I've been lax in posting lately despite continuing to research and read about Laura and her work. In doing so, I've been thinking about Laura's husband Otto a bit the last few days after photographing her book Pied Piper From Outer Space in its entirety, wherein she mentions him, though supposedly in a fictional manner as the book claims to be. In response to her supposed flying saucer ride Otto supposedly dismissed the episode and was angry that dinner was late. In response she depicts him as a brainless fool:
"(I had married Otto because he seemed open-minded, only to find this wasn't the case because he didn't have an opinion in his head to express for anyone or anything, let alone against it. Except when he had a drink or two at parties, then invariably he would tell the world that if he had all the rejection slips I had received since beginning to write, years before...he would quit the insurance business and go into the paper business.)"
In real life, Otto was a chef and business owner and had died in 1962, two years before the book was published. Despite Laura saying that the divorce was amicable in other publications, she seems rather vindictive towards him in the passage.
Up until at least 1960 Otto owned either a restaurant or bar. In the 1957 Directory and Street Guide of Dearborn Township Marxer's Bar is listed as being located at 27332 Michigan Avenue in Inkster. An establishment that would later become the location of the My Place Lounge:
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| Detroit Free Press, November 14, 1976 |
Previous to the bar Otto owned a restaurant.
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