As soon as I read the words daughter of a rock star and a pinup model in the description, I knew I had to read it.
After reading further, I learned that Dan Wilson from the surf rock group The Ventures was her dad. The 60’s are my favorite music period and I know a lot of The Ventures songs. As I was reading the book and different songs were mentioned, I asked Alexa to play them.
I didn’t know who her mother, Nancy Bacon, was until I read the book. She was a pinup model, writer, and a had a lot of romantic encounters with celebrities. I am now reading her autobiography called Legends and Lipsticks: My Scandalous Stories of Hollywood’s Golden Era.
Back to So L.A…
I really enjoyed this book as well as her writing style. I got a brief history of historic and regular L.A. sites and theaters through her eyes. She has a bunch of interesting stories about her life growing up. She has a love of horses and animal welfare, and later became a writer and a film critic where she got to interview her idols and more. I am not a fan of horror movies, but she is and has done a lot of stuff in regard to that film genre.
Sprinkled throughout the book, is also a brief history of The Ventures. I didn’t realize how big they were in Japan.
