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Take a walk on the Other side

Made famous in the early 1970s as one of Andy Warhol’s “Superstars” and immortalized in the lyrics of Lou Reeds song “Take a Walk on the Wild Side”, Holly Woodlawn died yesterday in Los Angeles at age 69.

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Born Haroldo Santiago Fenceschi Rodriguez Danhakl in Puerto Rico, the individual changed the given name to Holly Woodlawn and traveled from Miami, FLA to New York City by hitchhiking part of way.

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Though a cross-dresser, Haroldo never went through with the snip, snip surgery.

 

12 Comments on Take a walk on the Other side

  1. “Plucked her eyes along the way, then he was she”

    Must be some kind of cross dresser, transgender right of passage.

    The wiki entry says Haroldo stole some jewelry to pay for the trip North out of Miami, but only made it as far as Georgia, then had to hitch-hike the rest of the way to NYC. I would guess Holly never went home again after that.

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