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a page from Phil Elverum's page-a-day calendar, Fancy People Adventures. Other good items can be found at pwelverumandsun.com
a page from Phil Elverum's page-a-day calendar, Fancy People Adventures. Other good items can be found at pwelverumandsun.com
Title: Fancy Fans: The Art of Collectibles
Author: Pascal Payen-Appenzeller
Publication: L'Aventurine, Paris
Publication Date: 2001
Book Description: White paperback. 93 pages with color plate images
Call Number: NK 4870 .P38
Chase and I make lunches for each other, he's better at it than I am. Clearly. Because look at what he's drawn me over the time we've been doing this.
These bags so totally make my day better to see when I go to get them out of the fridge at work.
I don't know anything really about that fancy old being being used by Public Storage, except that it is located at 3636 Beverly Blvd.
Curbed claims that it was some sort of office for Pac Bell in the 1970s and a speakeasy in the 1920s:
la.curbed.com/archives/2006/05/rumblings_bumbl_29.php
Here are some mysterious pictures of the inside:
www.blaska.com/Client_Access/Public Storage/3636 Beverly Blvd/3636_Beverly_Blvd.htm
Update 2012. Just found out that the architect was Arthur E. Harvey.
The building is generally called the American Storage Company Building.
Built ca. 1927–29.
skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=42752
www.you-are-here.com/building/american_storage.html
books.google.com/books?id=WWl29hn0C9gC&lpg=PA226&...
www.emporis.com/building/americanstoragecompanybuilding-l...
books.google.com/books?id=5HUxBLkEOfgC&lpg=PA27&o...
Further update. Apparently the club was called the 41 Club and was active in 1932, managed by George Distel:
gogonotes.blogspot.com/2008/11/1945-1955-kings-restaurant...
What else is a guy supposed to do on a snowy weekend besides try out some new lighting equipment and getting some new "fancy selfies."