Bank-Ordered Luxury Home Auction - La Maison des Deux Fleurs
This Luxury Lake Michigan Retreat is truly a one-of-a-kind property. The home was custom-built to provide an experience for the owners and their guests, as they clearly had a passion for the natural beauty of Northern Wisconsin and the shores of Lake Michigan. This is obvious not only from the design and aesthetic, but also the location of the home which is nestled in the private and gated Marshall’s Point Nature Preserve. The property boasts over 21 beautifully wooded acres and 800’ of Lake Michigan shoreline which is visible from both the custom marble patio and all three stories of the home. From the time you enter the home you feel warm and cozy as you are greeted by a double-sided fireplace in the entry foyer which leads to the great room or either wing of the home. The layout and lighting continues the sense of warmth one feels as you move through the home. The interior finishings include antique heart pine floors, Bertch cabinets, Juparana Gold counters, exposed steel ship hull trusses and natural stone fireplaces, to name a few. Tom Birmingham, Owner of Great Northern Construction, said it is, “one of the finest homes that my company has ever built.” While there are too many to list, some of the features of the home include a 360-degree observation tower, outdoor kitchen, library, three-season’s room, butler’s pantry, wine cellar, walk-in cedar closet and outdoor playset. The new owner of this property will be able to find year-round enjoyment by just getting away from the fast pace of day-to-day life or by taking advantage of the activities within Marshall’s Point such as hiking, cross country skiing, bird watching or playing tennis and basketball.
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646 E 6th St., Hinsdale, IL
646 E 6th St,
Hinsdale, IL 60521
5 beds 5.5 baths 5,768 sqft
Nestled in one of Chicago's most appealing suburbs, this elegant estate offers privacy and comfort just a short walk from Hinsdale's first-rate schools, boutique shopping, and bustling Metra station. Engineered by the celebrated design and build team of Michael Abraham and Tim Thompson, the home represents a modern take on classic French design. Lavish attention to detail and expansive, private grounds make this home an oasis of style that will delight any family. There are 20 rooms, 5 bedroom suites w/walk in closets, 4 full baths and 3 half baths. Master Bed. Rm. Sitting area adds a 13x11 space with an exterior balcony, His /Hers walk-in closets and Lux bath with double sized steam shower. 3rd flr bonus rm measures 25 x 19 and a walk-in cedar closet. Main level has a 12x11 two story foyer, 9x5 walk-in pantry and 6x6 mud rm with built-ins. Additional entertainment and storage lower level - 13x13 wine cellar with Italian tile flooring and climate control, Party kitchen 25x13 and storage 26x17.
Calling All Cars: The Long-Bladed Knife / Murder with Mushrooms / The Pink-Nosed Pig
The radio show Calling All Cars hired LAPD radio dispacher Jesse Rosenquist to be the voice of the dispatcher. Rosenquist was already famous because home radios could tune into early police radio frequencies. As the first police radio dispatcher presented to the public ear, his was the voice that actors went to when called upon for a radio dispatcher role.
The iconic television series Dragnet, with LAPD Detective Joe Friday as the primary character, was the first major media representation of the department. Real LAPD operations inspired Jack Webb to create the series and close cooperation with department officers let him make it as realistic as possible, including authentic police equipment and sound recording on-site at the police station.
Due to Dragnet's popularity, LAPD Chief Parker became, after J. Edgar Hoover, the most well known and respected law enforcement official in the nation. In the 1960s, when the LAPD under Chief Thomas Reddin expanded its community relations division and began efforts to reach out to the African-American community, Dragnet followed suit with more emphasis on internal affairs and community policing than solving crimes, the show's previous mainstay.
Several prominent representations of the LAPD and its officers in television and film include Adam-12, Blue Streak, Blue Thunder, Boomtown, The Closer, Colors, Crash, Columbo, Dark Blue, Die Hard, End of Watch, Heat, Hollywood Homicide, Hunter, Internal Affairs, Jackie Brown, L.A. Confidential, Lakeview Terrace, Law & Order: Los Angeles, Life, Numb3rs, The Shield, Southland, Speed, Street Kings, SWAT, Training Day and the Lethal Weapon, Rush Hour and Terminator film series. The LAPD is also featured in the video games Midnight Club II, Midnight Club: Los Angeles, L.A. Noire and Call of Juarez: The Cartel.
The LAPD has also been the subject of numerous novels. Elizabeth Linington used the department as her backdrop in three different series written under three different names, perhaps the most popular being those novel featuring Det. Lt. Luis Mendoza, who was introduced in the Edgar-nominated Case Pending. Joseph Wambaugh, the son of a Pittsburgh policeman, spent fourteen years in the department, using his background to write novels with authentic fictional depictions of life in the LAPD. Wambaugh also created the Emmy-winning TV anthology series Police Story. Wambaugh was also a major influence on James Ellroy, who wrote several novels about the Department set during the 1940s and 1950s, the most famous of which are probably The Black Dahlia, fictionalizing the LAPD's most famous cold case, and L.A. Confidential, which was made into a film of the same name. Both the novel and the film chronicled mass-murder and corruption inside and outside the force during the Parker era. Critic Roger Ebert indicates that the film's characters (from the 1950s) represent the choices ahead for the LAPD: assisting Hollywood limelight, aggressive policing with relaxed ethics, and a straight arrow approach.
Point Sublime: Refused Blood Transfusion / Thief Has Change of Heart / New Year's Eve Show
Clifford Charles Cliff Arquette (December 27, 1905 -- September 23, 1974) was an American actor and comedian, famous for his TV role as Charley Weaver.
Arquette was born in Toledo, Ohio, the son of Winifred (née Clark) and Charles Augustus Arquette, a vaudevillian. He was the patriarch of the Arquette show business family, which became famous because of him. Arquette was the father of the late actor Lewis Arquette and the grandfather of actors Patricia, Rosanna, Alexis (originally Robert), Richmond, and David Arquette. He was a night club pianist, later joining the Henry Halstead orchestra in 1923.
Arquette had been a busy, yet not nationally known, performer in radio, theatre, and motion pictures until 1956, when he retired from show business. At one time, he was credited with performing in 13 different daily radio shows at different stations in the Chicago market, getting from one studio to the other by way of motorboats along the Chicago River through its downtown. One such radio series he performed on was The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok Arquette and Dave Willock had their own radio show, Dave and Charley, in the early 1950s as well as a television show by the same name that was on the air for three months. Arquette performed on the shows as Charley Weaver.
The story that Arquette later told about his big break was that one night in the late 1950s he was watching The Tonight Show. Host Jack Paar happened to ask the rhetorical question, Whatever became of Cliff Arquette? That startled Arquette so much that, I almost dropped my Scotch!
In 1959, Arquette accepted Paar's invitation to perform on Paar's NBC Tonight Show. Arquette depicted the character of Charley Weaver, the wild old man from Mount Idy. He would bring along, and read, a letter from his Mamma back home. This characterization proved so popular that Arquette almost never again appeared in public as himself, but nearly always as Charley Weaver, complete with his squashed hat, little round glasses, rumpled shirt, broad tie, baggy pants, and suspenders.
Although a good number of Arquette's jokes appear 'dated' now (and, arguably, even back then), he could still often convulse Paar and the audience into helpless laughter by way of his timing and use of double entendres in describing the misadventures of his fictional family and townspeople. As Paar noted, in his foreword to Arquette's first Charley Weaver book:
Sometimes his jokes are old, and I live in the constant fear that the audience will beat him to the punch line, but they never have. And I suspect that if they ever do, he will rewrite the ending on the spot. I would not like to say that all his jokes are old, although some have been found carved in stone. What I want to say is that in a free-for-all ad lib session, Charley Weaver has and will beat the fastest gun alive.
Arquette, as Charley Weaver, hosted Charley Weaver's Hobby Lobby on ABC from September 30, 1959 to March 23, 1960.
Arquette also appeared as Charley Weaver on the short-lived The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show on ABC from September 29 to December 29, 1962.
Arquette was also a frequent guest on NBC's The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford, the short-lived The Dennis Day Show in the 1953-1954 season, and on The Jack Paar Show after Paar left The Tonight Show.