‘Carol Doda Topless at the Condor’ is a revealing, insightful documentary

“Carol Doda Topless at the Condor” (2024) – “No matter who you are, or where you come from, or what you like to do, something exciting and wonderful and different happens in San Francisco.” A television reporter uttered the aforementioned statement, via archival footage, in directors Marlo McKenzie and Jonathan Parker’s documentary, “Carol Doda Topless at the Condor”, about Carol’s odyssey as a topless dancer and risky trendsetter.  In 1964, Carol, a cocktail waitress at The Condor – located in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco – soon began…