James B. Ransohoff, Jr. 93, passed away peacefully at his home in Atherton on March 19. The institution can answer questions about this item, assit you with obtaining a hi-res copy, and gather additional information you may have about it. 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. The Didion excerpt only reminds me of her knack for manufacturing meaning where there wasn't any. View our statement on digital primary resources. Kinda like today. Scottie continues dating Judy but he has a definite agenda in mind . I have a large steamer trunk on the side it says the white house,san francisco. And anyway2. Ransohoff's, which eventually closed in the mid-1970s, supplied a number of props for the studio-based interior scenes. "The '40s died 1/20/53The '50s ended 11/22/63.The '60s went into a coma 1/27/73 and were pronounced dead 8/9/74.The '70s ended with a whimper in 1983, when Lowenbrau produced the first commercial (starring Joe Mantegna) aimed at the new demo group dubbed Yuppies. Join over one million U.S. Physicians, Nurse Practitioners and PAs, already on Doximity. 1001 Potrero Ave # 6D San Francisco, CA 94110. There was no Interstate 280 from San Francisco to San Jose. -- Bernstein's Fish Grotto at 123 Powell St. featured a nautical decor, with ship's rails and bells, and pilot wheels. They are a treasure. Title [Two women at Ransohoff's] Date Created and/or Issued 1941 Aug. 17 Contributing Institution San Francisco Public Library Collection San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection On one TWH visit, I ran up the escalator the wrong way and received a gash on my leg above my foot which warranted stitches. To see where "Vertigo" and other movies filmed in San Francisco were shot, go to sfgate. Scottie continues dating Judy but he has a definite agenda in mind when they stop at one of San Francisco's many downtown flower stands he suddenly informs her he wants to buy her some clothes. she said." What an amazing slice of history I have found! 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. Gumps, Ransohoffs, City of Parissigh.Alexis at gotta-swing.com, My husbands grandmother worked at the White House in the Tea Room in the 1890's. Fort Point (under the southern approach to the Golden Gate Bridge, reached from the Presidio) The Presidio is no longer a military base, but Fort Point, where Scottie rescues Madeleine from a suicide attempt, still stands. Today, an apartment building occupies the site. The on-line museum of North America's independent department stores. And (implied) I'm not going to criticize your actions even years later. 1100 K Street, Suite 101,Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) : [Two women riding an escalator at the Emporium]. Chronicle file photo by Bob Campbell, 1947, The Emporium's Santa Claus traditionally arrived by cable car. My mother and aunt grew up in Berkeley, and this collection was in my grandmother's basement for many years until I finally inherited it at age 12. The 102 foot wide dome was lifted approx. Kai Akker @ 8:53: Very helpful comment. 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). I'd say the party was over when Manson's team did what they were born to do. We are so grateful to finally find some sort of connection & hope you will be able to tell us more about the artist; we have gleaned a little bit of information on the internet about him. Paul Ransohoff is located at the address 2116 Sutter St in San Francisco, California 94115. She works in San Francisco, CA and specializes in Obstetrics & Gynecology. Did Didion ever write about Polanski's trial or follow the girl who testified against him? I got a couple of them from the library, but have only read the first book in Rachel Cusk's "Outline," after finishing Murakami's "After Dark. I always thought Didion was overrated as a writer. I can not find any info. I have seen cookbooks from the 1930s that are named with certain department stores on the title page, e.g. However the TWH nurse gave my wound a butter-fly stitch. We live in a small town without access to any professionals. CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO BY GORDON PETERS/1959, Market Street in San Francisco about 50 years ago had a very different makeup than today -- with more locally-owned businesses, fewer chain stores, a row of department stores and single-screen movie houses. I was wondering why reading her felt like a duty. Now, I'm hoping that someone reading this will offer some light on this interesting piece. 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. "Vertigo" turns 50 this year but has hardly aged at all. Later, she, along with Linda Kasabian, was out of LA and all those weird situations and just doing New York by taking the Staten Island Ferry to see the Statue of Liberty.She quoted Bob Dylan "in the jingle-jangle morning" so I'll quote Bob Dylan: "All these people that you mention/Yes, I know them, theyre quite lame/I had to rearrange their faces/And give them all another name"It all seemed so important at the time, she's saying, all connected, or so it seemed, but it really never made sense, though there was at least the notion that something could be "authentically senseless.". : [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]. It all seemed incredibly refined, very old-ladyish. In 1933, the building was remodeled into the Bon March department store and Moderne design elements were added. Should anyone know where I can find a copy, please respond to paula@petalumamuseum.com. In 1933, thebuilding was remodeled into the Bon March departmentstore and Moderne design elements were added. Those had to be some amazing times in the Hollywood Hills area. Are you Dr. Ransohoff? You could get dried prunes with juice and toast and a glass of milk for something like 15 cents.". Note the Prairie style andModerne style influences such as wide overhanging eaves,zig-zag bands, and deco patterned accent panels, classic detailing of the era. do you have any idea what these clocks are valued at,if anything. So for a few minutes, let's duck in for a visit to 1951. Add to Favorites Vintage 1962 Frank Lloyd Wright First Edition Living Architecture Book by Doris Ransohoff . Is this information wrong? 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. I am looking for a 1932 edition of the San Francisco White House Department Store's 1932 newsletter. I know nothing of the world of American Girl Dolls and have no reason to believe that I will be in any way a more complete person if I were better informed about that world. 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 firmly guides her across the road to Ransohoffs, the swanky downtown ladies clothes store. I recall reading somewhere that the store's downfall was in not expanding to the suburbs along with their competition (The Emporium, Capwell's, Macy's). It is hard leather and in great condition. jane@innovationsthatwork.com. The paranoia was fulfilled. With her overwritten tone of ominous significance. (man walks on moon)July 24th, 1969? The downside of being an atheist is that I cannot comfort myself that Charles Manson, Sue Atkins, and now Linda Kasabian are not burning in some pit deep in Hell. 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. They can be found on eBay occasionally. "That's how they went down the tubes," says Johnson. Crab Louis was supposedly invented there. Who remembers Ransohoff's Department store? "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. As we moved on with our lives and the stores closed down and seemed forgotten, something happens to awaken our minds. In 2003, the apartments were renovated to accommodate office space. Any clues to how we can tell? jingle-jangle yep Charles Manson was a real Mr. Tambourine Mansheesh. The tension broke that day. Vintage timeless classic bag - Real crocodile, this bag is in excellent condition. I have a book about the SF Pan-Pacific Int'l Exhibition published by H.S.Crocker in 1915 which contains its original White House sticker. He had seen an old photo of the building with a tower and thought it looked better than way. She lived most of her life in SF. Bought one today, fully intact with all that it came with. [2] Google Maps Nearest Locations Grant Avenue, San Francisco, California Union Square, San Francisco, California Claude Lane, San Francisco, California (0.2 miles) Powell Street, San Francisco, California (0.2 miles) Along with her inveterate name-dropping -- even though here, the names are mostly worthwhile specifics to anchor and even accentuate the trivia of the events. Other types of shops, like the profusion of bookstores, hat shops and tobacconists that once filled downtown shops, have also all but disappeared. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water markthat place where the wave finally broke and rolled back. Hunter S. Thomson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 1971. Her name was Anna Poey (Pinana after marriage) and she was from France. I do recall the cool elevator with operator in uniform and gloves. . The end of the book reminds me of Fitzgerald's essay "My Lost City." Some of the locations no longer exist, or are under new ownership, or are barely recognizable. 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. Nearest Locations. A girl wants to look her best when explaining about going along with a group to to kill someone and not intervening." Great dress, great memory. desire to find meaning in the meaningless and unconnected events of all of our lives. They are knitted white and pink, and the inner tag says:100% New Wool Made in England for The White HouseRaphael Weill & CompanySan FranciscoThey came from my grandmother originally, probably purchased in the 1960's. This is a carousel. My Aunt worked there in the 50's, She worked in cosmetics. (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. Thank you, Professor. Purse comes with matching tortoise mirror. Anne Evers Hitz has followed up on her excellent book, In 1909, Rafael Weill & Company moved to a, The gleaming white facades of the 1909 building were, Like its competitor, The City of Paris, The White House, Housewares Home Appliances Unpainted Furniture. She always said it was a wonderful store. Most recently, the building was home to the Pyramid Brewery, from 2005 through June of 2013. Enjoyed reading everyone's posts :). Kim Novak and Stewart in the film Vertigo, Vic and Roland Gotti at Ernie's Restaurant, which was also in "Vertigo. Brown even remembers the salesman: "A guy named Marion Wilson waited on me, and he was a sharp dresser, fast talker, swinging guy," the mayor says, snapping his fingers. Note too that the one way traffic has been reversed. when they stop at one of San Francisco's many downtown flower stands he suddenly informs her he wants to buy her some clothes. thank you! After stopping at a flower stall, Scottie and Judy cross over the road and enter Ransohoff's Department Store at 259 Post Street, near to Union Square. 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. Florence Gould Theater at the Legion of Honor, Lincoln Park at 34th Avenue and Clement Street. She does so, behind the closed bathroom door, and again he waits, on tenterhooks. I donated mine to a collector. Charlie Manson and his followers were not messengers from the future. Ransohoff Paul In San Francisco, CA. In the ensuing decades, vast changes would sweep over downtown San Francisco. i have one of the mantle clocks that were on display in the store.it was made in france with the serial no.1439. LOCATIONS. 0 Review . -- 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. View fullsize . L Catterton and Alumni Ventures Group participated. While at Urban Ore in Berkeley, there was a wooden seesaw made of oak for sale that I eventually purchased. It was the coolest thing in the world.". . 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. Return address: John Watt c/o The White House, San Fransisco, California. Michelle S. Tong, Amy Ransohoff, Christy Boscardin> ;Teaching and Learning in Medicine. Without dismantling the frames, we have no idea whether these charcoal drawings are genuine originals or prints. The museum holds all sorts of information about classic department stores which either no longer exist, or are changed beyond recognition. I got a couple of answers, but there are no photos. Black masses were imagined, and bad trips blamed. This was purchased in San Francisco at the exclusive Ransohoffs. 1950's Mink Capelet Ransohoff's Department Store San Francisco Sz . There is a sticker on the back binding: The White House/San Francisco/Books. Even though it reads almost like parody, I think you are being too generous to her. Chronicle columnist Herb Caen asked in his 1950s guidebook to San Francisco. I was repulsed and a little frightened by him, but, as it turns out, he wasn't much. Learn More. They hang in my office now. I have tried researching it on the internet with no information available. 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." Dec 31st, 1969.Even in season 10 the Simpsons could still land a few. I have a vintage Yale and towns steamer chest that has an engraved plate on top titled the White House San Francisco. These early reports were garbled and contradictory. jingle-jangle morning. Gorgeous, deep brown color w/brass hardware. I had never had a suit in my life. sticker on the back. OtherMD San Francisco, CA. I can find out about her, but not what her puppets looked like. Television was just starting to hammer the movies. 'Mini but not extremely mini. Chocolate brown mink capelet from San Franciscos Ransohoffs department store. Macy's, interlopers from New York, had already bought O'Connor and Moffat and taken over that old-time department store at Union Square. The shop space is empty now, the windows papered with "For Lease" signs. California Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park (entrance at 34th Avenue and Clement Street): Kim Novak as Madeleine - a wealthy San Francisco socialite with an identity crisis - visits the art museum where a portrait of her great-grandmother, Carlotta Valdes, hangs in Gallery 6 alongside medieval tapestries and 17th century French and Italian paintings. All copies of her work was lost in a fire. It got tiresome, to this reader. I was grooving on the voice and the world, and maybe I'll do the same for Joan. Leave a review . Dinner is optional. My wife rejected it because it was very out-of-date in terms of the actual recipes.-Bruce. 60 feet which allowed the building underneath to be gutted and the interior rebuilt in the 1990s. When an attractive blonde in a fur coat gets into a limo in front of the building, it's easy to imagine that Novak still lives there. . That period- the 60s seemed surreal all throughout. I still have my Happy Holly. The museum, designed by George Applegarth, opened in 1924 on a bluff in Lincoln Park overlooking the Golden Gate. "She says "Everything was to teach us something," lists a bunch of things, then says "I believe this to be an authentically senseless chain of correspondences" *senseless* but at the time "in the jingle-jangle morning of that summer" (the crazy summer of '69) "it made as much sense as anything else did." Ransohoff's San Francisco. Emerald green or gold. and Now, CitySleuth explained in an earlier post how director Hitchcock shot the hotel room scenes on a studio soundstage, basingits layout on the Empire's room 401except that he reversed the layout. Each has The White House Picture Dept. Hitchcock reproduced the restaurant's exterior and upstairs room, borrowing its dishes, paintings and antiques. I wonder if it was one of those. Like the country had come unmoored and no one was really sure what direction it was headed. Does anyone remember them? (Altamont killing)Dec 18th, 1972? One of the Manson girls had an appendectomy at County Hospital which, thankfully, did not involve me. I wore that suit for five years.". Good Luck in your search.-Bruce, Thank you so much for doing this! By then I'd been Didioned out, though I still bring Slouching or White to doctor's appointments and turn to any page while waiting.
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