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Ma Maison was a restaurant opened by Patrick Terrail in October 1973 at 8368 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, California. [1] It closed in November 1985. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is credited with launching Wolfgang Puck 's career and for starting the trend in cuisine known as "California nouvelle". [ 3 ]
The restaurant's magnificent wine cellar, with 80,000 bottles of wine, attracted the rich revelers and party-goers of Paris. People who dined there included the future King Edward VII , the great art collector Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford (who lived opposite in 2 Rue Laffitte), and the Baron de Saint-Cricq .
Thorne retired from the presidency of Montgomery Ward in 1920 due to failing health. He and his wife traveled extensively for several years. [1] [2] In 1942, White Oaks was torn down and the Thornes moved to Coronado, California. In 1950, they moved to La Jolla, California. Thorne died there on March 20, 1955, after a lengthy illness. [1]
Near and east of Bryn Mawr; also roughly bounded by the Schuylkill River, Mill Creek, and Righter's Mill, Rose Glen, and Monk's Roads 40°01′32″N 75°17′08″W / 40.025556°N 75.285556°W / 40.025556; -75.285556 ( Mill Creek Historic
Ardath Road was renamed La Jolla Parkway on October 15, 2002, for two reasons: a nearby residential street was also named Ardath Road, and there was a desire to draw attention to this primary route to downtown La Jolla. This required the city of San Diego to pay $20,000 (about $32,000 in 2023 dollars) [29] to replace the signs on SR 52. [32]
Mouscron's public park dates back to the 1930s. With its ponds and manicured green areas, it is home to all [citation needed] the plant varieties that can be grown in the local climate [citation needed] and it extends over an area of 7 hectares. It was inaugurated in 1932 by Fernand Cocq. The house of Picardy (Maison Picarde).
Maisons Jaoul are a celebrated pair of houses in the upmarket Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, designed by Le Corbusier and built in 1954–56. They are among his most important post-war buildings and feature a rugged aesthetic of unpainted cast concrete "béton brut" and roughly detailed brickwork.
Maison Robert was a French restaurant in the Old City Hall section of Boston from 1972 until it closed in 2004. Kerry Byrne of the Boston Herald described it as "the city’s center of sophisticated dining and power lunches … was widely considered one of the nation’s best restaurants and created a stir in Boston’s culinary, social and political circles."