Holiday shopping picks and party season bargains
A cheerful roundup of post holiday sales invites readers to Ballard and Brockett for affordable skirts and coordinated blouses, Blairware Shop for rustproof aluminum trays and copper wares, Marionello Beauty Shoppe for styling, Red Onion for French Dip sandwiches, and Oriental Arts for pre inventory sales with discounts of 20 to 50 percent on Chinese merchandise, plus half price RATTANWARE items and over 200 figurine seconds priced at 1.00.
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Ballard and Brockett
C Avenue
Crown Shops
West Place
The
Oriental Arts
Orange
Oriental Arts Rattanware
Orange Avenue
Coronado Fetes New Year Gala Across Military Bases
Coronado marked New Year with multiple parties at the Naval Air Station North Island Amphibious Base and Coronado Yacht Club. Notables attended at the messes and hotel venues, with dances, buffets, and late-night suppers drawing hundreds of guests and lasting into 1949.
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Coronado
Popular Speaker To Review New Books In San Diego
Lolita Baker Vallely, noted world affairs reviewer, will speak at 11 a.m. next Monday at the San Diego Woman's Club. The event, part of a series by the Woman's Philharmonic Committee, will cover fourteen books including We're All In It and As Others See Us, with reviews of China, Greece, Indonesia and other tensions. A luncheon will follow at the El Cortez Hotel with reservations via Mr. Rock.
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San Diego
Woman’s Club
Woman's Philharmonic Committee
Eric Johnston
Andre Wilson
China
Greece
Indonesia
Review of World Affairs
Fred Vanderschmidt
Russia
Balkans
Bishop and Crayfield
Iron Curtain
Ferenc Nagy
Mexico
Carey McWilliams
Beatrice Griffith
Eleanor Palffy
Emily Kimbrough
Piccolo
Meredith Wilson
Elizabeth
Margaret Irwin
Esther Forbes
Antoines
Frances Parkinson Keyes
Ruth Moore
el Cortez
Mr. Rock
Artists Form County Wide Committee For 1949 Fair
At a San Diego County Art Council meeting Ed ward Longstreth was urged to appoint a representative for all active county art groups to cooperate with the 1949 County Fair officials. The Cultural Committee includes Painters Architects Ceramics Crafts Sculpture Water Color Prints Public Education Photography. Coronado School of Fine Arts members Aloys Bohnen Dan Dickey Marge Loring Donald Hord join the committee.
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San Diego ‘County
Coronado School of Fine Arts
Aloys Bohnen
Dan Dickey
Marge Loring
Donald Hord
Adm
P. W. Hord
Coronado Art Association
French Films Show Friday at Coronado School of Fine Arts
A French sound film on Tapestries d Aubusson will be shown Friday at 1 00 p m at Coronado School of Fine Arts 692 Margarita Avenue along with Ancient Monuments a 45 minute film and color slides on Guan Gris by Monty Lewis director. The Students Exhibition of Art Work continues for two weeks and is praised as one of Coronado s finest with many works already sold.
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Tapisseries d’ Aubusson
Coronado School of Fine Arts
Margarita Avenue
Guan Gris
Monty Lewis
Coronado
New Textile Painting Class Offered by Coronado Night School
Coronado Evening School announces a new free class in textile painting taught by Mrs. Elizabeth Fritter. Sessions begin Thursday January 14 at 6 00 p m in Coronado High School with enrollment at the first meeting.
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Coronado Evening School
Elizabeth Fritter
Coronado High School
Yeager
New Year's Buffet at Mrs Runyon Home
A New Year’s Day buffet was held at 1320 Glorietta Boulevard hosted by Mrs. Martha Runyon and her daughter. Guests included Miss M Radke of San Francisco Miss Louise Chvotal Mrs EB Hoeth and daughter Jewel Lt and Mrs Zulger Lt and Mrs Palmer Mrs Clay just arrived from Honolulu Mrs Q M Lowhorne and Mrs E Stagawall.
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Martha Runyon
Glorietta Boulevard
Club Meetings Announced for January at Local Venues
The Business and Professional Woman's Club meets tonight at 8 p.m. in the Library Park club house. The Women's Society of St. Paul's Methodist Church will gather January 13 at 2 p.m. at Mrs. John Fifield's home 700 Tenth Street. Members and friends are invited.
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Business and Professional Woman's Club
Library Park
Women’s Society of
St. Paul's Methodist Church
John Fifield
Tenth Street
Coronado Woman’s Club
W. C. Stitt
Avenue
Club News and Meetings Highlight January Events
Community clubs announce their January program plans including a New Year meeting in the High School Auditorium with a comedy sketch and plays, a radio workshop in Library Park House, and elections in February. Coronado Womans Club and Eastern Star hold meetings with officers, parliaments, and social events. Navy relief sewing group resumes, Garden Section meets, and a general past time party schedule outlined.
Gay Sunday Party To Meet Mrs. Marsh At Coronado
Mrs. Melville Brown hosted a Sunday reception from 5 to 7 in honor of her sister Mrs. Hadleigh Marsh of Montana who is wintering in Coronado. The party featured scarlet poinsettias and Christmas berries and drew many naval officers and their spouses including Adm. and Mrs. O. C. Murfin and Vice Adm. and Mrs. G. L. Weyler among others. John Reed officiated at the bar and clocks in the cloakroom caused amused double takes as guests realized they had arrived early.
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O. C. Murfin
G. L. Weyler
Freeland A. Daubin
Otto Bartoe
Thomas Shine
H. N. Ravenscroft
H. G. Wallace
T. H.alford
D. R. Aldridge
Davis DeTreville
C. T. Gladden
William Connor
John §. McCain
Catherine
Helen June Kearney
Jefferson D. Smith
John Reed
Irwins Return From Sun Valley Holiday
Mr and Mrs James Alexander Irwin returned Monday night from a Sun Valley holiday. The couple described 38 below zero temperatures but felt fine due to crisp air. Christmas featured Santa and sleigh bells with 500 skiers while Mrs Irwin posed on skis. They skated many hours and came home healthy and happy.
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James Alexander Irwin
Sun Valley
Santa Claus
Holloway Party Hosted by USS Princeton Officers
Lt John C Holloway Jr and Mrs Holloway entertained a large party of Princeton personnel and Naval Air Station friends at their F Avenue home from 6 to 8 pm last Thursday. The event featured a roast turkey buffet and heirloom lace tablecloth with white asters in a silver bowl, with guests staying on past New Year’s Eve.
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C.C.M
Adm
B. J. Rogers
U.D.T
C.D
J. R. Rubens
USN
G. R. Donaho
J. D. McKinney
L. J. Huffman
C. D. Garrison
Albert Watson
R. C. Lynch
Leroy Canedy
Ensign
Harry Austin
Jack Crumley
Sunday Durland
Mary Moore
Fred Stubbins
KUSN
North Island
Walter Fitch
Ocean Boulevard
John C. Holloway, Jr
Holloway
Geanie
F Avenue
Princeton
Holloways
Naval Air Station
Lt. Holloway
Coronado Plans Child Care Center For Working Families
A proposed child care center at 155 Prospect Place Coronado will serve children of working parents with priority for registered nurses teachers veterans and Serviceman's Readjustment Act enrollees. Fees vary on income and a full health exam is required with daily meals and structured activities.
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Prospect Place
Coronado
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John H. Campman
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Harold Requa
Charles Fenton
Coronado Yacht Club
North Island Officers’ Club
Charles Allen
Elmer Muhl
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Deddy) Ackerman
Merle Frances
John Purcell
F. Watkins
Hutton Ross- Gower
Vanderbilt
Pye
P. Ginder
George Neal
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Francis E. Nuessle
Charles Keller
Mortensen
Ennalls Waggaman
J. R. MacMasters
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Ca Ane
Lolita Baker Vallely
Bill English
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Strindberg
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Elinor Canedy
Eddie Wiegle
Mr. Wiegle
University of Illinois
University of Chicago
California
National
Probation Department of
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John Powers
Ben Seymour
Charles Latham
Mmes
Raymond Deewall
Gjermund Hoyme
Ida Brooks
John Waters
Jes Allen
W. E. Dornbach
Hugh Hadley
R. H. Archibald
W. R. Nichols
Robert Bradt
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Order of Eastern Star
Masonic Temple
Lillian Osckay
Samuel Kendig
Mamie Spitzhart
Anna Latsch
Navy Relief Sewing Group
Navy Officers’ Wives Relief Auxiliary Sewing Group
J. W. Wise
J Avenue
Henry D. Styer Post
Henry D. Styer
Phone Coronado Cab CO
Service
Crow Bealty CO
Mrs. Marsh
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P. K. Robottom
R. H. Hein
H. C. Roesch
C. 8. McWhorter
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Brown
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Irwins
USS
Hancock
Coronado Radio
KFT
KNX
UCP
Annes Huet
Ulla
Emerson and
Philco
Lana Turner
Gene Kelly
van Heflin
June Allyson
Three Musketeers
Technicolor
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Gail Russell
Miss Ethel Barrymore
Sun
George Raft
Bace Street
Danny Kaye
Virginia Mayo
Robert Stack
Edmond O'Brien
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