Question: “What happened on April 30, 1877 in San Francisco, California at 922 O’Farrell Street?”
Answer: “Alice Babette Toklas was born.”
One thing I have enjoyed in this blog is adding photographs of GertrudeandAlice into my posts. Many of them are familiar to GertrudeandAlice fans and are widely featured in books and articles. These are the ones that show up in most Google Image searches or on Pinterest. When I come across unfamiliar photographs of them, it’s as if I’ve discovered an old, dusty, leather bound family photo album in the attic.
Today, on Alice’s 143rd birthday, I’ve compiled an album of pictures of Alice that are less well known. They are taken from a book by L. Arnold Weissberger (1907-1981), FAMOUS FACES: A PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUM OF PERSONAL REMINISCENCES (Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New York , 1973.) The 443 page coffee-table book contains 1477 photographs, almost half of them in color, taken of celebrities at parties and various events between 1946 and 1971. The book ends with a biographical index which does go from “A” to “Z.”
l to rt 2nd row: Marlene Dietrich, Margaret Rutherford, Rock Hudson
l to rt 3rd row: Delores del Rio, Leonard Bernstein, Beatrice Lillie
