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...trend in stores. Expected to gross $7,500,000 a year, the store, which opened last fall, is now operating at an annual rate of $16 million. Bullock's was so pleased that it hired Walt & Welt to design two more branches at Palm Springs and Westwood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSTRUCTION: Walt & Welt | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...other occupants of the wrecked vehicle, John Snow, of Westwood, and Robert Davidson, of 285 Warren Street, Brookline received minor injuries. Snow had a fractured chin, while Davidson suffered contusions and lacerations of the face...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Sent to Boston Hospital By Auto Crash | 10/10/1947 | See Source »

...some areas," said Barber Bert Oakley, "my new shop would scare the trade away." But not in fashionable Westwood, a Cadillac's spurt away from Hollywood. With searchlights, clouds of soap bubbles, and a few cinemactor customers (Allan Jones and Pat O'Brien) to give it atmosphere, the grand opening of "the world's swankiest tonsorial parlor" last week drew thousands of spectators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Figaro in Wonderland | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

...Westwood when it was just an ambitious real-estate scheme superimposed on a field of lima beans. He sank his last $450 in a two-chair shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Figaro in Wonderland | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

Done by Reaching. As the community expanded, Bert moved along with the rest of Westwood's small businessmen. He added a few more chairs, expanded again to 14 after a customer pointed out one day that six millionaires were at that moment sitting in his chairs. When his son came back from service and took over the operation of the shop, Bert began building his $162,000 dream castle across the street. He thought up most of its fancy gadgets himself, had them custom-made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Figaro in Wonderland | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

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