Tag: Gold Coast

January 24, 2013 /

CHICAGO DURING THE “MAD MEN” ERA

This goes out to my blogging friends in Chicago, where today and everyday this week it’s been below zero… Howell Conant for LIFE Magazine, November 11th, 1966

January 24, 2013 /

SECOND CITY

The building was designed by Louis Sullivan – Frank Lloyd Wright was one of his employees. Howard Conant for LIFE Magazine, November 11th, 1966 Alumni from this famous theater include Alan Arkin, Joan Rivers, Gilda Radner, Eugene Levy, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bonnie Hunt, Amy Poehler, Tina Fey…

January 24, 2013 /

CHICAGO – THE MOD

Chicago, the incubator of the modern skyscraper… I don’t know how to describe its style… Maybe cutting edge leavened by Midwestern practicality??? Howard Conant for LIFE Magazine, November 11th, 1966

July 26, 2012 /

ANITA LOOS – RICHARD NEUTRA

Anita Loos, looking scholarly, famous for writing the bestselling, “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”, notoriously lied about her age, stating she started writing for motion pictures at the age of twelve in 1912… Pictured below: Charlie Chaplin, Anita Loos, Paulette Goddard, and John Emerson. Loos and Emerson were married for seventeen years…

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