That's when dispatch called in a report of an extraordinary new breakthrough in Striptease Technology, namely a vintage fashion show to be held at a fancy art-deco hotel on the Sunset Strip, featuring six L.A. bombshells modeling swingtime apparel then peeling down to their swingtime undies.

Bombshells in their underwear? I fired up the cherry tops, double-pumped the
airhorn and pointed the
Five-O half-track towards the city's teeming downtown garment district. The signs were auspicious. Only the night before a couple of blocks away at the ancient, cavernous Palace Theatre, the Five-O delegation attended a triumphant exhibition of the film "Santo Confronts Death," starring
Mexican wrestling immortal el Santo.

Last night 1969's best Mexican wrestling movie, and today a fashion studio hatching schemes of Swingtime Strippers on Sunset? The public most definitely had a right to know. Here's what I found.

  — Nate Nichols