Pharaoh Kingsley – broken love goes to Hollywood!

I grew up in Huntington Park, Los Angeles, California. When I was a little kid my older Brothers and sisters use to work as extras in the movies, I always wanted to go with them, but they said I was too little. When I was in High School at Huntington Park High some scenes from the hit summer movie Grease 1978 was filmed at the High School, I loved the movie and wanted to go to Hollywood and work in the movies even more. Our Family home was above the Garage and from the Living room window beyond the Skyscrapers of Downtown Los Angeles, I could see The Famous Hollywood Sign on the Hill. One day after School I was watching an episode of one of my favorite TV Shows Fame when I pointed to the Hollywood sign up on the hill out beyond the living room window and said to my mom ” I am goin’ to go to Hollywood and be on my favorite TV Show!” Mom replied, ” Please don’t, Hollywood is the City of Sin.” Well, I did. About a year after I Graduated from High School in 1981, I was heartbroken that the girl who stole my heart in High School had moved away to New Mexico.

Since the age of fourteen I had worked after school at Woolworths there on Pacific Boulevard in Huntington Park, five years later at the age of nineteen, I wanted to leave my hometown of Huntington Park and make my way to Hollywood. One day as the bus I took to go to work at Woolworths stopped at my bus stop in front of Woolworths, I did not get off to go to work, instead I said to myself ” without Pauline here, there is nothing here in this town for me anymore.” The doors to the bus closed and with a broken heart missing Pauline, I said, ” Hooray for Hollywood! ” I made my way on the buses to my Dream Town and when the bus driver said ” Hollywood and Vine ” I got off the bus and I had arrived!