The Great Alaskan Bush Company is a product of Anchorage’s oil boom era, when strip club operators didn’t place the same premium on decorum, let alone legality, that Harris enforces today.
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When the original Great Alaskan Bush Company opened in 1979 in downtown Anchorage, about half the dancers had pimps, according to the club’s founding owner, Edna Cox. In a 1985 Anchorage Daily News profile, Cox estimated that she’d run so many pimps off that only one in 10 of her dancers had one.
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