{"product_id":"earl-carroll-hollywood-1940s","title":"Earl Carroll, Hollywood 1940s","description":"\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Earl Carroll Theatre opened on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California, on December 26 1938, and it was such a big event the news organization British\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ePathé covered the launch. ‘It’s a gilt-edged, diamond-studded night when impresario Earl Carroll opens his new nightclub,’ says the English presenter excitedly. He goes on to talk about Hollywood stars arriving in their ‘magnificent petrol chariots’ and how the lucky invitees were in for ‘a super supper club show with knobs on!’\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eYou can see a clip of this newscast on YouTube.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eCarroll was the owner of two theaters  and he employed the phrase;’ through these portals pass the most beautiful girls in the world’ over their respective entrances. The fabulously rich entrepreneur also once described himself as the guy ‘for whom the belles toil.’ A report in the Herald Examiner said the interiors were designed by Count Alexis de Sakhnoffsky and the building itself was designed in Streamline Moderne style by architect Gordon B. Kaufman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe entrance way was decorated with a 50ft swirl of warm -white neon tubing held aloft by a Goddess of Neon at the top of the stairs and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e1,200 three-foot-long pieces of warm-white neon tubing suspended from the ceiling and arranged in undulating waves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe theatre-restaurant seated 1,000 people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn 1953 its name was changed to the Moulin Rouge. Then it became the Aquarius Theatre in the 1960s and 70s and then the Nickelodeon on Sunset until 2017, when it closed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe artist who created this beautiful illustration\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eof a showgirl signed her name on the front of this 1940s menu cover. We believe she is Jean M Seymour. We are trying to find out more about her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCourtesy Eric Lynxwiler.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGallery quality Giclée print on natural white, matte, 100% cotton rag, acid and lignin free archival paper using Epson archival inks. Custom printed with border for matting and framing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003eEach order includes a print of the interior menu.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAll printed in USA.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Lynxwiler","offers":[{"title":"8.5x11\" Archival Print (Unframed) $25.00","offer_id":57492246429862,"sku":"nsn1790054183938","price":19.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11x14 Archival Print (Unframed) $30.00","offer_id":57492246462630,"sku":"jwl1790054183939","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"13x19 Archival Print (Unframed) $40.00","offer_id":57492246495398,"sku":"fiu1790054183940","price":24.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"16x20 Archival Print (Unframed) $55.00","offer_id":57492246528166,"sku":"rta1790054183941","price":34.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"20x24 Archival Print (Unframed) $85.00","offer_id":57492246560934,"sku":"aew1790054183942","price":59.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"24x36 Archival Print (Unframed) $135.00","offer_id":57492246593702,"sku":"duk1790054183943","price":99.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0745\/9133\/8662\/files\/earl-carroll-hollywood-1940s_1.webp?v=1790054187","url":"https:\/\/coffeetamper.shop\/products\/earl-carroll-hollywood-1940s","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}