The Other Hollywood by Legs McNeil, Jennifer Osborne, Peter Pavia Read Free Book Online Page B
Because, you know, they called me the John Derek of the porno business.
LINDA LOVELACE : My closest companion when I was with Chuck was my vibrator.
LENNY CAMP : In the meantime, behind my back, Chuck gave Vickie his number. Within a matter of a week or so, Chuck, Linda, and Vickie were traveling to Coconut Grove and South Miami, putting on shows for people.
I didn’t even know. A guy that worked in a bank down in Miami told me about it. He said, “Remember that guy, Chuck Traynor? He got two girls, and they put on an act. And they don’t get that much money, either.”
I said, “Yeah, that sounds like them.”
CHUCK TRAYNOR : See, in Miami, a $100 trick isn’t that easy. Unless you’re tied to a hotel or something, you had $20 tricks, maybe, or $25 tricks, but Linda was limited because she wasn’t really glamorous. She didn’t have any clothes. She couldn’t go to the beach and talk with anybody because, you know, she is not really a talker.
In Miami, if a guy’s going to pay $100 or $150, he wants a chick he can take out to a club and carry on a conversation with. So we decided to go to Aspen, Colorado, because a friend of mine was opening a club out there, and he really liked the way our bar had been clearing $2,000 a week.
LINDA LOVELACE : I had learned not to press Chuck for details, but this time he volunteered a little information. A friend of his had just started a bar in Aspen, and he needed a go-go dancer and an after-hours hooker.
CHUCK TRAYNOR : We got as far as Biscoe, Arkansas. We were in a Volkswagen, and a drunk rolled into us and totaled the car.
LINDA LOVELACE : All of a sudden, Chuck’s little Volkswagen just took off. It had been hit from behind by a station wagon driven by a drunk. We swerved to the right, then to the left, then off into a ditch, and over onto one side. The next thing I knew, truck drivers were crawling all over the car, looking for a way to lift us out.
I heard one of them say, “That little car has had it.”
CHUCK TRAYNOR : The accident put Linda back in the hospital, and it put me in the hospital for a couple of days—screwed my teeth up here in front. The ski season was starting in Colorado, and by the time Linda got out of the hospital it was too late to go there. The guy hired another manager, and we were stuck in Little Rock.
LINDA LOVELACE : Little Rock was definitely not Chuck’s sort of town. So we got a ride to New York—and that was definitely Chuck’s kind of town.
CHUCK TRAYNOR : I didn’t know anybody in New York, but I’m a pretty fair cameraman, and I had done loops in the past. So we came here to the cold and rented an apartment in New Jersey.
LINDA LOVELACE : After putting up a month’s security and month’s rent, Chuck had less than $50 left. He invested it in purchasing every sex tabloid in New York City.
There were hundreds of people who made their livings peddling sex in New York. What’s amazing to me was how quickly one got to know them all. They were all links on the same chain; you met one person, and he passed you along to the others. The still photographers knew the club owners who knew the madams who knew the eight-millimeter directors who knew the peep show kingpins who knew the adult bookstore owners and on and on. I swear, before the week was out, Chuck Traynor managed to meet every prominent pervert in New York.
CHUCK TRAYNOR : When we got to New Jersey, Linda went up to see her sister in upstate New York. I stayed in the city and said, “I’m gonna go find something to do.”
So I went down to Forty-second Street and met a black guy who wanted to shoot crotch shots of chicks. I said, “I got a chick for ya.”
I went back, got Linda, she posed for him, and then I asked, “What’s there to do here in New York? A country boy like me? A good honest John…”
Rent
NEW YORK CITY
1970–1971
FRED LINCOLN : I did my first loop for Butchie Peraino. I went to this place in
LINDA LOVELACE : My closest companion when I was with Chuck was my vibrator.
LENNY CAMP : In the meantime, behind my back, Chuck gave Vickie his number. Within a matter of a week or so, Chuck, Linda, and Vickie were traveling to Coconut Grove and South Miami, putting on shows for people.
I didn’t even know. A guy that worked in a bank down in Miami told me about it. He said, “Remember that guy, Chuck Traynor? He got two girls, and they put on an act. And they don’t get that much money, either.”
I said, “Yeah, that sounds like them.”
CHUCK TRAYNOR : See, in Miami, a $100 trick isn’t that easy. Unless you’re tied to a hotel or something, you had $20 tricks, maybe, or $25 tricks, but Linda was limited because she wasn’t really glamorous. She didn’t have any clothes. She couldn’t go to the beach and talk with anybody because, you know, she is not really a talker.
In Miami, if a guy’s going to pay $100 or $150, he wants a chick he can take out to a club and carry on a conversation with. So we decided to go to Aspen, Colorado, because a friend of mine was opening a club out there, and he really liked the way our bar had been clearing $2,000 a week.
LINDA LOVELACE : I had learned not to press Chuck for details, but this time he volunteered a little information. A friend of his had just started a bar in Aspen, and he needed a go-go dancer and an after-hours hooker.
CHUCK TRAYNOR : We got as far as Biscoe, Arkansas. We were in a Volkswagen, and a drunk rolled into us and totaled the car.
LINDA LOVELACE : All of a sudden, Chuck’s little Volkswagen just took off. It had been hit from behind by a station wagon driven by a drunk. We swerved to the right, then to the left, then off into a ditch, and over onto one side. The next thing I knew, truck drivers were crawling all over the car, looking for a way to lift us out.
I heard one of them say, “That little car has had it.”
CHUCK TRAYNOR : The accident put Linda back in the hospital, and it put me in the hospital for a couple of days—screwed my teeth up here in front. The ski season was starting in Colorado, and by the time Linda got out of the hospital it was too late to go there. The guy hired another manager, and we were stuck in Little Rock.
LINDA LOVELACE : Little Rock was definitely not Chuck’s sort of town. So we got a ride to New York—and that was definitely Chuck’s kind of town.
CHUCK TRAYNOR : I didn’t know anybody in New York, but I’m a pretty fair cameraman, and I had done loops in the past. So we came here to the cold and rented an apartment in New Jersey.
LINDA LOVELACE : After putting up a month’s security and month’s rent, Chuck had less than $50 left. He invested it in purchasing every sex tabloid in New York City.
There were hundreds of people who made their livings peddling sex in New York. What’s amazing to me was how quickly one got to know them all. They were all links on the same chain; you met one person, and he passed you along to the others. The still photographers knew the club owners who knew the madams who knew the eight-millimeter directors who knew the peep show kingpins who knew the adult bookstore owners and on and on. I swear, before the week was out, Chuck Traynor managed to meet every prominent pervert in New York.
CHUCK TRAYNOR : When we got to New Jersey, Linda went up to see her sister in upstate New York. I stayed in the city and said, “I’m gonna go find something to do.”
So I went down to Forty-second Street and met a black guy who wanted to shoot crotch shots of chicks. I said, “I got a chick for ya.”
I went back, got Linda, she posed for him, and then I asked, “What’s there to do here in New York? A country boy like me? A good honest John…”
Rent
NEW YORK CITY
1970–1971
FRED LINCOLN : I did my first loop for Butchie Peraino. I went to this place in
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