Beach Boys, play for President, Ronald Reagan's, 100 year,Birthday Concert at Reagan Library, 2011.
All American Band, The Beach Boy's will be going on their 50 year anniversary tour, this year.
Click on Video to see the Beach Boys in concert.
Beach Boys, Bruce Johnston - (Chuck Williams, aka, BB1) - Al Jardine and Mike Love, at the Reagan 100 year Birthday with Air Force One, in the background.
Tom Lyle Williams, owner and President of the Maybelline Company, from, 1915 - 1967.
Maybelline products, mounted on a card, and placed on display racks, for easy accessibility, was the brain child of Maybelline's marketing man, Rags Ragland, in 1935.
What we consider common merchandising today, actually began at the Maybelline Company, as a way to display their products and gain more attention.
Vintage Maybelline eye-shadow, placed on a card in 1935.
Today when we go to a store, all Brands are displayed this way, but 80 years ago, products were haphazardly thrown on a shelf, causing, great frustration, for the consumer and the sales team.
Carded merchandise extended the promotional impact of Maybelline, increased impulse buying, attracted customer's attention,organized products, enhanced shoppability and drove sales, to a higher bottom line.
By the 1950's and 60's, all beauty products were carded and set on free-standing, twirling racks, also the brainchild of Maybelline's Rag's Ragland.
By 1964, ULTRA LASH MASCARA, was born, taking the place of Maybelline's first wand mascara, MAGIC MASCARA. Some of you might remember buying a carded Maybelline ULTRA LASH, for 69 cents. Those were the day's..
Before ULTRA LASH, the little red box, with a black cake of Maybelline, or this Maybelline cream mascara, was the only choice available to ladies.
This is what a 1950's, make-up bag was filled with, when Maybelline was advertised television for the first time and no longer a little mail order business, advertised in the classifieds. Maybelline has remained a Giant in the cosmetic field, as well The King, of Advertising and Marketing. Thank you for following the Maybelline Blog, tell your friends and be sure to get your copy of The Maybelline Story, you will love it !!!!
In the 1920's Maybelline marketed to the trade, who purchased the product and sold it to the consumer, in drugstores.
At the same time, consumer advertising, brought customers, in the drug stores, where they purchased their (mascara) Maybelline. Marketing to the trade, Advertising to the consumer, that was the kick started Maybellines Brand into the global market over 100 years ago.
Lash-Brow-Ine, Maybelline and Liquid Maybelline, were sold in boxes of one dozen and placed next to the cash register where impulse buyers were willing to give it a try.
Today, Maybelline, is owned by L'Oreal of Paris and called Maybelline New York. The Maybelline Brand is still, the biggest make-up Brand in the World. It's roots, began with a $500. loan from Tom Lyle's brother, Noel James Williams, in 1915. Today, is a multi- billion dollar business.
Read all about it in, The Maybelline Story and the Spirited Family Dynasty Behind It and learn all about the man and the family behind the original Maybelline Brand.
Zaca Lake, in the 1970's, when it was owned by Bill Williams and Howard Olson.
This 10,000 year old green lake, filled with Catfish, relaxed the mind, into an almost trance like state. There was something so magical about it, that even the most type-A personality could let go and find peace.
Even my father, Bill Williams let down his guard and became an entirely different person while at Zaca Lake.
Though I'm sure she kicked and screamed about the bugs, the heat, no phone or TV, Jean Williams, (BB1's, mother,) slowed down enough to actually get on a horse and ride to the top of Zaca's mountain.
It must have been worth the pain and suffering of riding their horses. to the top of Zaca for this stunning view.
In the Summer we were able to jump in the lake and swim or take a paddle boat out with our friends. Here is my sister Billee tanning on the dock, with our family friend Gerry Marks.
In the Fall of 1975, Gene and I retreated to Zaca, to get away from his Law Practice and our crazy busy lives.
My close friend Asa and her husband Bruce Chandler, (from the LA Times family,) were brave enough to trust us and leave Newport beach, for a rustic weekend at Zaca Lake.
We told them it would be an hour up the mountain and an hour down. They said OK, but when we got lost and the sun was setting, it became survival of the fittest.
Six grueling hours later, we were not only grateful to make it back to the lodge, we had never been so relaxed in our lives.
Zaca Lake Lodge.
One of the rustic cabins.
Inside the Lodge.
Asa, reading, in her cabin.
Gene starting a fire in our cabin, with Bruce.
Gene and Bruce in the game room.
Asa and me in the game room.
Check out this video... Zaca Lake is still exactly the same way it was in the 1940's when the lodge and cabins were built. Time stands still at Zaca.
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Romantic, nostalgic and beautiful, Zaca Lake Retreat and Mineral Springs is a sanctuary, that melts away daily tension and creates a romantic environment, hard to find in the city.
The ancient, Chumash called this Heart shaped lake, Zaca Lake, or "quiet place."Zaca is one of the very few natural lakes in Southern California. The lake is replenished by underground springs. Geologists speculate that Zaca Lake was formed about 10,000 years ago by a landslide.The Chumash state that there is a rainbow bridge of light and energy arising in Ojai, California that flows into the depths of Zaca Lake. There is even a story that an underground tunnel exists deep within the earth that connects Zaca with Lake Titicaca in Peru.
Today Zaca Lake is run by a non-profit foundation, who's mission statement is to protect and preserve the Lake for the benefit of the public. Zaca Lake is an absolutely incredible little place out in the wild of Santa Barbara County. Technically, the address is on Foxen Canyon Road just before Zaca Mesa Winery, but after you gain access (only if they have given you the gate code) it's another five mile drive down a one lane paved road that crosses through ranch land and steep hills that crosses five creek beds of varying degree of water and difficulty eventually leading you to a beautiful little lake surrounded almost completely by mountains. The setting couldn't be more spectacular.
However, there was a time when my father and his partner, Howard Olson, owned, (if such a spiritual place could be owned,) Zaca Lake. Howard Olson, owned one of the largest landscaping companies in Southern California and because of his appreciation for the natural environment, bought Zaca Lake with my father, Bill Williams, in around 1973.
Here is a picture of Bill Williams, Zaca Lake's new owner, in a moment of quiet contemplation. Very rare, I can tell you.
Here is a picture of my father with his four kids. Me, Bill, Billee, Donna and Preston. It was like the song, "How are you gonna keep them down on the farm, once they've seen, Broadway."
When Gene Dorney and I first announced our engagement, my father sent us to Zaca Lake for the weekend, to seal the deal. When we arrived at the lodge, Howard Olson, delivered a bottle of wine, to our table as a congratulations from my father. He really loved Gene. Gene and I, fell so in love with Zaca, and it's peaceful, romantic environment, we wanted to live in one of the little cabin's and work there for a year. Gene was even willing to give up his Law Practice, and buy a ranch, in Santa Barbara, where he could grow and sell avocados. That never happened of course, though I wish it had!
My father and his third, wife Gloria Rosan, were able to relax and get away from the mad pace of their lives at Zaca Lake. There was so much drama in our lives in those day's, that escaping to a spiritual retreat, was a soul-saving experience, for all of us, to say the least.
My sister, Donna Williams, with her TR-6, at Zaca Lake, still looks like a Movie Star, even in the rustic, wilderness. .
My sister Billee, not the camping type in any way, checks herself out in the mirror, to make sure she had "the look," though surrounded by natural beauty. I guess we were so addicted to glamour, high stress and drama, it wasn't easy, melting into such peace and quiet.
Gloria, Bill and Billee parked outside one of the little cabins. Romance in the wilderness: to be continued tomorrow.
In January 1965, Edie was introduced to Andy Warhol, one of the new gods of Pop Art
Edie: American girl: When Edie was first published, it quickly became an international best-seller and then took its place among the classic books about the 1960s.
Edie Sedgwick had 7 brother's and sisters and not all of them wound up being mentally ill, drug addicts and alcoholics, like the press likes to make the Sedgwick family out to be. Edie's brother, Jonathan Sedgwick, (seen here with his wife Anne and their three children, Shane, Dustin and Hana-Lee, in 1985,) has remained one of the most brilliant, grounded, loving and encouraging husbands and fathers, I've ever known. Jonathan and Anne's children have grown up to be well balanced, college educated and successfulI in their own right, because their parents never pushed them to be anything other, than who they really are.
Johathan and his daughter Hana-Lee at the premier of Factory Girl in 2006. I'm proud to say that Hana-Lee Sedgwick is my goddaughter. Her mother, Anne and I go way back to when she was married to my cousin Chuck Williams, aka, BB1 in the early 1970's and I have remained close to her and Jonathan for over 30 years.
With all the hype out there about the Sedgwicks, I have to say, Jonathan is nothing like the way his sister Edie has been portrayed in her book and movie. His personal story, growing up on the ranch in Santa Barbara is so fascinating - I hope a publisher comes along and picks it up for what I'm sure would be a
best seller.
Pick up a copy of Edie at Amazonand order Factory Girl on Netflix today.
