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I LIVED IN A 1956 VW VAN FOR TWO YEARS !  

stardust81937 87M
4345 posts
6/27/2016 3:25 am
I LIVED IN A 1956 VW VAN FOR TWO YEARS !

Two years prior to my buying the place where I've been living for the past forty years, a comfortable house trailer that belonged to my ex-brother in law, was my home.

I would have stayed right THERE if one of California's huge fires hadn't swept from Agora (a suburb of L.A.), all the way to the Pacific Ocean in Malibu, and burned the trailer to the ground.

I was fortunate because I wasn't home at the time of the fire, and even more lucky because most of my important papers and pictures were stored in a Rent-by-the-month storage locker in the Los Angeles area.

All of 1974, and 1975 found me living in a 1956 Volkswagon Van that I had converted into a pretty comfortable little home. Even though the VW Van was old, it had a rebuilt 40 engine, and a good transmission in it. I was born in 1937, so --at the time I lived in the old van I was in my mid-thirties-- I was 37 and 38 to be exact.

I wasn't penniless at the time. In fact I had a pretty good chunk of change saved up from a little porn business a group of ex-army friends and I, had earned making, and then selling and renting, Super 8 mm porn films to the beer bars located all over Hollywood.

Our business was legal and there was nothing wrong--legally-- with what Arch, Bill, Tidus, Ralph, and myself had been doing for a couple of years. We made scads of money, because the beer bars in Hollywood at that time were all showing porn movies in their bars. The U.S. Supreme Court had recently lifted the ban on porn, and there were no computers at that time to flood the marketplace like what's happened in today's world. Men all over were eager to watch porn on a screen. It was a brand new thing.

Our business was doing great, and as a bonus the boys and I got so much pussy--a different girl every night if we wanted it--that me and another one of the guys, Bill, started sucking cocks for a little sexual variety...

We would have stayed in the business, but a syndicate from New Jersey moved in on us, and all of us wanted to stay alive... We divided up our loot, and took off in different directions. All the filming equipment we used had been rented, so there was no loss of our capital in that department.

By the time this all went down, I was getting fed up with crowded city life anyway, and was longing for a place where I could look out and see nature, and not a bunch of people, vehicles and buildings.

I didn't want to spend the money I'd made living in a rented apartment, so I chose the old VW Van for a good opportunity to use as a home while I looked for what I finally found... This, my remote desert home.

My friends in L.A. thought I would sell off this place I bought in 1976, and return to the city after living here a couple of years. But I fell in love with the Mojave Desert, and threw myself into making the cabin I bought out here into a comfortable home.... I've never seriously looked back, and never regretted my moving here away from the maddening crowds, out into the open desert--a wasteland to most city people, but a paradise to me.

by david stardust... Monday morning, June 27, 2016...

The two pictures below are of that old VW Van.. which I've kept on my property as a memory of my early life...






stardust81937 87M
8340 posts
6/28/2016 1:51 am

    Quoting sweet_VM:
    Those Van's are so cool. I am VW van owner myself but it is a newer one 2000 Camper Van V6. Love it for camping. You were smart to do this as it would have save you a lot of money on rent. hugssssssssssss V
I had it fixed up with a stove and a chemical toilet.. It was really very comfortable. Back in the days I lived in it, California was a much less populated place. I traveled all over the West Coast in it until I discovered this place that I finally bought in 1976. Yes, Sweetness, living in it did save me a couple of thousand dollars. I also had a number of 'sweet' adventures in it.. XOXO david


sweet_VM 65F
81699 posts
6/27/2016 8:38 am

Those Van's are so cool. I am VW van owner myself but it is a newer one 2000 Camper Van V6. Love it for camping. You were smart to do this as it would have save you a lot of money on rent. hugssssssssssss V

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