308.10 Vienna’s Belvedere Palace] Baroque complex of palaces, built by the Hapsburgs in the early eighteenth century.
313.28 Encyclopædia Britannica] Originally published in three volumes in Edinburgh, 1768–71, the Britannica expanded to twenty-nine volumes by its final British edition, the eleventh (1910–11); subsequently production of the work moved to the United States, and the final print edition was published in 2010.
358.35 Corpus Juris] Multivolume legal encyclopedia, published by the American Law Book Company, 1914–37.
BEAST IN VIEW
381.1 BEAST IN VIEW] See the title poem from Muriel Rukeyser’s collection Beast in View (New York: Doubleday, 1944). It reads in part (lines 9–16): “At last seeing / I came here by obscure preparing, / In vigils and encounters being / Both running hunter and fierce prey waring. / I hunted and became the followed, / Through many lives fleeing the last me, / And changing fought down a far road / Through time to myself as I will be.”
382.2 BETTY AND JOHN MERSEREAU] Friends of Margaret and Kenneth Millar from Santa Barbara, California.
391.2 Down by the Old Mill Stream. Harvest Moon. Daisy, Daisy.] “Down by the Old Mill Stream” (1908), song written by Frank Logan Carlton and sung by Tell Taylor; “Shine On, Harvest Moon” (1908), song made popular by Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth; “Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Built for Two)” (1892), song by Harry Dacre.
392.26–27 at Scandia or the Brown Derby or the Roosevelt] Scandia, a restaurant on Sunset Boulevard that opened in 1947 and closed in 1989; the Brown Derby, chain of Los Angeles restaurants of which the first opened on 3427 Wilshire Boulevard in 1926; the Roosevelt, historic Hollywood hotel that opened in 1927.
403.39–40 The mountain labored . . . a mouse.] The figure is derived from a fable of Aesop.
409.19 Ava Gardner] Screen actress (1922–1990), star of The Killers (1946), One Touch of Venus (1948), Mogambo (1953), and other films.
428.18 Vine Street Derby] Hollywood branch of the Brown Derby restaurant chain, located at 1628 North Vine Street; largely destroyed by fire in 1987, the restaurant closed.
428.22 Tempus fugit] Latin: Time flies.
430.4 Dylan Thomas] Welsh poet (1914–1953) famous for his public readings of his work and his poem “Do not go gentle into that good night” (1951).
442.10 Princeton colors] Orange and black, official colors of Princeton University.
487.22–23 Biltmore Bowl] Dining room and nightclub in the Biltmore Hotel, located on Pershing Square in Los Angeles, built in 1923; the room was the site of early Academy Awards ceremonies.
492.6 Mecca] Club Mecca, on S. Normandie Avenue.
496.5 Camarillo] Camarillo State Mental Hospital in Camarillo, California, founded in 1932 and closed in 1997.
517.18 yellow jackets] Slang name for Nembutal capsules.
517.19 Nembutal] A commercial brand name for the barbiturate Pentobarbital.
FOOLS’ GOLD
541.3 Sousa] American composer John Philip Sousa (1854–1932), whose marches included “The Liberty Bell” (1893) and “The Stars and Stripes Forever” (1897).
558.32–34 the Sands, the Sahara, the Flamingo, Desert Inn, the Dunes, Thunderbird] Las Vegas hotels: the Sands operated 1952–96; the Sahara opened in 1952 and closed in 2011, before reopening in 2014 as SLS Hotel & Casino; the Flamingo opened in 1946 and is currently operated by Caesars Entertainment; the Desert Inn opened in 1950 and closed in 2000; the Dunes opened in 1955 and closed in 1993, and after its demolition the Bellagio was built in its place; the Thunderbird opened in 1948, changed its name to the Silverbird in 1977 and El Rancho Casino in 1982, and closed in 1992.
606.16–17 old-fashioned Packard limousine] The Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, which began operations in 1899 and went out of business in 1958, the year of Fools’ Gold’s publication.
677.20 Donner Pass] Mountain pass near Truckee, California; it is named for the party of westward emigrants who in 1846 were snowed in and suffered starvation and heavy loss of life, some allegedly resorting to cannibalism.
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