WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1929 | HI 41° LOW 23°

Had lunch with Bert. She was awfully ill so I brought her up to the wash room & she laid there for about ½ hour. She felt better. Katherine came in work after me & went to the Turin Grotto for dinner. From there we went to the Stanley. We had lots of fun. She told me all about Nelson. She has it bad and how!

Lunch with Bert (the woman who knows a lot about racers), two days in a row, after telling her “more than I should,” yesterday, but today Bert is ill. I wonder where lunch was that our girl had access to the wash room and a place to lay down. At work? At home? It is a work day, though we’re not sure yet what her work hours are yet.

We first met Katherine three days ago, on Sunday, when Katherine asked our girl to a show that night. Katherine is the girl in “that girl sure is in love.” Looks like she may be in love with Nelson?!

New People

Nelson: Apparently, he’s the object of Katherine’s love, or as our girl puts it, “She has it bad and how!”

New Places

Turin Grotto: There’s not much out there about this place, other than an article about how hard it is to make it in the restaurant business, and this was listed as an example along with a few others.

The Stanley: Opened February 1928 (less than a year ago for Ethel and friends), and according to Pittsburgh Music History, it offered stage shows and movies, including Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, and Cab Calloway.

Patrons entered from Seventh Avenue into the high ceiling Grand Lobby, Two staircases led to the upper lobby and the balconies. One local newspaper writer dubbed the Stanley the “movie palace version of Versailles” as the walls of the landings on two staircases in the [?] had 18-foot high mirrors decorated in the style of the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles. Women’s lounges were furnished with pieces in the Louis the Fifteenth style. The gentlemen’s lounge offered a club like atmosphere where one could smoke. —Pittsburgh Music History

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Image Credit: Stanley Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA in 1928 – Proscenium, from Charmaine Zoe’s Marvelous Melange. Cropped to fit main image requirements. Some rights reserved.