Dallas Strip Clubs: Ex-stripper, Jack Ruby reunited in mural
Gordon, a green-eyed redhead who was 20, worked as a stripper at Ruby’s Carousel Club on Commerce Street in downtown Dallas. Now, at 66, she is thought to be the last living woman who danced at Ruby’s club during that period in November 1963.
“I did what I did,” she said last week. “No sense regretting what you’ve done. I had no education and I had to have a way to support my child, and that was the way I did it.”
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Randy Redmond, a colorful Dallas businessman, is putting a little gloss on her golden years. He is immortalizing Gordon, Ruby and two other Carousel Club strippers on a mural in back of his building at 2616 Commerce in lDeep Ellum. Redmond rents the building for parties, and the mural adorns the entrance to a faux speakeasy in the alley.
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Gordon was born in Sulphur Springs in 1943 and was raised in Oak Cliff. She had a 12-year career as stripper Joy Dale.