out of prison to
help them take down Diggs. In no time, Black Torpedo Ray was back on
Flicker Street. He had scores to settle and was not to be trifled
with. The first thing he did was have dinner with his daughter Kicia
Blessing (b. 1955). Kicia's mother was the exotic Indian belly dancer
Acacia Krishnamurti aka Acacia Blessing, who Ray wed briefly from
1954-1958. Acacia was a discovery of Javier's and was popular at the
club. Kicia was hanging out in Flicker Street with the bohemian
crowd. Ray was proud of her for not being a whore or a druggie. Ray
next went to the Lucifer Club, where he confronted Diggs and warned
him to sign the club over to him or die. Diggs laughed and accused
Ray of tripping on some manner of drug. Ray beathim senseless and
forced Diggs to sign the club over to him.

It had come to Javier's
attention that Ray was free from prison. Javier went to Hallmark and
sought out Ray, who was staying with Ulysses Reale. Javier was glad
to see his friends again and together they mapped out a strategy to
get the club back on its feet, so to speak, as Diggs had driven it
into the proverbial ground and made of it his own personal pleasure
palace of pimping and hard drugs. Their efforts were successful,
though it took a few years. Ray integrated the club more, and forced
the macks and dealers who hung out there to do their business on the
streets, not inside the club.

The disco craze of the late 70s inevitably hit the Lucifer Club like a tsunami, and with