Candy Barr

Candy Barr, 70, whose inspired stage name and beguiling striptease wiles ignited naughty male fantasies among '50s-era Texans, died Dec. 30 at a hospital in Victoria, Tex. She had pneumonia.Abe Weinstein's Colony Club in downtown Dallas, a few blocks from City Hall, was the scene of Miss Barr's nightly triumphs. Big-spending businessmen, conventioneers out on the town, local politicos, cops and hustlers, not to mention wide-eyed country boys from Canton or Waxahachie all crowded into the club to ogle the blonde beauty.Outfitted in her trademark Texas costume -- 10-gallon hat and cowboy boots, pasties and 'scanty panties' -- and waving cap-gun six-shooters, she gave them a show they wouldn't soon forget.With that name and that reputation, she became a Texas folk hero. (Texas Monthly made it official in 1984, naming her one of its 'perfect Texans,' along with Lady Bird Johnson and other notables.In 1975, Oui magazine paid the 41-year-old candy barr $5,000 to pose nude.In recent years, she had lived alone in a small frame house and rarely ventured out. She liked it that way,she said in 2001.