Reflected in the window above, and through the flower stand below, we can see a Florsheim Shoes store on the corner. Beautiful building with great history. 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I have not been able to find one like it in an extensive search online. Did they sell real gems or is this just costume jewelry?SWMBO. Elsa Maxwell (May 24, 1883 - November 1, 1963) was an American gossip columnist and author, songwriter, screenwriter, radio personality and professional hostess renowned for her parties for royalty and high society figures of her day.. Maxwell is credited with the introduction of the scavenger hunt and treasure hunt for use as party games in the modern era. I just put up for sale in my Etsy shop a first edition 1912 book Mary Frances Cookbook and on the back page was a tiny sticker that said "Whitehouse, San Francisco, $2.00". Done. !From, Lynda in Austin,Texas. In many ways, it was a world away from the downtown of today, which this weekend will host throngs enjoying the annual Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Parade and accompanying festivities. I am hoping that there is some way to find that missing link. The artist signature I believe says EPSHEIM. I'll bring up the list of books Ann linked to a week or two back. She could write about anything and I would enjoy reading it. Im trying to find someone who wants them. All copies of her work was lost in a fire. : [Two unidentified people at the Weinstein Company department store at 1041 Market : [Two men standing behind the counter at Broemmel's Pharmacy], : [Two unidentified men at the Western Pipe and Steel Company], : [Two officers at landslide area of San Francisco College for Women], : [Two unidentified women working in Levi Plaza], : [Two women coping with transit difficulties during general strike], : [Two soldiers riding horses at the Presidio], : [Two men inside the Main Street Planing Mill], : [Emporium department store at Stonestown], : [Fritz Maytag at the Anchor Brewing Company], : [Rainier Brewery at 15th and Bryant streets], : [Fur salon at the Emporium department store], : [Littleman grocery store at 2139 Polk Street], : [Mayfair grocery store at 2901 Irving Street], : [Patrons shopping at Hartfields department store], : [Sommer & Kaufmann store at 838 Market Street], : [Candy department at Weinstein Company store]. I'll pull off the shelf the Everyman's Library edition of "We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live" and try it out. My older sister and I always wore white gloves and hat when touring SF. The others are presented so that they may be properly remembered as a tangible part of the lives of their customers, shopping destinations where memories were often made. When events coincided with that tendency, such as with the Manson killings and various other events of the explosive '60s, Didion sounded wise and meaningful. (Woodstock end)Dec 6th, 1969? Or: A Mexican peasant-style dress, smocked or embroidered.'". Does anyone remember them? Did Didion ever write about Polanski's trial or follow the girl who testified against him? There's still a flower stand at the same spot but Florsheim's, on the corner of Stockton Street, is now Johnston & Murphy. 60 feet which allowed the building underneath to be gutted and the interior rebuilt in the 1990s. Madeleine is resurrected. Shop bluemooncloset's closet or find the perfect look from millions of stylists. I have been looking for years for a photo or a video of the Christmas Santa calling Happy Hollie. Make a 1-time donation or set up a monthly donation of any amount you choose: "[O]n the morning of John Kennedys death in 1963 I was buying, at Ransohoffs in San Francisco, a short silk dress in which to be married. . As for the 1960s that was a Madison Avenue induced cluster fuck of drugs and sorcery with great background music. -- Bernstein's Fish Grotto at 123 Powell St. featured a nautical decor, with ship's rails and bells, and pilot wheels. . Are you Dr. Ransohoff? Here's a guide to what's real, what's illusion and what's still standing. They are a treasure. " that there was once a fleeting wisp of glory ", The world changed forever in 4 days of early August, 1945. To this day I call it The White House scar. Giving the ordinary life is writing.to me. The paranoia was fulfilled. This is carrying observation over action too far. He had seen an old photo of the building with a tower and thought it looked better than way. Would love to put a photo on here but have no idea how to do that. I wonder if it was one of those. My husband is the great great grand nephew of Raphael Weill. Did you find anything out about the sticker? (U.S., Industry) Gridium, based out of San Francisco, raised $14M for its decarbonization software company for commercial real estate. It brought back so many memories for me as my mother and Nana would take me there as a child until it closed. Or go a little more exotic and crowd into George Mardikian's Omar Khayyam's restaurant on O'Farrell Street for shish kebabs or tchakhukbelli duck, the specialty of the house. Brilliant Ms Didion. Nah it's still the sixties out here in flyover. Comes in original box with original tissue paper wrapping. "'Isn't that the editor's fault? "When did the '60s die? "The Crowley-Milner Cookbook" but in reality, they are standard cookbooks (albeit very nice ones) that were produced by a firm and specifically labeled, due to the high opinion customers held of department stores as arbiters of taste and fashion in the day. It was so big, they had to help you up on it. Her name was Anna Poey (Pinana after marriage) and she was from France. They hang in my office now. But something isn't quite right - he doesn't like the way she is wearing her hair. Writers: Less is More! It has The White House Sticker:), Found this website because I wanted to know about these newborn booties my mother passed down to me. He was also the First Mayor of Mill Valley! First edition, copyright 1920. I recently went to a vintage clothing exhibition and bought a wonderful dress from the 1940s with the White House label in it. cabinets with little doors that open or sliding glass doors, chest with drawers with tiny pulls, table wiht inlaid wood picture of Mt. "She said that the Macy's Santa was really 'Santa's helper. The book was in a Lafayette thrift shop. . The shop space is empty now, the windows papered with "For Lease" signs. We'd love to hear about it; please send us a message. Today, the only big store downtown that's unionized is Macy's. Which, I suppose, says something about her audience and their own (maybe?) Your library may have a subscription too. Or even giving life to the ordinary bits surrounding extraordinary people or events. 2014 California State Association of Counties. With her overwritten tone of ominous significance. Those events of the Manson rampage feel far away to me now. It finally ended in the early 1970s in a wide Revival of Christianity, much to the consternation of the old Christian Denominations.The real theme was, Those were the days my friend. He writes what to him seems worth writing. When I got it home and was cleaning it up, I found a brass plate affixed that stated it came from The White House San Francisco. Cherished brother of Katherine Ransohoff and Julia Ransohoff. 900 block of Lombard Street: Jimmy Stewart plays Scottie, a detective who, while trying to help Madeleine at the urging of her husband, falls in love with her. when they stop at one of San Francisco's many downtown flower stands he suddenly informs her he wants to buy her some clothes. These early reports were garbled and contradictory. Black masses were imagined, and bad trips blamed. But don't go there expecting to climb to the bell tower. I have lots of original photos of The White House and press release photos of HW Alexander. BART was only a plan--voter approval came that November, with revenue service 10 years later. My Grandmother Sarah Aiello worked at the San Francisco TWH in the WWII years. I bought a small painting of a Tudor house that has a sticker on the back that says, "The White House Picture Dept. No visible wear. Brown walked and walked around downtown. In 1933, thebuilding was remodeled into the Bon March departmentstore and Moderne design elements were added. Coincidentally just watched 'True Confessions' last night, written by her and her husband John Dunne.The type used on the cover of the book at the link is classic.Cielo Drive is very, very pricey real estate these days; probably then as well 'Didion is considered a brilliant prose stylist, but she still makes mistakes like "the dress in which she would testify to Gary Fleischman. Without dismantling the frames, we have no idea whether these charcoal drawings are genuine originals or prints. like most of you here, I have fond memories of The White House - riding the "L" Taraval streetcar from home to Market Street. It never got franchised.You can safely ignore Charlie Manson and probably Joan Didion too. It was great seeing someone else remembering this. "It really was a different time," says Rick Laubscher, a native San Franciscan who is the great-grandson of a man who in 1892 founded a delicatessen on Market near Fourth that managed to stay in business for 80 years. I believe this to be an authentically senseless chain of correspondences, but in the jingle-jangle morning of that summer it made as much sense as anything else didShe is directly acknowledging this tendency of hers and critiquing it.I haven't read the book, and can only comment on the snippets here. Thank You. Does anyone have any clue as to who this painter is/was? In the movie, it is the first time we see him so sure of what he wants. I have a picture I inherited from my great aunt that has a 'The White House Picture Department San Francisco' sticker on it. Fuji and Japanese landscape, a chair with a seat that lifts up, and on the seat is an inlaid design that includes a swastika -- (this is well before the Nazis appropropriated it) -- and much more. jingle-jangle morning. I have a beautiful men's robe with the White House label in it that my mother bought for my father in the 1950-60 era. In a way, the 60s ended the day we sold it. Thank you, Professor. 23.5" sleeve length (measured from shoulder), bust 40", hips 42" (7" below waist) Heavy tweed, black and tan with flecks of dark orange LOCATIONS. Hi, this is awesome I am a fourth generation San Franciscan and always love to learn historic information. The on-line museum of North America's independent department stores. That's probably what I liked most about what I read there. "Show me where she is critiquing it, please, Ann. Kai Akker @ 8:53: Very helpful comment. Vertigo: 8 p.m. Thursday. As we moved on with our lives and the stores closed down and seemed forgotten, something happens to awaken our minds. During its renovation at that time, he received two wall clocks he told me used to hang in the lobby of the White House department store. To see where "Vertigo" and other movies filmed in San Francisco were shot, go to sfgate. Most of us thought the sixties were opening a time of infinite possibilities, an Age of Aquarius. Ernie's Restaurant: The fancy eatery that Madeleine sweeps through closed in 1995, a victim of changing tastes. - Ransohoff's Department Store, San Francisco - YouTube This amateur film depicts workers at Ransohoff's Department Store playing characters for their own silent film. Ransohoff's operated as a women's specialty store in San Francisco from the early 20th century until it went out of business in 1976. It's the store where Jimmy Stewart goes to buy clothes for Kim Novak. There is a sticker on the back binding: The White House/San Francisco/Books. In fact, back then, the Emporium was the second-most profit-making store in America. The answer, of course, is both/and, not either/or. Get your order as described or receive your money back. desire to find meaning in the meaningless and unconnected events of all of our lives. 'He came by cable car, didn't he?' "Murakami (I learned from his writer's memoir) goes his own way. "her overwritten tone of ominous significance"Excellent. I recall a dispute years ago over whether The Godfather (Parts 1 and 2) is amoral (encouraging empathy for sociopathic killers) or profoundly moral (the story of a man losing his soul). . Besides making what is generally acknowledged to be one of the 10 best movies ever, Alfred Hitchcock also captured San Francisco circa 1958. OtherMD San Francisco, CA. For three years in the early 60's I skated in the corner White House Department store window at Christmas time on a 7 x 7 foot ice rink - five shows a day. I remember the Grant Ave store had those wonderful glass-doored elevators, and smiling elevator men in smart uniforms who ran them. Paul Ransohoff is located at the address 2116 Sutter St in San Francisco, California 94115. Both Valente and Rick Laubscher grew up in Emporium families, meaning the store that closed for good in 1995 was their family's favorite department store. There's the thrice-married tycoon, now much poorer, who befriends her. Escada, a fancy Italian designer, took over the space at 259 Post St. for years. Good Luck in your search.-Bruce, Thank you so much for doing this! Fromm Fox Furs. Now, I'm hoping that someone reading this will offer some light on this interesting piece. My wife rejected it because it was very out-of-date in terms of the actual recipes.-Bruce. Bernard Herrmann's suspenseful music rises to a haunting crescendo and she emerges, ghostlike, an apparition. She was such an astute observer of America, offering details like that which had emotional resonance for Americans, the stuff from Latin America seemed, to me, as cool and detached as her writing cited here, for example, but without anything to strike home.I felt the same in the book about Dunne, wondering where her pain was for her dying daughter, then skipped the book about her daughter. Vintage timeless classic bag - Real crocodile, this bag is in excellent condition. . San Francisco movie locations from classic films. -- The Fly Trap on Sutter Street, where at one time there really were strips of fly paper hanging from the walls, passed away a few decades ago, but in the 1990s was resurrected on Folsom Street, South of Market. Which she did brilliantly. Have just recently made aware of a letter from my grt grandfather James' brother John, written to James Oct 4, 1888 - John said he had his postion for nearly 9 years. When DID the '60's die?July 20th, 1969? Charlie Manson and his followers were not messengers from the future. Vertigo - Resurrection December 28, 2011 / CitySleuth. He firmly guides her across the road to Ransohoffs, the swanky downtown ladies clothes store. [1], Ransohoff's, which eventually closed in the mid-1970s, supplied a number of props for the studio-based interior scenes. We stayed at a hotel on Sutter, and visited The White House often during our 2 week stay. View source image Before Verdier could take his cargo off of the ship, he sold it to locals on rowboats. Gotti was supposed to greet Scottie when he came in with Madeleine. I still have the sterling silver baby cup and spoon she got for me from the WH with a an embossed date of May 1942, just before I was born. But it was Market Street where people really went to shop. Nearest Locations. Building was created to showcase the Mohr and Yoerk Market, which was the first west coast market to combine meat products with a variety of foods from other departments a blueprint for our modern day supermarkets! 'Mini but not extremely mini. Especially in the scene in Ransohoff's where he wants to buy her some dresses, his movements are obsessive, his stare very direct. I agree that an entire book of that prose would be a slog -- but that excerpt really tells a good story well. "He dresses in dark, generally conservative clothes. Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital And Trauma Center . His murder spree was a strictly boutique, retail operation. I have been trying to find a photo of Happy Holly because, as a kid, that little elf scared me to death! . Thanks again. Even though it reads almost like parody, I think you are being too generous to her. Growing up in UK, the sixties ended with Bloody Sunday 1/30/72 followed the next month with miners' strike and the first of several years of on and off blackouts from coal shortages. I donated mine to a collector. The scene where Judy comes back to the hotel room after making her hair like Madeleine is also very similar. Something more would become the ethos. 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More like this My Town Street Scenes Historical Photos Eddie Vintage Photos Past Leave a review . 21 cm x 30 cm. Some with inlaid wood pictures, a chair with an inlaid swastika on it (this is the 20s, remember, so the symbol was just an Indian or Asian symbol of something) ---cabinets with sliding glass doors and little doors that open, chest with drawers with tiny pulls, dresser with three-part mirror. There are about 20 movie theaters to choose from. Those had to be some amazing times in the Hollywood Hills area. I had been at Woodstock and the Democratic Convention the previous year and I was 18. As a youngster I was scared to death of Happy Hollie and now I want to see a photo to see what all the fuss was about. Michelle S. Tong, Amy Ransohoff, Christy Boscardin> ;Teaching and Learning in Medicine. Located at 1029 K street, the Ransohoff Building was constructed around 1910 for the Mohr and Yoerk Company pork curing business and deli, with the "Parkview Apartments" above. 0 Review . The Brocklebank, 1000 Mason St.: To this day, people refer to this elegant L-shaped apartment building with its sweeping courtyard as the place where Novak lived in "Vertigo." The saddest guy in town when it comes to recalling downtown 50 years ago is Walter Johnson, now secretary-treasurer of the San Francisco Labor Council. Your comment must be approved before it is posted. The puppeteer who created Happy Holly was Lettie Connell Schubert. Even the City of Paris had stores in the suburbs, but The White House only had downtown stores in SF and Oakland. Peek in and you'll see parquet floors nothing like the tile floors (acquired from the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition) that made Hitchcock choose the Podesta Baldocchi in the first place. Cusk (I guess) writes along the lines of what the literary establishment likes.The difference is that Murakami writes about people caught in the midnight world, who meet, part, do things, meet again -- and also tell the story of a woman who decided to go to bed and rarely wakes up, who is transported to a different room (think a little David Lynchian), and tries to find her way back.Cusk's book is about a literary writer who goes to Athens for a week to teach a writing class. Gary Fleischman, wearing his porkpie hat. Gorgeous, deep brown color w/brass hardware. Then the Greyhound to Sutter and a street car down to the WH. So does the Palace of Fine Arts (Marina Boulevard and Lyon Street), where Scottie strolls with Judy, a down-on-her-luck shopgirl who is a dead ringer for Madeleine and also is played by Kim Novak. Architect George Sellon, who designed the CaliforniaWestern Life Building at 926 J Street, is believed to havedesigned the 1933 remodel of the Ransohoffs Building. Alfred Hitchcock and James Stewart during the filming of "Vertigo" in 1958 at Mission Dolores, San Francisco. (P-627), Shop All Electronics Cameras, Photo & Video, Shop All Electronics Cell Phones & Accessories, Shop All Electronics Computers, Laptops & Parts, Shop All Electronics Tablets & Accessories, Shop All Electronics Video Games & Consoles, Shop All Electronics VR, AR & Accessories. "I asked my mother about the other Santa, at Macy's," he recalls. I also asked if anyone remembered the commercials from The White House on a group Growing Up in San Francisco. Show me where she is critiquing it, please, Ann. (Apollo 11 splashdown)Aug 15th, 1969? I was there, while in Cusk's book I was looking over her shoulder into a mirror.It's a long way around to thinking, after reading this excerpt, that I might see Didion is a different way, like I do Murakami. . Mission Dolores at 16th and Dolores Streets: Madeleine walks through the chapel of the mission into the cemetery to stare at Carlotta's grave. "I still have a picture of my brother and me sitting on Santa's lap at the Emporium about 50 years ago," Valente said. So for a few minutes, let's duck in for a visit to 1951. What an amazing slice of history I have found! Would love to visit next time I'm in the city. Part of Cinema Supper Club: From the Golden Gate to the Silver Screen, a series of films shot in or around San Francisco. View fullsize . The first two name-dropping passages recall the list of guests at Gatsby's parties, with the difference that these are real people caught up in something serious (Didion also luxuriates in high fashion labels and details the way that Gatsby and Daisy do in all his tailored shirts). The narrative. I just picked up a wardrobe steamer trunk at a garage sale that has a "The White House" label on it. They can be found on eBay occasionally. Its holdings span four thousand years and include European painting, sculpture, and. With her overwritten tone of ominous significance.I'm so glad to hear that I'm not just a bourgeois suburbanite. -- City of Paris, the department store founded in 1850, was at Geary and Stockton streets, now home to Neiman Marcus. Chronicle file photo by Bob Campbell, 1947, The Emporium's Santa Claus traditionally arrived by cable car. Back around that time in Wisconsin we were more concerned with Vince leaving (and soon after dying) and the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. With $25 given him by his uncle, Itsie Collins, the ever-natty Brown bought "a double-breasted, blue serge suit, light-blue shirt and a yellow tie. Some of the locations no longer exist, or are under new ownership, or are barely recognizable. No visible wear. I'd have to think about that for a bit. [1], Ransohoff's, which eventually closed in the mid-1970s, supplied a number of props for the studio-based interior scenes. Fast shipping and buyer protection. But when the two walked in, Gotti said, "Good evening, Mr. Stewart" instead. She left in 1951 after getting married. I, too live out of State. "The ultimate treat for me was a tuna sandwich and a chocolate soda at Townsend's," Valente recalls. Mission San Juan Bautista, 91 miles south of San Francisco, off Highway 101. Looking back, Laubscher is sure of his fondest memory of going downtown about 50 years ago. She lived most of her life in SF. As for Didion, I've not read enough of her to make a claim to loving or disliking her style, but there's this comment by Kai Akker, "The Didion excerpt only reminds me of her knack for manufacturing meaning where there wasn't any." I am a third generation San Franciscan and I definitely remember the White House. "Oh so, you went along on a murder party and you've turned state's evidence on the others and you bought the wrong dress to wear to testify and you want me to pick out at I. Magnin the right dress to wear in those circumstances. i have one of the mantle clocks that were on display in the store.it was made in france with the serial no.1439. I can tell you EXACTLY when the '70's ended: January 20, 1981It was a month earlier, December 8, 1980. Blanca (Morales Temich) Morales, MD. Empire Hotel: The hotel at 940 Sutter St. where Judy resides is still there, though it is now called the Hotel York. According the the Reel SF web site, Florists' Transworld Delivery (FTD) currently have a flower stall located in the same position on Post Street, outside the Zara clothing store. A writing teacher who shows up on her last day to take her place. His cult performed the most shocking murder spree of my lifetime. Kim Novak and Stewart in the film Vertigo, Vic and Roland Gotti at Ernie's Restaurant, which was also in "Vertigo. @gilbar, January 1969, Big Mike steps forward and is inducted into the US Army as an enlisted man. The paper on the back of the pic is so brittle that it is crumbling off. I have an antique hat box from Ransohoffs. The names of many of the downtown spots that Caen and others recommended in guidebooks of the '50s read like a list of the dear departed: -- The Ritz Old Poodle Dog at 65 Post St. was the oldest French restaurant in town. I love her writing. Ransohoff's, which eventually closed in the mid-1970s, supplied a number of props for the studio-based interior scenes. I was 18 in December 1969. Eve Babitz gets it too. especially in San Francisco, where someone might be familiar with the store, I could only suggest long hours searching through newspaper microfilm (where available) to see if an exhibit by this artist might have been held in the store's painting department. The movie multiplex was still years into the future, so single-screen movie houses - some of them palaces like the Fox or the RKO Golden Gate (which were owned by Hollywood studios to show their films in an arrangement later deemed illegal by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling) - were still going strong. Ransohoff's San Francisco Vintage timeless classic bag - Real crocodile, this bag is in excellent condition. !LOL- of course, we always HAD to be wearing WHITE GLOVES when going downtown SF then !!! They're about 2 feet in diameter, green marble faces, gold hands and frames. Fitzgerald, or at least his generation (Malcolm Cowley, among others), may have started the habit of thinking of decades as signifying something more consequential than the passage of ten years. I can find out about her, but not what her puppets looked like. I wasn't thinking while reading him, "Is it good?" 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