A peaceful Sunday

Well it's Sunday. Had a pretty good weekend. Started Friday nite.

Friday evening we had the honoring of having Heidi Galli, Shelia, Karla, Danny and his wife over for dinner here in Eagle Rock. These friends go way back. I met them in 1976 before summer as I was still in High School when I first started going to the Sugar Shack (a teenage night club in North Hollywood, CA). You had to be fewer than 21 to get in, but of course there were those perverts that looked younger than they were. I didn’t realize this until I was much older. Older pervs, Guys who preyed on young meat and flesh. I think I was a bit odd for them, as they never bothered me. I think at that time they were chicken hawken’ for young blonde boys with blue eyes. I remember my friend John Besselo (I think that is how you spell his name) telling me as were painting a backdrop for a high school play in the auditorium…. “My mother tells me older men want to @uck me cause I am blonde and blue eyed and they like that.” I had a crush on him but didn’t tell him I did, I just smiled and told him he wasn’t pretty enough and they wanted pretty things no a challenge!

The weekends couldn’t come fast enough. We spent most of the week preparing our attitude for fun at the Shack. Sometimes we would go on a Wednesday as it was the third most popular day to go (Friday and Saturday of course being the first and second). If I didn’t get a ride from a friend, I would hitch hike which at that time mostly safe (except if you had blonde hair and blue eyes). The hard part was getting back home. At 2:00 in the morning your rides (if not your friends) were most likely going to be an old horny man or wasted hippies. I preferred the hippies… at least I knew I didn’t have to have sex with them!~

There were several clicks at the Shack. The Valley kids (mostly from rich families and simi adventurous), the Beverly Hills kids (rich, bored and had lots of connections for drugs), and then the Beach kids (really bored, hated their parents and found the rest of us entertaining). I danced on American Bandstand and the Real Don Steele Show from 1973 – 1977 so most of the crowd I had encountered there. The first time I saw (I say saw as I didn’t actually meet him until later) Chuckee Starr was at a taping of the Real Don Steele Show. I think the New York Dolls were taping their appearance when down the alley that was next to the Studio on the KHJ-lots, comes this he/she of a person with at least 6” platforms, blue jeans cut into hot pants with fridge hanging from them, tube top and a banner wrapped around him like a beauty queen winner that stated “SWEET”. Needless to say I thought I saw it all then!

Later at a tapping of American Bandstand I was introduced to the word BI…. “Buy? What am I supposed to buy?” That was my response to question a pretty young guy asked me between tapings “Are you BI?” I had no idea what the hell that meant until he then explains the meaning. I then was more confused as I always thought you either like boys or girls not both! I sense have learned to accept all.

Back to the Shack and our little reunion with some friends. It was a nice to see old friends. Catching up is always great for conversation. What we have done, what we should have done, talking about all the crazy things we did… then looking each other and wondering why we are still alive!

OK, well more later, my life has many roads. I decided to let you in on some of them, so enjoy.