San Francisco Adult Entertainment: Battlefield superintendent spanned world as steward for the outdoors

… I was a barker and it was my job to try and get sailors’ sea pay from them,” he said. “There was a row of whorehouses and bars and strip-joints and they’d come out the gate and I’d yell insults at the command to try and endear myself to the sailors. Then we’d entice them to come in this little store and sell them over-priced civilian clothes or cars.”
Two months was all he needed of life as a “barker.” Shortly thereafter, he packed his belongings in a borrowed sea bag and headed south with a buddy from the Marine Corps.
“It was a tough world in some ways with a lot of drug use and unsettling things and unhappiness,” he said. “I had a few friends who were very nice people but they were prostitutes so it wasn’t like you were going to go on a date with them.”

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