Olive Motel #1

The Olive Motel, down on Sunset Blvd in Silverlake. It’s one of Los Angeles’ most notorious motels. There’s a very narrow driveway into an L-shaped parking lot. What this means is that neither the parking lot nor the rooms can be seen from the street; you have to go inside the motel [...]
Daniella from Fresno
Daniella was from Fresno. Her boyfriend was a gangster wannabe who managed a Burger King. He’d get drunk or high and beat her. He’d take whatever money she had and spend it on drugs, so she hadn’t been able to afford her hormones.
Fresno did not sound like a great place to be transgendered.
Hollywood is everyone’s [...]
Frank Ford, Hollywood 1997

Summer of ‘97 and Frank was on one of his weird kicks. At this point he was sort of starting a one man cult of which he would be the only member but not really the leader. Unlike most cults, Frank’s cult had no leader. It pretty much had to be this way [...]
