More vintage Maybelline Christmas pictures.

            Christmas past continued!!!

Christmas 1965, Evelyn Williams, Nana, my dad, Bill, me, and Unk Ile,
 (TL Williams.)



Unk Ile and Nana, 1966.

Sharrie, Bill, Unk Ile, Billee, my mother, Pauline, Donna and Nana, Christmas, 1967.

Bill, Vince Aiken, Charlie Lewis as Santa, my mother, Pauline and Billee, 1967.

Debby Angel, Preston as Santa, and Billee, 1968.

 Christmas, 1969, Lido Isle, Newport Beach, California.

Nana at my dad's home in Palm Springs, California, 1973.

My Baby Georgia, with Santa, 1978.

Stay tuned tomorrow for some vintage Christmas pictures, from my Cousin, Chuck Williams, aka, Beach Boy 1, family album.

Chuck and I will be going to the Barrett Jackson Classic Car Auction, between Jan 15 - 22.  We will also be bringing you pictures and video's, of Tom Lyle's, 1940 Packard convertible, which has been located after 60 years, in Orange County California.  Needless to say, we are over-the-top, excited to see the car and know you will be too!!!

Maybelline - Father of the Bride - 1973.

How long after her wedding day is a woman considered a Bride?  I believe it is one year and boy did I love every minute of it. Seriously!!

Here I am with Gene and my best friend from High School, Pearl White,
Christmas 1973, eight months into my Bride year.

My first year as a bride was the happiest year of my marriage and I took full advantage of all the attention showered on me that year.  My dad and Nana really got into it as well - loving being father and grandmother of the Bride - they kept our calender crazy with parties and we were expected to look fabulous, gushing and blushing as Mr. and Mrs. Beautiful.

My dad the artist, Christmas 1973, creating a scene to make us laugh.  Here he is pretending to be a famous artist, dressed in a smoking jacket, painters paints, and painting with a real paint brush.  The whole family, including Tom Lyle loved to create funny little scenes, then laugh until tears came to their eyes.  

 1973, Christmas in Palm Springs.  Nana had a

 special gift for my dad and wanted us all there to see

 the expression on his face when he opened it.                   

  A painting of Father of the Bride,with his daughter,

 the Bride.  It actually looked more like a Bride and Groom, everyone said and I don't think my stepmother appreciated it, because soon after that, she and my dad divorced.                                                                     

 Nana and my dad admiring the new focal point of the living room.  My dad loved that picture and kept it hung in a prominent position at the top of the stairs right outside his bedroom and office in the new home he was remodeling down the street.  It would take two years to finish the project, but on Christmas 1975 were once again invited to see the Father of the Bride painting hung in it's new resting place where it hung until 2004.


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Before Maybelline New York the brand was known as Maybelline.

Before Maybelline New York, there was the Maybelline Company.  Before the Maybelline Company, there was Maybell Laboratories.  Before Great Lash Mascara, there was Ultra Lash.  Before Maybelline there was Lash-Brow-Ine.  But no matter what - It all started with Tom Lyle Williams.

Tom Lyle Williams with his nephew Bill Williams, (my dad,)  discussing the good old day's when Maybelline was Maybell Laboratories and Lash-Brow-Ine sold for 50 cents in 1915.  This picture was taken in 1972, five years after Tom Lyle sold the Maybelline Company to Plough Inc.  He was never the same and regretted not preparing the next generation to take over the company.  For the next four years his health declined to the point, he refused to be seen any longer.

Lash-Brow-Ine ad, 1915.

Standing in front of his new Paige automobile, is Tom Lyle, his father TJ and Mable, namesake for the Maybelline Company, 1916.



An original Maybelline tin, that would be filled with a cake of mascara, a little red and black brush and mirror, in the 1940's.


Be sure to read the Maybelline Story for all the wonderful historic details and stunning nostalgic vintage memories.



WHAT HAPPENED TO Tom Lyle Williams, sister in law, Evelyn Williams.

Nana on her 70th Birthday, in 1971, a power to be reckoned with!!

Still beautiful, commanding and rich at 70, her life is about to take a course that leads to a lethal dose of vanity.  You must read the Maybelline Story to find out what happend to Nana.  From this point on I can't reveal the ending of the book, but I can tell you one thing.  She didn't deserve it!!!

Maybelline money, a blessing and a curse for my family.

While most of the Maybelline families were adjusting to their new lifestyles, mine was falling apart in 1970

My grandmother, (Nana,) and my mother Pauline at my parents 25th wedding anniversary, mock wedding in 1970.  My parents filed for divorce shortly after.

My father, (Bill Williams,) meets Linda Cattanio,
 12 years his junior and marries her.

Like our family, crushed after the money came, my father's GT 500 Shelby Mustang was rolled by a parking attendant at his cousin Noel's Christmas party that year, symbolizing the end of an era for our family.

Bill turns to his cousin Noel, asking "What now Cuz?" As always Noel stands by Bill through thick and thin, proving blood is thicker than water when the chips are down.

The whole story unfolds in The Maybelline Story, get your signed copy today at www.maybellinebook.com

Tom Lyle Williams watches his family spend, spend, spend!

So what did Tom Lyle think of the way his family spent the money he gave them? 

Here he is in Montecito, California, visiting his nephew, Noel A. and Jean Williams at the Maybeck estate in 1970.  It must have been bitter sweet for him seeing his niece's and nephew's expand so quickly, after he himself  lived modestly, to preserve a fortune he hoped would last for many generations.

 

Stay tuned this week as the 1970's unfold, and decide for yourself if Tom Lyle was pleased or disappointed the       way things went, as he,the Godfather of the family, watched things unfold from his estate in Bel Air. 

Want to know what really happened?   You will be             stunned!!  Get your singed copy of The Maybelline Story  today at www.maybellinestory.com.

 Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy ride!!!!!  

Maybelline Money, Property and Prestige in the 1970's.

The 1970's exploded with a spending frenzy for property and prestige after the sale of the Maybelline Company.

My cousins, Nancy and Chuck Williams with my sister, Donna, at our new home on Lido Isle, Newport Beach in 1971.  My father, Bill bought the property for $185,000 in 1968 and built two homes on it.  He sold one for $195,000 in 1970 and the other for $250 in 1973 when he moved to Palm Springs California.

Chuck Williams and his dog, at his parents new estate in Montecito, California in 1969. The home was designed by Bernard Maybeck, a famous architect who built the home  in 1915, for the Ambassador to England.  Noel and Jean Williams bought the home for $185,000 in 1969 and today it is valued at over 15 million.  Noel sold it in 1976 for a half a million dollars. 

Eva and Ches' daughter Marilyn, (Williams-Haines) and her husband John Gary, moved to Virginia and bought this home built in the 1800's for $185,000 and created a storybook wonderland for their 6 children, in the 1970's. The home is still in the family today, but is now for sale because of Marilyn's declining heath, in her 80's.    

Noel Williams in his brother Dick's Excalabur, at Dick and Ann's estate in Boca Raton Florida where they like Bill also bought a yacht to go along with their new lifestyle. 

Read more about the sale of the Maybelline Company and the aftermath in my family that will leave you stunned, in The Maybelline Story and the Spirited Family Dynasty Behind It.  Buy a signed copy from me, at http://www.maybellinestory.com/.  Thank you for following my blog, a stunning, historical piece of the

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