There used to be such a place named “Cloud Nine.” It was in San Diego in December 1982 somewhere on El Cajon Boulevard.

JD Waits and i were moving Maureen’s furniture. Her apartment mate moved to another town and Maureen was looking for another apartment. In the interim, she was going to move her stuff to her father’s garage while she searched. JD and i were in the Coronado Cays and we volunteered to move her stuff in JD’s pickup from Banker’s Hill to Lemon Grove. En route, we passed that place.

JD spotted it and said it truly was Cloud Nine. Then he explained”

“Well, it was a beer bar downstairs, a massage parlor upstairs, and a motel in the back.”

Yep! Cloud Nine.