March 20th, 2010, 4:27 am
BOLTMAN STORY TIME!!!
My dad was in the swimming pool business his whole professional life. In the summer of '77, he was a VP of American Products in North Hollywood. They make pool skimmers, lights, filters, etc. Anyway, my summer job that year was working in the warehouse. I was 16, and my first REAL job. Anyway, they had recently moved into this new 8-building complex from an older, smaller complex about 6 months before I started. One day at work, they had me go to the old building to pick up pallets of cartons for new product. The old building was maybe 2 miles away, still in North Hollywood. When I got there, I found this little old man who was the boss, and I asked if I could use their forklift to load my truck. So he walks me through the back manufacturing area to get the forklift, and what do I see? A bunch of middle-age Mexican women working injection mold machines that were producing big, rubber DILDOS!! One lady would trim the excess rubber, one was painting, one was packaging. Big dildos, medium dildos, small dildos, rubber vaginas (really cheap looking by today's standards), Spanish Fly pills, dildos with cranks at the bottom. I couldn't believe it!!! So, when I was done, after I parked the forklift, the little old man gives me a bag full of toys, and all the names on the packages?? Doc Johnson! So I get back to work, and my dad, my boss and all the guys I worked with start cracking up and pointing at me (musta been the look on my face!). Of course, they never mentioned to me what kind of business had taken over the old building, so they had a big laugh at my expense, I guess!!
Anyway, turns out the little old man was THE Doc Johnson (although I'm sure that wasn't his real name..he was definitely Jewish, looked like he should've owned a deli. My dad told me his name, but I forgot a long time ago). I'll never forget this warehouse full of old Mexican ladies working so diligently on all these freshly made sex toys...when you're 16 in 1977 you just didn't see that every day!! So that's my Doc Johnson story. I have a good story about me in the Sharon Tate house, but that's for another time....and thread!
The Dude abides.