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...Barker Brothers Corp., one of the world's biggest house-furnishing stores, is admitted by its competitors to be the finest existing example of "The Los Angeles Spirit." This spirit is compact of two things which Southern Californians love: 1) a gaudy, glittery Hollywood veneer; 2) a loud, high-pressure sales technique. Barker's had shown this spirit so effectively that last week, despite the acute wartime shortages of furniture, the company said its 1944 gross would be $15,500,000, the highest since...
...keeping with the Hollywood motif, Barker's has a lobby which is a replica of a Moorish palace. Customers are seined in by a sales dragnet formed of all Barker employes (even janitors get commissions). They are further tracked down by means of a 15-ft. map of the city on which pins show new homeowners; other variously colored pins mark every major purchase at Barker's (gold if Barker's furnishes everything...
Last seen coming out of the Harvard Provision with two bottles of Southern Comfort, Charlie Gould and Ernie Barker were the last "gift buyers" around. Everyone else has given up, purchased is two tickets to that lodge in Maine (see C. J. Ritzen, curator of choice guide books), and sunk back into his bridge coat, prepared for the days ahead...
...Tunstall Barker Perry, III, Birmingham's pride, squired a Bradford miss to Cowie last Sunday noon, accompanied by that great Dane, Bennett Nielson, and date. "Yawall," (Perry), who is rumored to be the white man's Stepin Fetchet, stood in the chow line for ten minutes before he realized that it was moving...
...Barker's specifications: "absolutely free from dental caries [decay] ... sized, shaped and set true and properly in the dental arch . . . proper shade, colorings and translucence to blend perfectly with the surrounding gum tissue, the eyes, hair and complexion . . . perfect cusps, grooves, pits, fissures and marginal ridges...