Legend: Evelyn West

Evelyn West: Featured Legend of Red Hots Burlesque

Red Hots Burlesque is all about outrageous women. And our legend this week had outrageous written all over her!

EVELYN WEST

Known as her nicknames “$50,000 Treasure Chest” and “The Hubba Hubba Girl,” burlesque legend Evelyn West was arguably the most well endowed woman to take the stage anytime in the mid-’40s through her retirement in the ’60s. Well, at least West would argue that point. One of the most photographed pin ups alongside Bettie Page, West had a nose for getting in the news. The story goes that she once pelted rival Anita Ekberg with a tomato when Ekberg attempted leaving a strip club while Ms. West was performing. After World War II Ms. West worked for the President Follies Theater in San Francisco. When she was near 60, San Francisco’s Mitchell Brothers extended an invitation for her to perform in their clubs as they had fellow legends Tempest Storm and Blaze Starr, but West declined, enjoying her retirement in Florida. West passed away in 2004.