St. Louis, Missouri Zoo - Centennial
Celebration
Vintage Clothing at the Murphy Auto
Museum
Holley Gene is costumer for the
Murphy Auto Museum in Oxnard, CA - the
only classic auto and vintage clothing museum in the USA.
See 50 classic automobiles and vintage clothing from the 1900s thru the
1970s.
Regular hours for the museum are
Saturdays and Sundays, 10 am to 4 pm - admission: $6/$3.
See the museum website for further information.
Women's Spiritual Repertory Company
(WSRC)
Holley Gene is costumer for the
Women's Spiritual Repertory Company (WSRC), an organization of individuals
and groups of women dedicated to learning and teaching others about the
women of the Bible, their lives and stories.
Contact WSRC through their website
www.biblewomen.net if you are interested in further information.
Leonis Adobe Museum
Holley Gene is costumer for the
Leonis Adobe Museum.
Miguel Leonis, one of the most colorful
of the early land settlers and pioneers of Los Angeles, became the third
richest man in California. His home and headquarters was the Leonis Adobe
located in Calabasas at the west end of the San Fernando Valley. Now a
museum, it is open to the public.
- Click here to see a photo of
Angela Shwanz,
Leonis Adobe General Manager, wearing an 1880s bustle dress.
- Click
here to go to the Leonis
Adobe website.
Heritage Square - Oxnard, CA
Holley Gene has given several presentations
to the docents about turn-of-the-century costumes appropriate for the historical
buildings of Heritage Square. Click
here to go to the Heritage Square website.
1903 Automobile Trip
2003 was the 100th anniversary of
my grandfather's trip across America in a 1903 Curved Dash Oldsmobile!
My grandfather, Eugene Irish Hammond, and his companion, Lester L. Whitman,
were the first to drive all the
way across the USA (from California to Maine - two earlier auto trips by others ended in New
York).
My family's 1903 Olds is now on display at the Murphy Auto Museum in Oxnard (Calif).