ATDDTA(10) The Merchant Of Telluride [284]

[Keith]

Here we meet Ellmore Disco through his hat fetish, his store, his  
office. Page ends with a grand entrance.

[284:3-21] "E. Disco & Sons"

During the glory days of Leadville, several merchants, a la Ellmore  
Disco, had flashy stores. At the sites below you can find lists of  
merchandise similar to those describing the holdings of E. Disco & Sons:

   http://www.jewishleadville.org/surnames/monheimer.html

   http://www.jewishleadville.org/surnames/shoenberg.html

In 1879, May Company was founded in Leadville, Colorado, by German- 
born merchant David May, 26, who has left his Hartford City, Indiana,  
clothing-store job with $25,000 and gone west to seek a cure for his  
asthma. Starting with a store of board framework covered with muslin,  
May sells out his stock within a few weeks as Leadville booms  
overnight from a town of 500 to one of 25,000 in the wake of the 1874  
silver strike.
   http://www.answers.com/topic/1879

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[284:20-21] "Liberty's of London"

Sir Arthur Lazenby Liberty, the founder of Liberty of London,  
contributed in 1894 to the Healthy and Artistic Dress Union's journal  
Aglaia, which stated his declared aim to "promote improvements in  
dress that would make it consistent with health, comfort and healthy  
appearance, but [dress] should not obviously depart from the  
conventional mode." Lazenby Liberty had left the Oriental Warehouse,  
famous among the leading artists and aesthetes of the day for its  
collections of blue and white porcelain and oriental fabrics in 1874  
to set up on his own in half a shop in London's Regent Street.  
Lazenby Liberty presided over the shop's transformation from an  
Eastern bazaar to a department store that commissioned and sold  
modern design of all kinds.
   http://www.answers.com/topic/liberty-of-london

"Liberty is a well known store in Regent Street in central London,  
England at the heart of the West End shopping district. It was  
founded by Arthur Lasenby Liberty in 1875 to sell ornaments, fabrics  
and miscellaneous art objects from Japan and the Far East. Liberty &  
Co. first catered for an eclectic mixture of popular styles, but then  
went on to develop a fundamentally different style closely linked to  
the aesthetic movement of the 1890s and Art Nouveau. The company  
became synonymous with this new style to the extent that in Italy,  
Art Nouveau became known as Stile Liberty after the London shop."
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_of_London

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[284:25] "odors of fuller's earth, gun oil, and local citizenry"

The olfactory theme continues.

fuller's earth: "any fine-grained, naturally occurring earthy  
substance that has a substantial ability to adsorb impurities or  
colouring bodies from fats, grease, or oils. Its name originated with  
the textile industry, in which textile workers (or fullers) cleaned  
raw wool by kneading it in a mixture of water and fine earth that  
adsorbed oil, dirt, and other contaminants from the fibres."
   http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9035638/fullers-earth

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[284:30-31] "gigantic-size models of Colt pistol" (.44 Colt, cf. 286:27)
                http://www.armchairgunshow.com/ot53-pix/ac-2671.jpg
                http://www.inetres.com/gp/va/cb/colt44L.jpg

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[284:35] furniture in the Grand Rapids style:

The Arts and Crafts Movement in America is probably best known for  
the furniture it produced. Indeed, many claim that the furniture of  
the period was the one truly American product of the movement. Most  
of the furniture was built in the Midwest, particularly in Grand  
Rapids, Michigan. The golden years of Grand Rapids' reign as  
"Furniture City" corresponded with the height of the Arts and Crafts  
influence on furniture design. Roycroft and Stickley may have  
conceived of the artistic elements of Arts and Crafts furniture, but  
it was the large manufacturers in Grand Rapids who translated their  
artistic designs into affordable items and successfully marketed them  
to the masses.
   http://www.cl.utoledo.edu/canaday/artsandcrafts/furniture.html

   http://tinyurl.com/2mq3zr

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[284:36] "old Palace got shot up"

ice palace:
   http://www.legendsofamerica.com/CP-IcePalace.html

palace hotel:
   http://tinyurl.com/32dj5o

Crystal Palace Hotel:
   http://tinyurl.com/2vfdra

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[284:40] "Ellmore came barrelling in."

"Like it or not, he had joined the company of those who follow their  
hunches directly to the bottoms of barrels" [282:13-15]

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