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Title
Fashion center opens
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued
1954
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Original photograph has several small stains.
Photograph caption dated December 8, 1954 reads "The Chatterbox, new girls' fashion center at 15720 Vanowen (near Haskell) opened its doors for business this week with film star Bob Wagner on hand to help welcome the enthusiastic teenagers. Maureen Terrell and Carol Strawn, daughters of the shop's owners, pitched in to help with the opening. Here Carol, left, writes up a dress sale on Wagner's shoulder as he uses Maureen to sign an autograph." The shop is in Lake Balboa.
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00141053
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d049_f13_i15
CARL0005718775
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/69948
Subject
Wagner, Robert,--1930-
Men--California--Los Angeles
Teenagers--California--Los Angeles
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Television actors and actresses--United States
Autographing--California--Los Angeles
Stores & shops--California--Lake Balboa (Los Angeles)
Lake Balboa (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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