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Alfred Samuel Bloomingdale (April 15, 1916–August 23, 1982) was an heir to the Bloomingdale's department store fortune, and the celebrated lover of a murdered Hollywood model. April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). ...
1916 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ...
August 23 is the 235th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (236th in leap years), with 130 days remaining. ...
1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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For other uses, see Hollywood (disambiguation) Greetings from Hollywood Hollywood is a district of the City of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., that runs from about Vermont Avenue on the east to just beyond Laurel Canyon Boulevard above Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards on the west; the north to...
Born into great wealth in New York City, the grandson of the founder of the famous department store, as a young man he had a keen interest in theater and between 1941 and 1945 was involved in the direction and/or production of several Broadway shows. To facilitate the need of his wealthy friends who liked to patron New York city's upscale restaurants following a night at the theater, Bloomingdale launched a credit card business called "Dine & Sign" that meant people on a night out no longer needed to carry large sums of cash. In 1951, he merged his company with Diners Club and joined the rapidly growing business as an executive, becoming chairman of the board of directors in 1964. In 1970, he left Diners Club, acquiring its "International Floatels" division. This article is about the street in New York City. ...
Diners Club International, originally founded as Diners Club, was formed in 1950 by Frank X. McNamara, Ralph Schneider and Alfred Bloomingdale. ...
Along with his wife Betsy Bloomingdale, Alfred Bloomingdale became a friend and confidante of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Following his election to the U.S. presidency, in 1981 Reagan appointed Bloomingdale to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and the following year named him a member of the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. Betsy Bloomingdale (1922- ) is an internationally known socialite and hostess, and the author of three cookbooks. ...
Order: 40th President Vice President: George H.W. Bush Term of office: 21 January 1981 – 20 January 1989 Preceded by: Jimmy Carter Succeeded by: George H.W. Bush Date of birth: 6 February 1911 Place of birth: Tampico, Illinois Date of death: 5 June 2004 Place of death: Bel-Air...
White House portrait Nancy Davis Reagan (born July 6, 1921) is the widow of President Ronald Reagan and was First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989. ...
The Presidents Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) is part of the Executive Office of the President of the United States. ...
The Bloomingdale's maintained homes in New York and on the West Coast of the United States, and while in Los Angeles, a 54-year-old Alfred Bloomingdale began an affair with an 18-year-old usher from Grauman's Chinese Theater by the name of Vicki Morgan. For 12 years, Bloomingdale kept her in a luxurious apartment, showering her with expensive clothing, jewelry, and cars. Griffith Observatory and the Downtown Los Angeles skyline. ...
Graumans Chinese Theater Graumans Chinese Theatre, at 6925 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood is a world-famous movie palace that opened in 1927 and has since become one of Southern Californias most recognizable and visited landmarks. ...
Cover of one Vicki Morgan book Vicki Morgan (August 9, 1952–July 7, 1983) was a model and a high-profile murder victim. ...
Alfred Bloomingdale died of throat cancer in 1982 in Santa Monica, California. Newspaper headlines soon screamed with stories of his sexual relationship with Vicki Morgan as a result of unsubstantiated details provided in her unsuccessful multi-million dollar palimony lawsuit. Although the case against Bloomingdale's estate was dismissed by the courts, the entire affair was soon back in the headlines when Morgan was murdered in a brutal attack by her roommate less than a year after Alfred Bloomingdale had been interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. Head and neck cancers are malignant growths located in the oral cavity (mouth), nasal cavity, pharynx, larynx, thyroid, paranasal sinuses, salivary glands and lymph nodes of the upper neck. ...
Santa Monica Pier Santa Monica is a coastal city located in Los Angeles County, California USA, by the Pacific Ocean, south of Pacific Palisades and Brentwood, west of Westwood, Los Angeles, and north of Venice. ...
Palimony is a slang term referring to a court judgment for property or support in a lawsuit between unmarried cohabitants. ...
Holy Cross Cemetery is located at 5835 W. Slauson Avenue in Culver City, California. ...
Culver City sign, at the northeast corner of the Sepulveda Boulevard and Centinela Avenue intersection, near the 405 and the 90 freeway interchange. ...
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