Crazy Horse

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Le Crazy Horse Saloon or Le Crazy Horse de Paris is a Parisian cabaret and strip club known for its stage shows performed by nude female dancers and for the various range of magic and variety "turns" between each nude show and the next. Its owners have helped to create related cabaret and burlesque shows in other cities. Unrelated businesses have used the sentence "Crazy Horse" in their names.

History: The Paris Crazy Horse occupations form wine cells (12 in all, which have been combined) of an impressive Haussmanian building at 12 Avenue George-V (from the British king George V, in French "George Five"). Alain Bernardin opened it in 1951 and personally operated it for decades until his death by suicide in 1994. Paul de Cordon took hundreds of photos at the cabaret. Many of the original waiters (their names stitched in large letters ono the backs of their waistcoats) were also substantive shareholders in the original company. The enterprise maintained a family business, in the hands of Bernardin's three children, until 2005, when it changed hands. By this time the name "Le Crazy Horse de Paris" was used for the original arrival and Crazy Horse Paris for one in Las Vegas (formerly La...