La Esperanza Panaderia Mexicana
Coming Together in La Plaza. Ezequiel Moreno, a native of Zacatecas, Mexico, started a bakery in his home in 1918, and in the 1920s moved to La Plaza in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. He named the bakery La Esperanza, meaning hope. Soon it was frequented by customers across many segments of the Los Angeles community.
Coming Together in La Plaza. Ezequiel Moreno, a native of Zacatecas, Mexico, started a bakery in his home in 1918, and in the 1920s moved to La Plaza in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. He named the bakery La Esperanza, meaning hope. Soon it was frequented by customers across many segments of the Los Angeles community.
Vernon Kilns "Casa California Hermosa" by Gale Turnbull
Gale Turnbull studied in Paris under Guerin, Preissig, and Lasar. Leaving France, he arrived in Los Angeles about 1936 and began work as Art Director at Vernon Kilns.
“Organdie” was designed by artist Turnbull. It was the first plaid pattern produced by Vernonware, and the other plaids - Tam O'Shanter and Gingham were inspired by this original design. The Organdie pattern was produced between 1937 and 1958. A quote from a vintage advertisement enthusiastically called the Tam O’Shanter design “fresh as Highland Heather …and warm as a Scottish brogue!” Casa California Hermosa pattern, designed by Gale Turnbull (hence the "T" in the pattern number), is hand painted and very scarce. The pattern is called T-631 and it's one of a collection of hand-painted floral patterns in a collection Gale Turnbulll called "Casa California Hermosa". |
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The Hawaiian Garden
Aloha ! Welcome to the Hawaiian Garden. During the late 1930's & well into the 1940's America had a fascination with tropical design & décor. During World War II, U.S. military families were stationed at Pearl Harbor. They bought Hawaiian furniture & fixtures, as it was too expensive to ship traditional heavy wooden furniture to Hawaii. Don Blanding was hired in 1936 by California-based Vernon Kilns to design Hawaiian styled patterns for a line of dinnerware to compliment the tropical furniture.
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gr8am pottery presents Winchester 73 & Frontier Days as our feature pattern for February 2016. Designed to be marketed in conjunction with the new movie "Winchester 73" starring James Stewart and Shelly Winters. This pattern was introduced in 1950 to tie-in Vernon Kilns dinnerware to the movie. The pattern was also coordinated with Heisey glassware with similar design and name.
Due to a change in the movie's premier date, the promotion did not work. Neither Heisey nor Vernon Kilns could develop the wares and advertising quickly enough to meet the new date. It is now a very rare pattern. Vernon Kilns would later market the western themed dinnerware as "Frontier Days". |
![]() Winchester '73 is a 1950 American Western film directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, and Stephen McNally. Written by Borden Chase and Robert L. Richards, the film is about the journey of a prized rifle from one ill-fated owner to another and a cowboy's search for a murderous fugitive. The movie features early film performances by Rock Hudson as an American Indian, Tony Curtis, and James Best. The film received a Writers Guild of America Award nomination for Best Written American Western. It was filmed in black and white. In 2015, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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