BILL MARGOLD

Porn started in L.A. when Art Kunkin published

nudity in a little paper called Open City.

Charles Bukowski was a contributor.  Art closed that down and opened the L.A. Free Press which was one of the early underground, alternative anti-war papers. It became big.

Besides Bukowski we got the ultimate

cartoonist Ron Cobb out of it.  I think

he moved to Australia and did an animated film, Heavy Traffic.  Sort of pseudo-masochistic.

 It did real well

As porn began, the "go to" casting agency was

Reb Sunset International.  Owned by

Reb Sawitz and run by 

William Margold

Bill had a little paper he ran and I was a contributing artist.  That's when and how

I met the so called "Gawd Father of Porn".

For awhile I was the porno cartoon king of L.A. 

 That was then.

Bill was a power player back then.

Google;  William Margold.  I had not seen him

since the 80's and wanted to touch bases.

FADED GLORY

Bill is older now.  Doesn't perform anymore.

He lives in a dimly lit apt in Hollywood with

a cat.  He still writes for the last of the sex rags...the L.A. x...press.  It's gone from 30 to 40 pages down to twelve.  He doesn't get paid for it.

Fortunately he befriended someone years

ago who is filthy rich and pays his rent.  Otherwise

he'd probably have to get a real job.

I asked him about a porn star I knew for 

awhile.  Her name was Serena. She had lived in

Eddie Nash's bldg. at the same time I did.

Her boyfriend like to shoot guns in the bldg.

I remembered her because she had inverted nipples.

As it turns out Bill had recently done an article on her.  She had a book out.

Brite Lights, Lonely Nights

Probably  the only pussy he gets anymore.  They 

aren't exactly busting down my door either.

He was going to Vegas to be inducted into the

porn hall of fame. 

He now considers himself to be a 

porn historian


Note:  I was with the L.A. Free Press when Larry Flynt bought it.  In an effort to transition to the new paper I approached Jay Levine his editor.
I offered to confess to being a spy and doing a burglary for the FBI.


Before anything could happen Larry Flynt got shot.  End of job.  End of story.


Jay Levine went on to start the L.A. Weekly which is still going strong to this day.