The name Catherine D'Lish (the famous burlesque performer originally from Seattle, Washington) came up in this forum in July 2013 (first mentioned in post #13).
I found this interview with the burlesque performer (warning: slightly racy -- burlesque-style -- images), in which she discusses how she started stripping as a teenager (presumably in Seattle in the mid-1980s):
http://www.appletonpinupgirl.com/2013/03/interview-with-us-burlesque-performer.html
Catherine D'Lish seems to have come on the LA scene in the early 1990s. If she was stripping in Seattle just before that, in the mid- to late 1980s, she may have encountered the "Lacey" who went missing from the Seattle gentleman's club scene around 1988 -- and/or the woman who would later become FLEK. Her interview gives insight, anyway, to one of the opportunities that would have been available to a runaway, a foster child, or any young woman looking to make money in the Seattle area at the time.
I came across the interview as I was trying to learn D'Lish's name. She evades the question, I think, of how she got her name in the interview -- but I'd been wondering whether her name might, in fact, just be "Catherine (or Cathleen) Lish" -- "Lish" appears to be a common enough name in the Seattle/Tacoma, Washington, area -- maybe what's funny (to her) about her name is that it's a play on her real last name -- i.e., the double entendre "of Lish" and "tasty." Maybe FLEK got to LA and was trying to look up an old acquaintance -- or a contact given her by a mutual friend -- Catherine (d') Lish, from her stripping days in Seattle.
