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Post by dreamer on Mar 20, 2008 1:40:57 GMT -5
Hi Jim, have enjoyed reading your post. Glad that Kate's things found yet another loving home. Would really enjoy to see the photos you took. Using Photobucket is a good start  - the easiest way to post images ;D Giving your username is not enough (photobucket use different id's infront of the username such as k150/ or u124/ etc) - if you want to share the photos with us - you have to paste in the entire link from the internet adress. BUT before you do - I suggest that you set your account as PRIVATE - other wise everyone can snop around. Should you perfer to post the images this is how to post photos as thumbnails:First you select the image(s) you want to post then you click the button Generate HTML and IMAGE code [click image to view]  The site will generate the codes for you and you can now select IMG click able thumbnail images for message boards [click image to view]  You can also view the codes how these photos were posted by clicking quote (on the right to this post)        PS these are up for auction on eBay pt ;D |
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Post by turtlebay on Mar 20, 2008 9:07:14 GMT -5
 Hope this works. It's early here so alittle foggy. Judy what I meant to say was you have the Hollywood painting and mantle and I've got the New York painting and mantlle (copy). Which leads to the question, I wonder what happened to the mantles at 244. I remember walking by as they were doing a gutting. I hope they left them in though I noticed the 244 plaque was gone. Probably thrown away. There were buckets of brick and the stucco outside and I couldn't help but pick a piece up and quickly put it in my jacket and keep walking (don't know why I was paranoid but can't believe someone was taking her trash bags for years). Anyway got a pretty heavy jacket with brick bits and stucco and went to get a haircut on 51st street I think. They asked to have my coat to hang and I remember fighting with them to keep it. It weighed about ten pounds. Thanks dreamer. I'll keep trying. Jim |
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Post by Judy on Mar 21, 2008 21:02:46 GMT -5
Judy, Posting pics is beyond my newbie capabilities, for now, so I put them on photobucket as user: tinman_2008. I so relate to your tale of the fireplace. I never put the connection between the Kate St. Ives mantel and the one at the auction. I remeber seeing a blue one and also reading somewhere that Kate thought a fireplace mantel was the soul of a room. It didn't even have to work. That it was in both her bedroom and St. Ives makes it truly special. Also the painting you have I believe is of Eucalyptus trees. Very few trees out here in LA are high trunked and craggy like that except the Eucalyptus. It was on my list while at Sotheby's. I drive through the freeway pass from Burbank to Hollywood everyday and I see these Eucaluptus along the Hollywood freeway and always think of that painting. It's funny that you have her Hollywood fireplace and painting and I have what I'd like to think is a Central Park painting (#576 the third of the three. #1 is on the mantle which looks like the farm I grew up on). In the Cavett interview Kate elaborates on furniture and her passion for good furniture and that she had much of it. Of course Sotheby's was evidence of that. I get the feeling that her's was always well worn and well used. I image, with your mantle, she would have wiped off the wax herself (after it being on there for years) and telling Norah or whomever, who let this go? I also think she would have commanded the guys, after seeing the predicament, to take it apart, get it up pronto and put it back together. I think you did the right thing. I think she ensured the things she thought should be in museum's or library will be and the things she wanted to have a part in a new story would do so. That's where you and me and all the other folk at Sotheby's came in. I also remember the woman next to me so pleased, after missing out time and time again, getting a small table, and everyone around her so pleased for her, as if she got the Holy Grail. And how they treated me when I got the garden table. The marble garden table from 244 freaks me out when I have people, kids or workers over. I'm always yelling that table cost $5k. Don't get near it! I thought I saw it in the Bryson book page 154. Then it was confirmed in the Clive James interview when she shows him about the Turtle Bay garden (love it when she picks the chair up over her head when they head in for the interview). Well I'm glad I've got a kindred soul. Along with Martha and the others. Just like we've enjoyed her art and life, we get to enjoy her spirit and soul. Jim Hi Jim, I couldn't figure out how to look at what you have in photobucket cause you need a password, which I don't expect you to give me...I'm just sayin'. But maybe I'm doing it wrong; I'm pretty much of a novice where this is concerned. Thanks for the encouraging words about the candle wax....Still have pangs about that, though. The "St. Ives" mantel is the one she writes about in ME - in the "Leaving the California House" chapter. I did not go in thinking I was going to bid on it. I went in with a budget (ha!) and a prayer that I'd get one of her paintings. Well, actually, I was prepared to spend it all on the Spencer head. And when the bidding paused for a bit at what would have been an affordable price for me, I almost died cause I had just spent most of my $$ on the painting. I thought 'if this ends now, I'll shoot myself.' But then, of course, it shot up into the stratosphere in that sort of ping-pong bidding war from one side of the phone tables to the other. The painting I got was one of the five or six I wanted most (well, one of those was a drawing), and I'd never even laid eyes on it till the week of the viewing. But I just sort of fell in love with it. I bid on may other lots, but always stopped when I felt it was starting to eat into my "painting budget." Otherwise I would have won the Robert McKnight marble sculpture, which I thought was just stunning in person. Anyway, I, too, had people applauding me when I finally won the painting. Cause, I gotta tell ya, my paddle was up plenty of times and I either lost the item because it went too high, or I stopped bidding so as to have some dough for the painting. After I won it I was thrilled and since I got it for a bit less than my budgeted expense, I continued to bid on things till they went above my means. When they brought up the mantel - which was almost at the end of the second day - I had been looking down perusing the catalog, when suddenly I realized it was up on the block. And, curiously, there was a lull right then and the only other person bidding, I think, was someone on the internet. The bid was relatively low - like in the thousand dollar range, so my ears perked up. I put in one bid, got outbid by the cyberspace bidder and then put in another. And I won it. Of course, then, I had to figure out where on earth I would place a 9 ft. mantel in my NYC apartment. But things have a way of working out, don't they? The painting hangs over it. I always thought - and still do - that the trees are Sycamore trees, Jim. The Hollywood Hills are full of them, too...I wouldn't describe them as craggy. I see them as sort of thin and elegant. Like guess who? One of them even looks like her. Anyone know that photo on the set of Summertime where she'd sitting in a chair and the hair dresser is doing her hair and it's all pulled up and askew? That's what one of the trees reminds me of. Anyway, I love the color and the composition. The Central Park painting that you have is another I was dying to have, but again, I picked my battles, so to speak and waited for the Calif. Hills one. I'm so glad that someone else who loves her has it. What you say about you - a West coaster - owning the NYC painting and me - an East coaster - owning the California one reminds me of the letter of condolence that Kate wrote to Mildred Knopf after her husband Edwin died. He was buried on the East coast and Mildred then lived on the West. So she wrote something like "you're with Spencer and I'm with Eddie." Kinda like that :) Judy |
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Post by courtneymarie on Sept 12, 2009 20:27:03 GMT -5
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Post by charliesgirl7681 on Jan 8, 2010 20:18:02 GMT -5
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Post by gottamatch on Jan 9, 2010 6:19:52 GMT -5
Whoa, that's pretty cool. Well the box is cool! I love eBay lol this is a great thread  Jess |
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Post by charliesgirl7681 on Jan 12, 2010 21:32:18 GMT -5
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Post by babytheleopard on Jan 13, 2010 0:02:54 GMT -5
That's really creepy!!!! I love how they needed to show it naked too lol.... The eyes are like glazed over, and her eyebrows make her face look like she's in distress or something. I wonder how old it is, and who made it. So weird!!! |
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Post by charliesgirl7681 on May 21, 2010 21:10:44 GMT -5
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Post by gottamatch on May 22, 2010 23:12:26 GMT -5
If that was an Australian item, I'd bid on it. Why not lol
Jess
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Post by courtneymarie on Jun 5, 2010 20:48:14 GMT -5
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Post by Judy on Jun 5, 2010 22:56:18 GMT -5
That was her standard pose on the set when a studio photog was around - grab a phone and make like you're talking. There are plenty of those on different sets. Funny. As for the passport - it's real. Was one of the many auctioned at the Sotheby's estate auction. |
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Post by HollywoodHepcat on Jun 6, 2010 0:29:53 GMT -5
Yeah, I have that photo but in a smaller size. Neat to see it so clear and BIG!
I don't think it was just a funny Kate quirk, though. I've seen dozens of pictures of Norma and Joan and the other Joan et al doing the exact same thing. Perhaps it was a Metro inside-joke... HIGH SCHOOL.
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Post by farewellamanda on Jun 6, 2010 7:14:39 GMT -5
We should make a collage of Metro gals on the phone. Or a slideshow. With Telephone in the background. Because, like Judy said, I can think of a sprillion pix of Kate doing just this. I also can come up with at least 4 or 5 of Jeanette doing this---without even thinking hard.
I think you're right, buddy. Metro in-joke.
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Post by Judy on Jun 6, 2010 10:58:44 GMT -5
We should make a collage of Metro gals on the phone. Or a slideshow. With Telephone in the background. Because, like Judy said, I can think of a sprillion pix of Kate doing just this. I also can come up with at least 4 or 5 of Jeanette doing this---without even thinking hard. I think you're right, buddy. Metro in-joke. Yeah, you're right. More a Metro thing than a Kate thing. I just like to give her credit for everything. Youse gotta problem wit dat? ;D |
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