General

A rootin' tootin' cowboy sporting two pistols, dressed in white twenty-gallon hat, white long sleeve shirt, white gloves with white leather tassels, and white fur-lined chaps.

Blaze Glory & How it All Began

For me it began in 1968. I was working for a film company in Studio City at the time, by the name of FilmFair. The owners were Gus and Bill Jekel, a pair of twin brothers. Of the two, Gus was the prime mover, having learned the business in the animation department at Walt Disney Studios. . . . Read More.

Smiling leslie zurla in her home office with her large sleepy cat looking over her shoulder.

Validation

Humorist and illustrator Leslie Zurla recounts her youthful adventures in the Big City of her imagination.

Exterior view of grand berlin department store, h joseph and company, in the 1930s.

A New Look at “Diary of a Department Store”

This is new information about what actually happened when the Nazis “Aryanized” the Berlin Department Store founded in 1900 by my grand uncle, “Sally” Rehfisch, and his partner, Hermann Joseph. More details about the people involved, before, during and after the war, in this update of my 2019 post, “Diary of a Department Store”.