As told to Robert B. Griffith. Guaranteed good read. Not your usual story about a prostitute of fame or a street hooker. Vickie Star grew up on a Missouri farm during the Great Depression and at the ripe age of sixteen moved to San Francisco where her life change inexorably. She grew to become a well-known madam who went through her own hell including being involved in a machine gun chase on the SFO Bay Bridge and later dealing with rattlesnakes in the Nevada desert.