When I was residing in the floating island homes in Foster City CA. I
received a phone call one afternoon that took me totally by surprise.
Daniel was calling me from San Diego, he had just been released from the Navy with an honorable discharge and was wanting to spend some time at my place. I had never been to San Diego and was still rather new to the area so we scheduled a short flight from San Diego to South San Francisco International Airpot. We met at the airport and drove to Foster City where he relaxed as I made a steak and salad dinner.
I looked for some kind of entertainment for us to go see when I ran across this ad for "Finocchio's" a female impersonation showcase with live shows for tourists. Its located on Broadway in San Francisco.so
we got ready for the evening show and into San Francisco we went. (Daniel had never seen San Francisco in person so he was really excited.) Once there he was in awe at the beauty but we had plenty of time to look, right now we had to make this show. I put in reservations for one showing. But was invited to stay for every show, and we did.
We were seated right in front of the stage, the show had a two drink minimum so we received two drinks a piece.
I was looking around and noticed that this real old lady was smiling, winking and flirting with me. I told Daniel about the woman but before he could look the woman was at our table. She introduced herself as the owner of the club and sent us both another round of drinks. She told us that we would look good in her line up of stars. Daniel started to laugh nervously and she left our table and said "think about it"
We were dumbfounded! "Daniel, she wants you to be a female impersonater in her show"! "No Kim, she wants you for her shows."
"He's right", "I want you to be one of my new highlights" "Oh my" was all I could get out then the woman told us that she had scheduled a trip to Burbank for that night to an underground showcase that runs all night. So for the hell of it we went to one of the largest drag show extravaganzas. But early the next morning Daniel explained to all of our new made friends that we were new to California and that that was a wonderfull welcome and that we appreciated the compliments but that I was a female, "a real one" . Daniel later became good friends with one of the men in the group and had started his love for the city. Soon he moved from my place and moved to the city where he would spend the rest of his life..
