Myron Hunt, one of the early influential architects of Southern California. Here he is standing outside the beautiful Pasadena Library: Here’s the library he designed: – He also designed the Ambassador Hotel…
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This is another “Model Mother” posing with her child at the Ambassador Hotel pool. Photograph by Ralph Morris: At noon finish chapter 3, Back to Black, of YOU DON’T OWN ME…
This is a “Model Mother” arriving at work for the Blue Book Modeling Agency at the Ambassador Hotel in 1945: Take a look at the hatbox the child is carrying. It says, Blue Book Models Hollywood…
In 1945 the Blue Book Modeling Agency was run by a woman named Emmeline Snively and located at the Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire Blvd. Marilyn Monroe was their most famous model.
Alla Nazimova was a silent screen star who lived large in Hollywood. One day in film class we were threading up the projector to screen Garbo’s CAMILLE – when what we saw was this: Fascinating screen vamp Nazimova beguiling Rudolph Valentino. When the roles dried up Nazimova turned her home,…
NEW YORK TIMES: October 28, 2012 New York Prepares for Storm’s Arrival By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ As the National Hurricane Center warned that Hurricane Sandy could bring “life-threatening” flooding along the Atlantic coast, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York said that subway, bus, and railroad service in New York would…