The Louche Life

Tom Waits

©1976 Tom Zimberoff / All Rights Reserved • May Not Be Copied or Reproduced in Any Manner

Sightings of Tom Waits were a curiously shared experience, a talking point among night owls like me in early 1970s LA. We might see him shuffling through West Hollywood, east of Beverly Hills and south of the Sunset Strip. But from a drive-by glimpse in the tenebrous light before dawn, he looked like some hapless dude in a slept-in suit, navigating the sidewalk to oblivion within a wedge of corridors that converged at…