Great find, ER. Glo-Dial made clocks for Gruen, whose neon clocks we've been seeing around town on NLA for years. Not sure if these particular Gruens were made by Glo-Dial, but here's a post from 2011:
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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire
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Seems that Gruen figured nightclubs were a good place to advertise... perhaps an admirer
gave Beth Short a Gruen after a little dancing here...
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or after a little music here.... Not that the Bowl was a nightclub exactly.... |
As for 2301 Scarff Street, I have in some notes that railroad passenger agent Frederick W. Thompson built it in 1894 and that the Randolph Huntington Miners occupied it from 1896 to 1904, when they built
649 West Adams...perhaps better known as Fatty Arbuckle's house. The Miners sold 2301 to the widow of banker Frank A. Gibson in 1903. Mary Gibson became a commissioner of the State Commission of Immigration and Housing and was active on behalf of numerous causes.... Circa 1923 she turned 2301 Scarff into a duplex, she now at 2305 Scarff with 2301 rented to various boarders. After a nervous breakdown and a stroke, she died in the house in 1930. (Her son was at the time US ambassador to Belgium.) The house was later cut up into more rooms for rent....
PS-- Here is a post of yours from 2013 re 2301 Scarff...
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=12586