"Desperate Rock'N'Roll" Vol. 13

Barris still goes off to Balboa and places like that...
...He likes that scene. Last year at Pacific Ocean Park he noticed all these bouffant babies and he got the idea of spraying all those great puffed-up dandelion heads with fluorescent water colors, the same Kandy Kolors he uses on the cars. Barris took out an air gun, the girls all lined up and gave him fifty cents per, and he sprayed them with these weird, brilliant color combinations all afternoon until he ran out of colors. Each girl would go skipping and screaming away out onto the sidewalks and the beaches. Barris told me , " It was great that night to take one of the rides, like the Bubble Ride, and look down and see all those fluorescent colors. The kids were bopping (dancing) and running around." The Bubble is a ride that swings out over the ocean. It is supposed to be a satelite in orbit.
"But the fellows sky-diving got the best look as they came down by parachute."
In 1948 Petersen put on the first custom-car show in the Los Angeles armory, and this brought customizing out into the open a little. A wild-looking Buik Barris had remodeled was one of the hits of the show, and he was on his way too... (excerpt from "the candy kolored tangerine flake streamline baby" by Tom Wolfe to be continued...)
traxfromwax:
1. Johnny McAdams - Is There No Love For Me, Love? 2. Pearls - Ugly Face 3. Joe Griffith - Big Sandy 4. Three D's - Crazy Little Woman 5. Vince Anthony - Watch My Smoke 6. Honeycones - Rockin' In My Knees 7. Rod Willis - Will Travel 8. Rod Willis - The Cat 9. Tommy Danton - Twenty One 10. Johnny McAdams - Nine O'Clock 11. Seniors - Twist At The Top 12. Alvin & Bill - Typing Jive 13. Casuals - Help Me 14. Daniel Bridges - Oh Happy Days 15. Morty Marker - Tear Down The House 16. Larry Storch - I'm Walkin'
ripped from vinyl in glorious monoloudarama!