Community Corner
Hollywood Portrait: The Biker
This retiree has watched Hollywood from his Harley for 36 years.
Name: Biker Jerry
Age: 67
Original Hometown: Ludlow, CA. “It’s a little town in the Mojave Desert on Interstate 40.”
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What brought you to Hollywood: Hollywood brought me to Hollywood, just by being here. It’s Hollywood. Everyone in the world wants to be in Hollywood. So I park on Hollywood Boulevard every day. I have friends here, people I’ve known here for a long time, lots of old friends, and old people who aren't friends too.
Do you live here now? Yeah. On Bronson.
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What do you do for a living? I live for a living. I’m retired. Used to be a trucker. Also drove taxis, drove vans. Mostly trucks.
What kind of motorcycle is this? It’s a ’99 Harley Electra-Glide. Twin-cam 96-cubic inch 1584cc engine. Air cooled, four stroke.
It’s huge. How much does it weigh? 870 pounds.
It’s a classic Hollywood bike. Been in lots of movies, this bike. The Departed, Ghostbusters, In the Line of Fire, Point Break. TV shows too— Miami Vice, Dragnet, CHiPs, Twin Peaks.
Where do you ride? Everywhere. All over.
How many years have you been parking here on Hollywood? Well, let’s see. Since 1975.
Hollywood has gone through many changes since then. What do you think of them? The changes? Well, some are good, some are bad. I like Hollywood-Highland, how many people are coming here, that’s good for Hollywood.
What I don’t like is there are so many cops here now, you can’t get in fights like you used to. Used to be you could get in fights all night around here, nobody cared. Happened every day, every night. Now you get into one fight, they take you to jail. That I don’t like so much.
