Swami X - Comedian
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Swami X belongs to an older generation of boardwalk performers from the 1970's. During that time he concerned himself less with making a dollar and more with scoring a girl. He once flowed poetic one liners soaked in sexual revelry, often participating in political animosity. While performing, he felt his intellect was on display and poetry on the boardwalk was more than a mere gimmick as he feels the boardwalk has become. He once drew crowds of fans, among them, the young present mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa. The development surge of Marina del Rey in the late seventies, has turned him from entertainer to spectacle, and while he remains Swami X, the boardwalk has replaced it's raw performers with a more polished clientele. He retired in 1985.
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