This is a promotional map from
Addison Mizner (
Boca Raton Historical Society )
Mizner really did put Boca Raton on the map when he put The
Boca Raton Resort on the map !
This is last October's cover, and it is soooooo Boca !
( this October's cover might be very different )
It is just up the road from Boca raton, so you should ....
Take a drive and see how the other half lives, from Donald Trump’s fabulous Mar-a-Lago (1100 South Ocean), once the palatial estate of Marjorie Merriweather Post, past John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s former house (720 North Ocean ) and the Estee Lauder estate (126 South Ocean) to lovely Worth Avenue, one of the most famous shopping streets in the world. While you are there. make sure you pop into Via Mizner and visit the grave of Johnnie Brown, the pet monkey of Palm Beach/Boca Raton society architect Addison Mizner. It was eccentric Mizner, complete with a monkey on his shoulder, who, in the 1920s, brought the “Old World Mediterranean” look to Palm Beach and points south. If you decide to explore the north end of the island, you can find the former Kennedy compound at 1095 North Ocean, the family’s winter estate until 1995 and site of where William Kennedy Smith was infamously accused of rape in 1991 ( Boca Raton Mag. )
This is the Historical Society's Building, they took over the Original Town Hall
Building.It is a wonderful organization of which I have been involved with. I will post about that later.
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This is promotional literature from Mr.
Mizners Company, he had a dream for
Boca Raton and designed
The Boca Raton Resort which really is
The Centerpiece of Boca.
The
Boca Raton Resort's entrance. ( click to enlarge )
How about a swim at this pool ? Yes, This is The
Boca Raton Resort and yes more people watching, sometimes bordering on a freak show. But that is just through my eyes, what do I know ? ( if you come down and run into me at Mizner's, I'll tell you what I know, and you won't believe it !!! Truth really is stranger that fiction. ( click to enlarge )
The
Boca Raton Resort Golf Course
I do not play golf, but I would drive the cart.
And then have a yummy lunch at Chauncy's.
This is Red Reef Park in
Boca Raton.
More of Red Reef Park. Everyone comes to sun bathe and
snorkel here.
This is what we refer to as
'Mizner'. It is an open air city center with apartments above the stores and restaurants below all inspired by the Mizner design style.
You do not want to miss this !!! It has many
great restaurants and good shopping as well. And the 'Starbucks' here is a hot spot.
If indeed you like people watching, come to 'Mizner' at night.
Now this....really can be a
Freak Show Extrordinaire.
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pics from Boca Raton Historical Society, The Boca Raton Resort and City DataRenee Finberg 'TELLS ALL' in her blog of her Adventures in Design
Like all good Mizner Loyalist , we love Johnnie Brown. Johnny Brown was Addison Mizner's pet spider monkey. He is burried down a little Via off Worth Avenue in Palm Beach.
This is a promotional map from Addison Mizner ( Boca Raton Historical Society )
This is last October's cover, and it is soooooo Boca ! ( this October's cover might be very different )
This is the Historical Society's Building, they took over the Original Town Hall Building.
( Click on pics to enlarge )
The Boca Raton Resort's entrance. ( click to enlarge )
How about a swim at this pool ? Yes, This is The Boca Raton Resort and yes more people watching, sometimes bordering on a freak show. But that is just through my eyes, what do I know ? ( if you come down and run into me at Mizner's, I'll tell you what I know, and you won't believe it !!! Truth really is stranger that fiction. ( click to enlarge )
The Boca Raton Resort Golf Course 
This is Red Reef Park in Boca Raton.
More of Red Reef Park. Everyone comes to sun bathe and snorkel here.
This is what we refer to as 'Mizner'. It is an open air city center with apartments above the stores and restaurants below all inspired by the Mizner design style. You do not want to miss this !!! It has many great restaurants and good shopping as well. And the 'Starbucks' here is a hot spot.
Since it is NO FUN walking on the sand barefoot, you can will me here, ( please DON'T)
Central Park has always been a very special place to me. It is so very beautiful all year !!
When I first moved to Manhattan in 1975 I danced the nights away at places like; Studio 54, Xenon's, Hippopotamus , The Library, and I would end up eating breakfast just before dawn at The Brasserie on east 53rd Street . The Brasserie was well known and great for people watching, there were many drunk & stoned Movies Star's along with the Famous Clothing Designers. 'The Lush Life' in more than one way.
Right outside the windows of cafes all over Manhattan you would see people sleeping in doorways , hallways, over subway grates covered with newspaper to keep warm. By the rivers , and under bridges you would see people living in boxes and burning fires in coffee cans to cook and keep warm. The city of Manhattan was bankrupt, there was no help or place for these poor people.
You know, It was a difficult time for me (and it certainly could have gotten worse for me) as well, because I was young, stupid, spending everything I got my hands on, and I was so afraid that I might miss something. I was burning at both ends. It was all so sophisticated and beautiful I thought. 
This post started while researching swimming pools, one thing led to another and I was at San Simeon. This pool room must have been a magical place to experience. Upon further investigation I was reminded of the Stock Market Crash of 1929....
(W.R.H. was originally a DEMOCRAT but became a Republican)
On a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean, halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, was donated by the Hearst Corporation to the state of California in 1957, and is now a State Historical Monument and a National Historic Landmark, open for public tours. Hearst formally named the estate 'La Cuesta Encantada' ('The Enchanted Hill'), but he called it 'the ranch'.
His palatial estate, Hearst Castle, near San Simeon, California, on a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean, halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, was donated by the Hearst Corporation to the state of California in 1957, and is now a State Historical Monument and a National Historic Landmark, open for public tours. Hearst formally named the estate 'La Cuesta Encantada' ('The Enchanted Hill'), but he called it 'the ranch'.
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This Velocipede or Tricycle is in the French museum:
Or other elevated areas that need large accessories. Or even next to a chair in a corner-
This is the type of thing you can find in the discount stores that I mentioned above.
This was in the paper in 1933
( New - Ballard Design )
( 1920 Quilted Mercury Glass $1400.00 )
Silvered mercury glass describes glass that was blown double-walled, then silvered between the layers with a solution containing silver nitrate in a liquid formula and sealed.
( c. 1880 )
( New Crackle Mercury Glass )
( New - Ballard Design )
Just think….You never Polish it. Although my mother would, she would polish my daughter with silver polish if she would stay still long enough.
Can't you see this floating in the middle of the perfectly put together traditional kitchen with all the bells and whistles ? On top of a stone floor ?
It is hard for me to choose, this one is a beautiful APPLIANCE as well.
Like a monkey....I would be opening and closing the doors, looking at every little detail.
I would probably start working from my kitchen to be near my Fairy Tale Fridge.
From their site it seems they have Oxblood, Hunter Green, Black & Antique White or Cream for colors. The Metals are Brass, Burnished Brass ( I think that is what looks like Copper ) and Nickel Finishes for those with stainless steel.
This is my dream cook top and oven. I could slap it right against the wall in my kitchen ( after I change out the dishwasher and fridge - LOL ) and it would look as if it had been there forever.