Lou Lou and Mark Dalton kneeling on pillows. Royal members of Casa de San Jose Inc. are in back of them. Left to right, Identifiable members are Jim Cassara, Carla La Mar, Crescent Shalimar, Carmelita (Robert Niebla), Jim Still behind Crescent, Bill Gates wearing a cowboy hat, Ray Aguilar (second to last) and Arvis Prince. Robert Niebla was also known by the name Camelita. Raymond Aguilar was also known by the name Rachel. Raymond P. Aguilar was a member of an informal association of female impersonators, later to become Casa de San Jose. He founded the first chapter of the International Imperial Court System (IICS) in San Jose. Its purpose was as a social community service organization that donated monies raised to various charities. Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
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