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A cannon in the parade blasted into the crowd, hitting Bauman on the left side of her pelvis. as an exotic dancer when she went to Seattle’s first Bastille Day Parade in Pioneer Square in 1970 at age 22. She was a notorious party girl, keeping her friends awake at night and kicking anyone who got in the way of her and her wheelchair.įriends said the red-haired, green-eyed woman who fancied herself a Bette Davis look-alike couldn’t have been any other way.īauman had been living in Seattle for about a year and a half after moving throughout the U.S. She also had a penchant for fancy shoes, even though she had one leg. Though Northwest baby boomers remember her as the disco owner in Pioneer Square - sometimes stopped and recognized at Bremerton grocery stores - friends describe her life as “tragic,” filled with drinking, drugs and health problems, cared for at her Bremerton duplex for the last eight years of her life by her neighbor, 64-year-old Monte Levine.īut she never let her limitations get in the way of a good time.īauman loved the lush images of the musical “Moulin Rouge” and was known for pausing movies on close-ups of Val Kilmer.
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18 at age 63 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease after a nomadic life of dancing and partying. Subscriber Center – Port Orchard IndependentĪnd the bar’s four-year run showed how one person, and one of her limbs, can change history without even trying.īauman died at her home in Bremerton Nov.Subscriber Center – North Kitsap Herald.