Paige Young in Los AngelesSamson De Brier #2 February 2025
Read Samson De Brier #1 first for an introduction.
LAT= Los Angeles Times
More items found in the Samson De Brier archives are listed in this chapter.
I am in the process of ongoing research with several of these names, locations and years.
TV schedule made up by a utility company and sent out to customers. The date is likely when Samson and Paige Young were friends or at least acquaintances. She only had a little over a year left in her life.
6026 1/2 Barton Ave. is Samson’s address. Is Layne Nielson one of his renters?
LAT Jan. 15, 1968
Looks like Layne owned Selective Eye Gallery in the early 1970s.
There is a Selective Eye Gallery in Laguna Nigel by late 1977. Unknown if it was connected to Layne Nielson.
I don’t see much more in the newspaper archives about Nielson from the 1980s and beyond.
If online records are correct, he is alive at 86 and living in Salt Lake City.
Nielson donated his papers and design examples to UCLA; Charles E. Young Research Library. The Rudi Gernreich archives reside at this location as well.
Online Archive of California description of the Layne Nielsen Archives at UCLA:
Layne Nielson is a fashion and graphic designer who designed fashion accessories and stationery for Rudi Gernreich and for his own label. The collection includes fashion samples and accessories, as well as sketches, publicity, stationery, examples of Nielson’s design work in advertising, photographs, publications, and documentation of exhibitions.
Designer Layne Nielson is known for his work designing fashion accessories and stationery for Rudi Gernreich. Nielson’s work reflects a wide range of design, including: graphics, product design, textiles, exhibition design, and interior design.
LAT June 24, 1967
Below we see Samson saved his ticket to the Hullabaloo show.
Originally the Earl Carroll Theatre, “in 1965 (6230 Sunset Blvd. (listed on the card) became Hullabaloo rock-n-roll club welcoming minors and capitalizing on the popularity of the television variety show Hullabaloo. In 1968 it was renamed the Kaleidoscope…..with an emphasis on local bands like the Doors.
From Mike Hume’s Historic Theatre Photography.
The 3 images below are a store guide of antique and thrift stores on Magnolia Blvd. in Burbank. Samson was known for collecting antiques, art, and all kinds of home decor, which he displayed in his home on Barton Way.
Magnolia Blvd. in Burbank is still known as a place for for thrift, vintage clothing and antique stores.
Sidney Skolsky column. A current item on Marilyn Monroe along with his mention of Samson and Kenneth Anger and the famous underground film, The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome.
Detailed description of Renate Druks, from a published article. A Samson friend and fellow salon host, Druks sent several Christmas cards to Samson.
More on Druks in Samson chapter #1.
This image and the next 2 are credits for Kenneth Anger’s Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome.
In Samson Part #1 you learned that half of the De Brier archive is a box of Christmas cards. Primarily from the 1950s to 1970s.
Christmas card, I can’t remember from who.
I have found very little so far. The best clue I have is the article below. It contains a one sentence mention of a Donna Burris for a “witchy” type “casting call.”
July 2, 1966 LAT. I have much more information on Animal Huxley and Pamela Woolman. Can’t find anything more on Marti Cone.
These three women had their picture in the LAT to go with this article. They, and every other woman there, are mentioned with only a sentence or two at most.
Donna Burris
is also mentioned with only one sentence, but no photograph.
2nd column, 2nd paragraph.
2 newspaper items found by me in newspaper archives. Los Angeles Mirror Feb. 7, 1961. >>>>>>>>>>>
LAT. Mar. 11, 1966.
Samson De Brier LAT Obituary April 8, 1995
Samson’s close friend Cameron also died in 1995.
More info. to come!
Below is a paragraph from a first- hand account article, by Tosh Berman, the son of artist Wallace.
It’s significant for my research, because I firmly believe that Paige Young would have fit into this category of Samson De Brier’s pretty women friends.
I only went into Samson’s Barton Avenue home once, and that was through an invite from one of his female friends. When I saw Samson at art openings or film events, he was usually with a pretty woman. All of his women were protective of him, and in my view, they were at odds with each other. I was sworn to secrecy not to reveal who took me to the house after Samson passed away. I think it was a day or two after he died. At the time I was the director at Beyond Baroque, the literary/arts center in Venice, California.
by Tosh Berman, Please Kill Me: This is What is Cool.
Linking entire article which I highly recommend.
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