fan and wished that I could’ve experienced that with Shawn. Yup, the Melody was the place to be.
I’ve had my share of celebrity moments. Back in the early ‘80s I knew one of the owners of Oren & Aretsky’s on the upper east side. The place was a celebrity hangout. I met many Yankees, Mets & Rangers players there. My biggest moment was coming back to NYC from Montreal on Eastern where I had seen the Rangers play the Canadiens the night before. I got to the gate early and then the entire Rangers team showed up. But the best part was deplaning at LGA. Carol Alt was waiting at the gate for her hubby Ron Greshner. Celebrites used to come up to the Melody from time to time. I used to see Paul Schaffer from Letterman almost every Saturday night. One afternoon 2 WWF wrestlers (Nikolai Volkoff & Renee Goulet came up for Mardi Gras. They went back in the audio room and Volkoff got on the mike and asked the audience to stand and remove their hats for the Russian national anthem! You had to be there. Dennis who was a huge wrestling fan had his camera out taking pictures. Does anyone remember the transexual Joy Silkie? She must have been about 60 years old then. Another girl I remembered was Silky Summers. She was very sweet but didn’t work very often. Tamika and Asia don’t ring any bells for me but I remember a really cute Asian girl who IIRC was named Kim or Kimmy. Tony your description of Star sounds right to me. She used to be high most of the time.
melharfol, you could be my twin! I to experienced what you just talked about above. The first Melody girl I was with was Alexandra. She was something else, totally hot. There were times that she would call me and come over and spend the night. Without the Melody none of these adventures would’ve happened. So you are right, the Melody and Times Square were awesome in the old days. Absolutely the place to be!
Some more names that I remember: Destiny Duvall, Brandy Lawrence, Crystal Cox, Lauren, Natasha, Inga, Rose. There were 2 Natashas. One was a light skined black girl and the other was a petite blond.
Rose moved in with me in ‘85 and we were together for 5 months. I really liked her and was trying to get her out of the business but she was only 19 and thought she could make $1000 by working as an escort or in an apartment. I used to go to a place on 34th & 3rd Ave. They had business cards that said Robert Stein, entertainment consultant. I went up there one afternoon with Eddie and Rose opened the door and I was shocked to see her there. I just turned away and we went back to the Harmony, which was the place to be.
Please excuse me for rambling on here. I had to take a pain pill (morphine) in the middle of the night and I feel so high right now!
A couple of more Melody girls were Sitiva and Pansy. Pansy would stick her tongue in you ear and drive you nuts!
One night Jaguar asked me if I wanted to spend the night at her house. Of course I did! We cabbed it to Astoria after we dropped Seymour of on 98th St. Her son, Trevor who was about 5 at the time was with a baby sitter when we got there. Of course this was the night that the Mets decide to play a marathon extra inning game and trevor wouldn’t go to his room and go to sleep. So although I slept in the same bed with Jaguar that was it, nothing carnal at all. Grrr.
I just remembered another Melody girl, Tina Petite. Another was Jackie who was real close to Manny Rosen. After she died from a drug overdose Manny left his entire estate to her kid. Now thats all for tonight cause I have work to do. Take care fellas. Later.
I also remember Lucky Lady, Her Place, Sophisticated Lady and the Passion International Room and of course the Luxor Baths where $10.40 would get you anything! That was one wild and crazy place. The lounge was downstairs and after you paid the manager would give you a ticket and you’d give it to the girl. Then she’d take you up in the elevator to the 6th floor where the rooms were. One weekends there were always dozens of guys there all waiting to get laid. I digress now to Lucky Lady, they had the best looking girls there. I remember one named Kelly who was a slim brunette. Had lots of fun with her.
Some of the girls I remember aside from those already posted above are: Annie Sprinkle, Little Oral Annie, Veronica Hart, Hillary Summers, Nelly Gold, Elkie Winter, Taurus Rising, Bonnie Tass, Shannon Ireland, Barbarella, China White, Diana Lee, Carol, Carol K., Bianca B., Tina, Jeannie, Cary, Magic, Lily, Francesca, Elaina, Michelle, Joy Silkie, Vanessa, Meecha, Star, Lissette Gwynn, Danae Darma, Kitty Hawk, Danielle, Monique, Shawn, Kiki, Rose, Teri swan, Nikki Knight, desiree du Soir, Candy staton, Liz Scott, Donna S'more, Red Snapper, Honey Midnight, Inga, Candy Starr, Leah, Jaguar, Champagne aka Bijou, Roxy, Jill Barry, Jessica, Justine, Victoria, Melinda, Sydney Mclaine, Dutch Maria, Gina Harlow, Lady Jane, Ginger, Linta Young, Christina Young, Mimi Young, Gypsy. There are so many more that I can’t remember names right now. Didn’t Lissette Gwynn take a chinese customer from the theatre and kill him with her boyfriends help and chop him into pieces put them in plastic trash bags and then put them in a shopping cart with blood dripping all over the street?
Some more names just hit me…Angela, Mai Lin, Jennifer Valentine,Alexandra, Jocelyn. Whew. But the nicest, classiest lady of them all was the beautiful Annette Heinz. I still have one of her movies somewhere. I would give anything to spend some time with Annette, so if you read this Annette…….
I had Tales of Times Square but after the wife & I split up it disappeared. Looks like I need to buy another copy. About 5 years ago on a trip to NYC I went to the Colony record store and bought Mike Cassone’s cd that had Bob Anthony singing Angela on it. The manager said that it was the last one they had so of course after I got back home it was a defective cd so I was screwed.
1973! The Melody had a good run before it was busted and was reincarnated as the Harmony. Just think that if B.A. was thinking with his big head instead of the little head just maybe he never would’ve made Dominique a partner in the theatre. Jerry would have kept it as is until they had to move. Jerry was into real estate and owned some apartment buildings in upper Manhattan. What they should have done was move to a more industrial area then maybe they could have gone under the radar. When Guiliani became mayor and decided that we all should all be subservient to his morals and started his crusade against adult entertainment it surprised me that he wasn’t shot by an angry Harmony customer! NYC just isn’t the same as it was in the good old days. I remember Bob always saying that Lindsay was the greatest mayor because he left places like the Melody alone.
Vanessa was a tall slim French girl w/blonde hair. Her best friends were Teri Swan, Sydney Mclaine, Nikki Knight and Danielle. She married my friend Dennis so she could get a green card. She used to come up from Bernards late in the evening just to see Roger! Teri & Sydney have passed away, both from cancer. Vanessa still keeps in touch with Danielle & Nikki Knight. I wish there was a way we could reach out to former Melody/Harmony girls and guys and have a reunion some place. Any ideas?
Tiffany Clark was a sweetheart. There was a bunch of guys who used to close the place down on weekends that really dug her. I remember the faces but the only name I remember is Roger. A tall thin blond guy. I think Roger liked Vanessa too. Good guys that group was. I used to see Tiffany & Fred on 86th street all the time. Usually in Grand Union late in the evening where I would occasionally stop after work and pick up a few groceries before heading home. Does anyone know what she’s up to these days?
I remember a dancer named Toni who was a favorite of George the audio guy. She would spend a lot of time in the lounge talking with the guys. Anyone remember a blond named Flame? She was a friend of Jocelyn & Alexandra. Dennis told me that after her Melody career ended she became a school teacher. She also stole Dominique’s husband from her and had a kid with him. Needless to say there was alot of bad blood between those two. Lots of girls used the theatre as a place to turn tricks. One of those girls was Gypsy. One day Jerry decided to do a sting operation on her. He arranged to have Seymour proposition her during a lap dance so he could fire her when she accepted his offer. I managed to get Rose to go and mention this to Gypsy so she wouldn’t lose her job. What happened was funny. Gypsy started screaming at Seymour and runs out to the box office to tell Jerry that she was propositioned by Seymour demanding that he get thrown out of the theatre. I think Tommy and I only paid admission a couple of times before Bob started letting us in for free. He knew that if there was ever any trouble we would help out. All in all the Melody was a great place. Many many memories. Someone should make a movie about it!
I see Vanessa every now and then when I visit NYC. She was married to Dennis (RIP) for about 5 years so she could get a green card. She is doing very well and still looks good. She has a great job and really straightened her life out. The closest thing in NY to the Harmony was Tina’s place on 6th Ave which is long gone. There was another club that Dennis told me about that was owned by Mason reese the former child actor where some of the Harmony girls worked at. Sadly that place is closed. Dennis and I used to go to Montreal alot because the strip club scene up there rocks. I still try to get up there once every year and take in a Canadiens game too. The best club is the Cafe Cleopatra. It is the closest thing to the Melody that I have ever seen. The girls do lap dances for $10 a song and you get pretty ngood mileage. I have been propositioned there all the time. But back to the Melody. That place was the best! So many colorful characters there, both customers and girls. Tommy and I used to share on of Seymours tickets to the Ranger games at the Garden. So many memories. I think that I could write a book about the place. From 84 til 86 I was up there more than I was at my own house! I gotta go for now but I’ll be back on later to post more stuff.
Subway John, now there was a character. He was in love with Roxy and became enraged when she started seeing Tom. Tom had a way with the ladies and they all seemed to like him. He and Roxy saw each other for many years and still keep in touch. Sadly he told me last year that she is suffering from lung cancer.
There was another customer named John who worked with Seymour as a messenger downtown. He was head over heels for Jeannie. Lots of guys loved Jeannie and she was also one of Eddie’s favorite girls. She had a perfect ass. She would pretend to get upset whenever Eddie would whip it out! Jeannie and her husband Carlos also did a live sex show at one of the theatres on 7th Ave. Another girl who worked the shows with her b/f was Jillian Morehead and I always used to tease her that if her boyfriend couldn’t make it to the show then I would be happy to fill in for him. She always used to laugh but one Friday afternoon she came up to the Harmony looking for me. She needed me to fill in and all the guys were egging me on. I had to go and do the show with her or I’d loose face. A couple of the guys even came over and bought tickets to the show! I was da man that day!! Without the Melody/Harmony that afternoon never would have happened. This is conclusive proof that the Melody was the place to be!
Glad to hear that Ray is still around. Most of the old timers have moved on to the Melody in the sky. Everyone always liked Ray. He is one heck of a good guy. Tell him that Alex says hello next time you see him for me.
I have a Veri Knotty story for you. This happened at the McDonald’s on Canal Street next door to Diamond Lil’s. My friend Tom was working a rare closing shift at McD’s and I had nothing better to do so I went to Diamond Lils where I was waiting for Tom to close the restaurant and meet me next door. Veri Knotty was working there that night and recognized me from the Melody so she came over to say hi. One thing led to another and I ended up sneaking her into McD’s basement stockroom and let the fun began! A good time was had by all. This one night where Diamond Lil’s was the place to be.
Nat was a math professor at Brooklyn College. I remember Bob well. He was a good friend of my buddy Dennis, who also took lots of photos of the girls as well as the wrestlers at the hotel ( was it a Ramada or a Days Inn) on 8th Ave & 48th St. The only Georges that I remember from the theatre were George the bouncer, George the audio man and a Japanese customer named George who was at the theatre every weekend. Dennis had thousands of photos of the Melody/Harmony girls in his house. When he passed away his cousin Jane who was his only survivor rented a driveway dumpster and threw everything out. After I got married my wife threw out all my pics from the theatre. I still haven’t forgiven her for that. I remember one week when Crystal Blue had worked the burlesk shows during the week. As she was leaving the Melody on a Sunday night she was dragging her suitcase through the lobby and she put it down to give Izzy a peck on the cheek and her luggage tag was staring me in the face with her name and address. I never told a sole about it until just now. She and Jerry had a semi serious thing going on so I knew she was off limits.
I remember that week in September of 1979 well. I had my pic taken with Leslie Bovee as well. I don’t remember the particular show that you described but I can just imagine how hot it was at the Melody that day. J.J. was a great guy. We used to close the theatre down on Fri & Sat nights. I wonder what happened to him? Do you remember Elke Winter? She was nice. One of the best looking girls at the Melody was Linta Young, a Portugese girl from Newark. The problem with her was that she was a bitch. She was married at the time to an asian guy, who we all thought was a lucky sob. One day a few of us went up to one of the incall apartments on 48th St just west of 8th Ave and who was up there waiting to be serviced….Linta’s husband. When we asked him why the hell he had to go up to a place like that he told us that she doesn’t give him any at home! Poor guy. Like you say, the Melody was the place to be!
When the Melody was reincarnated as the Harmony Bob and Jerry were the owners. I’m sure that there were silent partners as well. I remember Susaye London well. She really enjoyed her time at the Mel/Har. Danielle was something else, totally hot! I have seen recent pics of her and even though she is in her 50’s she is still just as hot as she was 25-30 years ago. She is another rare story of a Melody girl who went on to lead a successful life with a great legit job. The wall dances were the best. One time one of the girls whose name I don’t remember, but she was Roxy’s cousin was giving me a wall dance and she unzipped my pants and pulled out my junk and discreetly slid it inside for a few seconds. Then she told me that if I wanted more we could go to the Markwell. All I remember about the rest of that night was that I didn’t end up at the Markwell with her. Yup the Melody was the place to be. I wish it was still around!
Speaking of fetishes, I remember Frenchy who had the girls pee on him. You didn’t want to be in proximity to Frenchy thats for sure! I remember Andy (son of Louie the porter) when he turned 18 and first started hanging out at the Harmony. The girls loved him. I know he was banging Jackie Blaine and Cary with no cash involved. I heard through the grapevine about 10 years ago that Cary died of aids. She turned lots of tricks out of the Mel/Harm and supposedly slept with drug dealers so she could get coke from them. Eddie used to go for the younger looking girls such as Jeannie and Bianka B. We used to see the odd celebrity up there. Lots of WWF wrestlers and a band leader from a very long and still running “late night” tv show. Yes, the Melody was the place to be!
My friend Tom took me up to the Melody in 1978 for the first time. It was amazing, my jaw just dropped! I went for the bacala right away with Vanessa. I also enjoyed the action along the walls. It was a sad day when the NYFD put a stop to it. Jean Dalton was freakin' hot! I remember that she shared an apartment with desiree du Soir in the west village off of 6th Ave around 13th St. I wonder what she’s up to these days or even if she is still alive. Lots of the dancers lead very fast lives and I imagine that not all are still with us. I know that Teri Swan & Sydney McClain have passed away from cancer and Bianka B met a violent death up in RI, I think. I did end up seeing one of the dancers (Rose) a nice Jewish girl from Bayside in ‘85. She moved into my apartment and we lived together for about 6 months. We went up to Toronto one weekend and we were in a video arcade on Yonge Street and some guy came up to me and asked how much to date my girlfriend! I didn’t bite as the thought of under cover vice cop ran through my mind.
Little did I know that after the honeymoon was over and Rose moved out how she would come back and literally screw me over. Maybe someday I’ll write about what she did to mess me up. I’ll just say for now that it ended up being the worst time of my life.
Rose was my first tongue kiss at the Harmony. Also was my first BJ up there too. One afternoon I was in the lobby/lounge playing the baseball video game and Rose came out after she finished her show to hang with me and Seymour. All of a sudden she reaches around my waist and unbuckles my belt and pulled it off. She starts to head back into the theatre and she coyly tells me that if I want my belt back I need to come and get it. She walked to the back to the first room to the left of the stage. I followed her and asked for my belt back. I ended up with 5 minutes of Rose dropping to her knees and pulling my jeans down just like in the movies. Two days later she moved in with me and stayed for about 6 months. For me back in ‘85 the Harmony was the best place to be.
I used to see Donna Summore turning tricks on 45th (i think it was) Street standing outside one of those smackdown hotels. Anyone remember Treasure Chest? She used to work incall at a place on 34th st & 3rd Ave. Lots of ladies used to turn tricks up at the Melody. Some were discreet about it while others weren’t. One of my friends had seen Alexandra over at the Markwell on 49th St. They left the Melody separately. Afterwards when he came back up to the theatre and he told me it was the best he ever had. Naturally I had to experience Alexandra too. She was dammed good. Eventually we exchanged phone numbers and she would come over to my apartment in Queens and stay the entire night. In the morning she would drive me to work in Manhattan. All this was made possible by the Melody. What a great place it was!
I can safely say this: If I had never knew the pleasures of the Melody, I would no doubt be a millionaire today!
I remember picking Joey Karson at Lucky Lady. LL used to have some fine ladies working there. I remember one Asian girl from up there. She didn’t seem to work very often, but when she was I always used to take her. A couple of other Melody girls I remember are Diana Onassis and an older spanish woman named Melai Melai.
That’s awful to hear about Shawn. But honestly I half expected it. She was a big druggie. I remember her falling asleep during lap dances. IIRC, Shawn came from a well to do jewish family and that her dad was a doctor. Purely conjecture here but possibly her family found out about her porno career and disowned her. I guess she could never get herself clean. I wonder if she knows anything about Sharon Mitchell and the program she runs in L.A.? Tony I’m surprized that you only recently found out Holly and her daughter. That was all over the theatre at the time. I think she stopped working for a time but came back after the publicity died down. It wouldn’t have looked good if the press found out where she worked. I don’t remember Lisa Wilson at all. The only Lisa I remember was Lisa Be. MelHarFol, you have to tell us more about Lisa Wilson. Magic I do remember well. She said that she was from Baltimore but was part Hawaiian. She was hot as hell with one fine ass. I remember seeing her get dropped off out side the theatre by a car full of guys. I always thought that one of them was her boyfriend/pimp.
I hope Star turned her life around too, although most of the time she was high.
Who was the homeless girl living in Central Park? Could it have been Shawn? Dennis told me before he passed away that he saw Shawn somewhere in Manhattan and that she looked homeless. He gave he a few bucks because he felt sorry for her. Once I caught her smoking pot in the back and she followed me to the office begging me not to tell Bob, Jerry or Dominique. I had no intention of ratting her out. She offered to perform a Billy Joel on me and of course as a hot blooded young guy in my 20’s there was no way I could say no to a Billy Joel! It turned out to be the best Billy Joel I ever had! When we walked out of the office Rose who was living with me at the time saw us leaving the office and she knew that I had just experienced a Billy Joel and stormed to the back. She was upset with me. But I have always been a big Frank Sinatra fan and wished that I could’ve experienced that with Shawn. Yup, the Melody was the place to be.
I’ve had my share of celebrity moments. Back in the early ‘80s I knew one of the owners of Oren & Aretsky’s on the upper east side. The place was a celebrity hangout. I met many Yankees, Mets & Rangers players there. My biggest moment was coming back to NYC from Montreal on Eastern where I had seen the Rangers play the Canadiens the night before. I got to the gate early and then the entire Rangers team showed up. But the best part was deplaning at LGA. Carol Alt was waiting at the gate for her hubby Ron Greshner. Celebrites used to come up to the Melody from time to time. I used to see Paul Schaffer from Letterman almost every Saturday night. One afternoon 2 WWF wrestlers (Nikolai Volkoff & Renee Goulet came up for Mardi Gras. They went back in the audio room and Volkoff got on the mike and asked the audience to stand and remove their hats for the Russian national anthem! You had to be there. Dennis who was a huge wrestling fan had his camera out taking pictures. Does anyone remember the transexual Joy Silkie? She must have been about 60 years old then. Another girl I remembered was Silky Summers. She was very sweet but didn’t work very often. Tamika and Asia don’t ring any bells for me but I remember a really cute Asian girl who IIRC was named Kim or Kimmy. Tony your description of Star sounds right to me. She used to be high most of the time.
melharfol, you could be my twin! I to experienced what you just talked about above. The first Melody girl I was with was Alexandra. She was something else, totally hot. There were times that she would call me and come over and spend the night. Without the Melody none of these adventures would’ve happened. So you are right, the Melody and Times Square were awesome in the old days. Absolutely the place to be!
Another Melody girl was Venus Berlin. I never liked her as she was nasty to the guys.
Some more names that I remember: Destiny Duvall, Brandy Lawrence, Crystal Cox, Lauren, Natasha, Inga, Rose. There were 2 Natashas. One was a light skined black girl and the other was a petite blond.
Rose moved in with me in ‘85 and we were together for 5 months. I really liked her and was trying to get her out of the business but she was only 19 and thought she could make $1000 by working as an escort or in an apartment. I used to go to a place on 34th & 3rd Ave. They had business cards that said Robert Stein, entertainment consultant. I went up there one afternoon with Eddie and Rose opened the door and I was shocked to see her there. I just turned away and we went back to the Harmony, which was the place to be.
Please excuse me for rambling on here. I had to take a pain pill (morphine) in the middle of the night and I feel so high right now!
Later guys!
A couple of more Melody girls were Sitiva and Pansy. Pansy would stick her tongue in you ear and drive you nuts!
One night Jaguar asked me if I wanted to spend the night at her house. Of course I did! We cabbed it to Astoria after we dropped Seymour of on 98th St. Her son, Trevor who was about 5 at the time was with a baby sitter when we got there. Of course this was the night that the Mets decide to play a marathon extra inning game and trevor wouldn’t go to his room and go to sleep. So although I slept in the same bed with Jaguar that was it, nothing carnal at all. Grrr.
I just remembered another Melody girl, Tina Petite. Another was Jackie who was real close to Manny Rosen. After she died from a drug overdose Manny left his entire estate to her kid. Now thats all for tonight cause I have work to do. Take care fellas. Later.
I also remember Lucky Lady, Her Place, Sophisticated Lady and the Passion International Room and of course the Luxor Baths where $10.40 would get you anything! That was one wild and crazy place. The lounge was downstairs and after you paid the manager would give you a ticket and you’d give it to the girl. Then she’d take you up in the elevator to the 6th floor where the rooms were. One weekends there were always dozens of guys there all waiting to get laid. I digress now to Lucky Lady, they had the best looking girls there. I remember one named Kelly who was a slim brunette. Had lots of fun with her.
Some of the girls I remember aside from those already posted above are: Annie Sprinkle, Little Oral Annie, Veronica Hart, Hillary Summers, Nelly Gold, Elkie Winter, Taurus Rising, Bonnie Tass, Shannon Ireland, Barbarella, China White, Diana Lee, Carol, Carol K., Bianca B., Tina, Jeannie, Cary, Magic, Lily, Francesca, Elaina, Michelle, Joy Silkie, Vanessa, Meecha, Star, Lissette Gwynn, Danae Darma, Kitty Hawk, Danielle, Monique, Shawn, Kiki, Rose, Teri swan, Nikki Knight, desiree du Soir, Candy staton, Liz Scott, Donna S'more, Red Snapper, Honey Midnight, Inga, Candy Starr, Leah, Jaguar, Champagne aka Bijou, Roxy, Jill Barry, Jessica, Justine, Victoria, Melinda, Sydney Mclaine, Dutch Maria, Gina Harlow, Lady Jane, Ginger, Linta Young, Christina Young, Mimi Young, Gypsy. There are so many more that I can’t remember names right now. Didn’t Lissette Gwynn take a chinese customer from the theatre and kill him with her boyfriends help and chop him into pieces put them in plastic trash bags and then put them in a shopping cart with blood dripping all over the street?
Some more names just hit me…Angela, Mai Lin, Jennifer Valentine,Alexandra, Jocelyn. Whew. But the nicest, classiest lady of them all was the beautiful Annette Heinz. I still have one of her movies somewhere. I would give anything to spend some time with Annette, so if you read this Annette…….
I had Tales of Times Square but after the wife & I split up it disappeared. Looks like I need to buy another copy. About 5 years ago on a trip to NYC I went to the Colony record store and bought Mike Cassone’s cd that had Bob Anthony singing Angela on it. The manager said that it was the last one they had so of course after I got back home it was a defective cd so I was screwed.
1973! The Melody had a good run before it was busted and was reincarnated as the Harmony. Just think that if B.A. was thinking with his big head instead of the little head just maybe he never would’ve made Dominique a partner in the theatre. Jerry would have kept it as is until they had to move. Jerry was into real estate and owned some apartment buildings in upper Manhattan. What they should have done was move to a more industrial area then maybe they could have gone under the radar. When Guiliani became mayor and decided that we all should all be subservient to his morals and started his crusade against adult entertainment it surprised me that he wasn’t shot by an angry Harmony customer! NYC just isn’t the same as it was in the good old days. I remember Bob always saying that Lindsay was the greatest mayor because he left places like the Melody alone.
Vanessa was a tall slim French girl w/blonde hair. Her best friends were Teri Swan, Sydney Mclaine, Nikki Knight and Danielle. She married my friend Dennis so she could get a green card. She used to come up from Bernards late in the evening just to see Roger! Teri & Sydney have passed away, both from cancer. Vanessa still keeps in touch with Danielle & Nikki Knight. I wish there was a way we could reach out to former Melody/Harmony girls and guys and have a reunion some place. Any ideas?
Tiffany Clark was a sweetheart. There was a bunch of guys who used to close the place down on weekends that really dug her. I remember the faces but the only name I remember is Roger. A tall thin blond guy. I think Roger liked Vanessa too. Good guys that group was. I used to see Tiffany & Fred on 86th street all the time. Usually in Grand Union late in the evening where I would occasionally stop after work and pick up a few groceries before heading home. Does anyone know what she’s up to these days?
I remember a dancer named Toni who was a favorite of George the audio guy. She would spend a lot of time in the lounge talking with the guys. Anyone remember a blond named Flame? She was a friend of Jocelyn & Alexandra. Dennis told me that after her Melody career ended she became a school teacher. She also stole Dominique’s husband from her and had a kid with him. Needless to say there was alot of bad blood between those two. Lots of girls used the theatre as a place to turn tricks. One of those girls was Gypsy. One day Jerry decided to do a sting operation on her. He arranged to have Seymour proposition her during a lap dance so he could fire her when she accepted his offer. I managed to get Rose to go and mention this to Gypsy so she wouldn’t lose her job. What happened was funny. Gypsy started screaming at Seymour and runs out to the box office to tell Jerry that she was propositioned by Seymour demanding that he get thrown out of the theatre. I think Tommy and I only paid admission a couple of times before Bob started letting us in for free. He knew that if there was ever any trouble we would help out. All in all the Melody was a great place. Many many memories. Someone should make a movie about it!
I see Vanessa every now and then when I visit NYC. She was married to Dennis (RIP) for about 5 years so she could get a green card. She is doing very well and still looks good. She has a great job and really straightened her life out. The closest thing in NY to the Harmony was Tina’s place on 6th Ave which is long gone. There was another club that Dennis told me about that was owned by Mason reese the former child actor where some of the Harmony girls worked at. Sadly that place is closed. Dennis and I used to go to Montreal alot because the strip club scene up there rocks. I still try to get up there once every year and take in a Canadiens game too. The best club is the Cafe Cleopatra. It is the closest thing to the Melody that I have ever seen. The girls do lap dances for $10 a song and you get pretty ngood mileage. I have been propositioned there all the time. But back to the Melody. That place was the best! So many colorful characters there, both customers and girls. Tommy and I used to share on of Seymours tickets to the Ranger games at the Garden. So many memories. I think that I could write a book about the place. From 84 til 86 I was up there more than I was at my own house! I gotta go for now but I’ll be back on later to post more stuff.
Subway John, now there was a character. He was in love with Roxy and became enraged when she started seeing Tom. Tom had a way with the ladies and they all seemed to like him. He and Roxy saw each other for many years and still keep in touch. Sadly he told me last year that she is suffering from lung cancer.
There was another customer named John who worked with Seymour as a messenger downtown. He was head over heels for Jeannie. Lots of guys loved Jeannie and she was also one of Eddie’s favorite girls. She had a perfect ass. She would pretend to get upset whenever Eddie would whip it out! Jeannie and her husband Carlos also did a live sex show at one of the theatres on 7th Ave. Another girl who worked the shows with her b/f was Jillian Morehead and I always used to tease her that if her boyfriend couldn’t make it to the show then I would be happy to fill in for him. She always used to laugh but one Friday afternoon she came up to the Harmony looking for me. She needed me to fill in and all the guys were egging me on. I had to go and do the show with her or I’d loose face. A couple of the guys even came over and bought tickets to the show! I was da man that day!! Without the Melody/Harmony that afternoon never would have happened. This is conclusive proof that the Melody was the place to be!
Glad to hear that Ray is still around. Most of the old timers have moved on to the Melody in the sky. Everyone always liked Ray. He is one heck of a good guy. Tell him that Alex says hello next time you see him for me.
I have a Veri Knotty story for you. This happened at the McDonald’s on Canal Street next door to Diamond Lil’s. My friend Tom was working a rare closing shift at McD’s and I had nothing better to do so I went to Diamond Lils where I was waiting for Tom to close the restaurant and meet me next door. Veri Knotty was working there that night and recognized me from the Melody so she came over to say hi. One thing led to another and I ended up sneaking her into McD’s basement stockroom and let the fun began! A good time was had by all. This one night where Diamond Lil’s was the place to be.
Nat was a math professor at Brooklyn College. I remember Bob well. He was a good friend of my buddy Dennis, who also took lots of photos of the girls as well as the wrestlers at the hotel ( was it a Ramada or a Days Inn) on 8th Ave & 48th St. The only Georges that I remember from the theatre were George the bouncer, George the audio man and a Japanese customer named George who was at the theatre every weekend. Dennis had thousands of photos of the Melody/Harmony girls in his house. When he passed away his cousin Jane who was his only survivor rented a driveway dumpster and threw everything out. After I got married my wife threw out all my pics from the theatre. I still haven’t forgiven her for that. I remember one week when Crystal Blue had worked the burlesk shows during the week. As she was leaving the Melody on a Sunday night she was dragging her suitcase through the lobby and she put it down to give Izzy a peck on the cheek and her luggage tag was staring me in the face with her name and address. I never told a sole about it until just now. She and Jerry had a semi serious thing going on so I knew she was off limits.
I remember that week in September of 1979 well. I had my pic taken with Leslie Bovee as well. I don’t remember the particular show that you described but I can just imagine how hot it was at the Melody that day. J.J. was a great guy. We used to close the theatre down on Fri & Sat nights. I wonder what happened to him? Do you remember Elke Winter? She was nice. One of the best looking girls at the Melody was Linta Young, a Portugese girl from Newark. The problem with her was that she was a bitch. She was married at the time to an asian guy, who we all thought was a lucky sob. One day a few of us went up to one of the incall apartments on 48th St just west of 8th Ave and who was up there waiting to be serviced….Linta’s husband. When we asked him why the hell he had to go up to a place like that he told us that she doesn’t give him any at home! Poor guy. Like you say, the Melody was the place to be!
When the Melody was reincarnated as the Harmony Bob and Jerry were the owners. I’m sure that there were silent partners as well. I remember Susaye London well. She really enjoyed her time at the Mel/Har. Danielle was something else, totally hot! I have seen recent pics of her and even though she is in her 50’s she is still just as hot as she was 25-30 years ago. She is another rare story of a Melody girl who went on to lead a successful life with a great legit job. The wall dances were the best. One time one of the girls whose name I don’t remember, but she was Roxy’s cousin was giving me a wall dance and she unzipped my pants and pulled out my junk and discreetly slid it inside for a few seconds. Then she told me that if I wanted more we could go to the Markwell. All I remember about the rest of that night was that I didn’t end up at the Markwell with her. Yup the Melody was the place to be. I wish it was still around!
Speaking of fetishes, I remember Frenchy who had the girls pee on him. You didn’t want to be in proximity to Frenchy thats for sure! I remember Andy (son of Louie the porter) when he turned 18 and first started hanging out at the Harmony. The girls loved him. I know he was banging Jackie Blaine and Cary with no cash involved. I heard through the grapevine about 10 years ago that Cary died of aids. She turned lots of tricks out of the Mel/Harm and supposedly slept with drug dealers so she could get coke from them. Eddie used to go for the younger looking girls such as Jeannie and Bianka B. We used to see the odd celebrity up there. Lots of WWF wrestlers and a band leader from a very long and still running “late night” tv show. Yes, the Melody was the place to be!
My friend Tom took me up to the Melody in 1978 for the first time. It was amazing, my jaw just dropped! I went for the bacala right away with Vanessa. I also enjoyed the action along the walls. It was a sad day when the NYFD put a stop to it. Jean Dalton was freakin' hot! I remember that she shared an apartment with desiree du Soir in the west village off of 6th Ave around 13th St. I wonder what she’s up to these days or even if she is still alive. Lots of the dancers lead very fast lives and I imagine that not all are still with us. I know that Teri Swan & Sydney McClain have passed away from cancer and Bianka B met a violent death up in RI, I think. I did end up seeing one of the dancers (Rose) a nice Jewish girl from Bayside in ‘85. She moved into my apartment and we lived together for about 6 months. We went up to Toronto one weekend and we were in a video arcade on Yonge Street and some guy came up to me and asked how much to date my girlfriend! I didn’t bite as the thought of under cover vice cop ran through my mind.