Dawn over the Arroyo Seco (the Rose Bowl) finds two homeless buddies starting their day with a boot kick in the ass and the security patrol order to “Move on!”
Wiggie and Fargone take the reader on a day’s and night’s journey inside their meandering lives, filled with whimsy, humor, bravado, compassion and the daily rounds of surviving on the streets of the glass and steel canyons of the late 1970s.
Their story ties in with a Bel Air entrepreneur club owner, an Afro-American grad student employed by the club, a classmate of the black grad student whose life is intertwined by young, immigrant female housekeepers and the unexpected outcomes of these relationships coming full circle and reconnecting with the homeless men as they decide to leave LA.
The stories are fictional but based on some of the “real” people I encountered during my life as a City of Angels wannabe artist.
