Dirty White Boy: Tales of Soho by Clayton Littlewood

Dirty White Boy: Tales of Soho by Clayton Littlewood

Author:Clayton Littlewood [Littlewood, Clayton]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2008-08-19T09:25:00+00:00


"...celebrities lived here. Karl Marx on Dean Street. Canaletto and Casanova also reputedly lived..."

Although I'm hidden, sitting on my little red chair behind the pillar, for some reason I feel as if I'm intruding on her conversation; so I sit quietly and listen.

"By the nineteen-sixties Soho was known mainly for its sex industry..."

Oh, goody. My eyes light up like a naughty schoolboy and I stick my nose around the pillar to watch the crowd's reaction. Two men are smirking and the women all seem to be tut-tutting.

"...number of licensed sex shops, and prostitution is still very much part of Soho."

Suddenly, as if she's been waiting in the wings for her cue, Sue barges out of the brothel doorway like a fearsome Viking warrior, bleached hair trailing behind in her wake. The crowd, mouths open, step aside as she storms through, followed by one of her Eastern European "girls." This is too good to be true. Where's my little black book when I need it? I peer around the other side of the pillar to look at Bird Face's reaction. She squints disapprovingly at Sue from the top of her 1950s pointed glasses.

"Ummm, yes, as I was saying, it's still very much part of Soho life."

Sue, oblivious to Bird Face and the gawping crowd, stands in front of her girl, hands on meaty hips, tapping her Nikeclad foot aggressively. Damn! I'm slightly out of earshot and Bird Face's squawky voice is almost drowning Sue's out, so I'm getting snippets of two conversations at once:

"In the seventies Westminster cut down on the number of sex establishments..." "I've fuckin' told you about this God knows how many times!"



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