Found on EBay – Bullock’s Wilshire

This Givenchy Nouvelle Boutique jumper from Bullock’s Wilshire (later Bullocks Wilshire) has been listed on EBay. Items from the store, which opened in 1929 and closed in 1993, turn up somewhat often on EBay, but I can’t say I’ve ever seen one of these. Nor do I have a label like this in the Daily Mirror’s small image collection. Bidding starts at $24.99.

Found on EBay – Bullock's

This postcard, top, of the gown room at Bullock’s, postmarked 1916, has been listed on EBay. Above, here’s some wonderful artwork from a Bullock’s ad showing what the fashionable woman was wearing in 1916. Bidding starts at $4.95.

Found on EBay – Oviatt’s

This unusual – and maybe a bit odd – suitcase from Oviatt & Alexander has been listed on EBay. It’s an alligator suitcase with what appear to be little pouches for jewelry on the lid.  Although Oviatt’s has been gone for years, it was considered the leading Los Angeles menswear store and items are highly collectible.  As with anything on EBay, an item and vendor should be investigated thoroughly before submitting a bid. Bidding on this suitcase starts at $125.

Straw Hat Day in Los Angeles

May 1, 1931: Cartoonist Edmund Waller “Ted” Gale reminds Times readers of the arrival of Straw Hat Day, when men threw out their old felt hats and bought a new sailor. Straw Hat season began in Los Angeles on May 13 and ended in September.

Found on EBay -- Bullock's Wilshire

This pair of shoes from the Collegienne department of Bullock’s Wilshire has been listed on EBay. Bidding starts at $9.99.

Jim Murray, April 17, 1961

April 17, 1961: Jim Murray pulls together a column of various items, including this line about Vin Scully, who is “the only redheaded broadcaster I know who makes a ball game sound like a ball game and not the end of the world.”

Matt Weinstock, April 11, 1961

Men are from math class,  women are from Planet Prom, evidently.

April 11, 1961: What's with the high handlebars set? Well, an elderly gent in Bermuda shorts was reaching for the sky, as seems to be fashionable, while riding his bike on San Vicente Boulevard Sunday. Motorists were laughing madly, Matt Weinstock says.   DEAR ABBY: When a man and his wife are on a motor trip together, who should ask the man at the service station for the key to the ladies' room?

Found on EBay -- Bullock's Wilshire

This sun dress from the Collegienne department at Bullock’s Wilshire has been listed on EBay. Bidding starts at $8, but there is a reserve.

Found on EBay -- Bullock's Collegienne

This top from the Collegienne department at Bullock’s Westwood has been listed on EBay. Although Bullocks and Collegienne items are somewhat common on EBay, I don’t recall ever seeing anything from the Westwood store. Bidding starts at $14.99.

Found on EBay -- Bullocks Collegienne

This sweater from the Collegienne department at Bullocks Pasadena has been listed on EBay. Bidding starts at $39.95.

Ex-Columbia Student Blames Drugs for Shooting at Actress

March 23, 1901: The Times has grown to an 18-page paper. One front-page story reports a shooting in the Rathskeller of the Pabst Hotel (d. 1902) at 42nd Street and Broadway in New York, where former Columbia student Robert H. Moulton fired five shots into a party of actors and friends in a booth, slightly injuring a theater manager. Police originally assumed that Moulton was obsessed with  actress May Buckley, who was appearing in “The Price of Peace,” but investigators determined that Moulton had taken so much morphine that he had no idea what he was doing.

Found on EBay -- Myer Siegel

Items from Myer Siegel don’t show up terribly often on EBay, so this nightgown is fairly unusual. It's unclear from The Times' clips exactly what became of Myer Siegel, but it disappears from the pages in the early 1950s. Bidding starts at $10.50. ALSO Myer Siegel on the Daily Mirror