Comedienne, Phyllis Diller

I booked Timi at the Roxy Nightclub in Lima. I took pictures of Phyllis Diller at the USO in Hollywood. She's from Lima. Phyllis said, "Lima, Ohio. It's a good place to be from! Ha-ha-ha!" Phyllis Diller lived a short while in Lima, Ohio. In her forties, she began telling jokes and stories in local laundromats, to the men and women who were there. She had no idea that this would develop to become her career, so late in life. Well, not "that" late. In a few years she would be in San Francisco appearing at two famous comedy clubs of that era, the ... Read Full Story