Battisone Sam
Sam Battistone co-founded Sambo's restaurant chain which grew to 1,117 national locations. Only the original in Santa Barbara is still going.
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The Sambo's name came from a combo of 'Sam' and co-founder Newell Bohnett's nickname 'Bo'. The 1899 'Story of Little Black Sambo' was used later in marketing and decor, though its perceived racism contributed to the chain's demise.
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Bone Scott
Scott Bone was the third Territorial Governor of Alaska, serving from 1921–1925. He also decided to use dog sleds rather than a plane to transport diphtheria antitoxin 674 miles in the now-famous 1925 Serum Run, from which the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race stems. He was the editor of the Washington Post, founded the Washington Herald and later was the editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. When President Warren Harding was in North Nenana, Alaska to drive in the final spike for the completion of the Alaskan railroad on July 15,1923, Governor Bone inserted the final spike.
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Brinkman Paul
Paul Brinkman acted as Paul Brooks in his debut in "The Dough Girls" (1944). Other films include "Those Endearing Young Charms" (1945), and many short features such as "Double Honeymoon" (1945), "What, No Cigarettes" (1945) and "Roaring City" (1951). He married actress Jeanne Crain in December 1945, retired from acting in 1951, and became a business exec and radio manufacturer.
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Colman Ronald
Actor Ronald Colman was in Lost Horizon, and A Tale of Two Cities. He was nominated 4 times for the best actor oscar, winning for 1947's A Double Life.
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Crain Jeanne
Jeanne Crain was in A Letter To Three Wives, State Fair, Cheaper By the Dozen, Apartment for Peggy, Belles On Their Toes, and Dangerous Crossing. She earned an oscar nomination for the 1949 film Pinky, in which she plays a light-skinned black woman who passes as white. Later in her career, she co-starred with Dana Andrews in Hot Rods To Hell (1967), and her last films were Skyjacked, and The Night God Screamed (1975). While in high school, she was crowned Miss Pan Pacific. Her ice skating ability was shown in 1946's Margie, as she and Conrad Janis danced around the ice rink as her boyfriend, Alan Young, slipped and stumbled his way along. She had 7 children with husband Paul Brinkman.
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Gionfriddo Albert
Albert Gionfriddo played outfield for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1944 to 1947, then the Brooklyn Dodgers. In the 1947 World Series, he robbed Joe DiMaggio of what was then deemed a possible 2-run game-tying homer (later photo and film evidence show it to be well short of the wall) . He played and managed teams in the minors and Canada until 1959. He later owned a restaurant, and was a trainer and equipment manager for a high school.
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Harvey Laurence
Actor Laurence Harvey was in I Am A Camera, Look Back In Anger, and most famously played the villain in The Manchurian Candidate. Daughter Domino was a bounty hunter and died of a drug overdose. The film Domino with Keira Knightly is loosely based on her life.
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Hunter Tab
Tab Hunter, born Arthur Kelm, was an actor, singer, film producer and author. He was in Battle Cry, The Sea Chase, The Burning Hills, The Girl He Left Behind, Lafayette Escadrille, Gunman's Walk, and 1958's Damn Yankees co-starring Gwen Verdon and Ray Walston, and Ride the Wild Surf. He co-starred with Paul Newman in The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972), and co-starred opposite Divine in John Waters' Polyester (1981). He had his own TV show for a year, opposite the Ed Sullivan Show. Hunter wrote and starred in Dark Horse (1992), which was his last film.
Hunter had a 1957 hit record with the song "Young Love," and another hit, "Ninety-Nine Ways".
An award-winning 2015 documentary about his life, Tab Hunter Confidential, was directed by Jeffrey Schwarz and produced by Hunter's husband Allan Glaser. Hunter's autobiography, Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star (2005) was a NY Times best-seller. He has a star on the Walk of Fame.
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Parker Fess
Fess Parker is most famous for playing Davy Crockett (1955-56) and Daniel Boone (1964-70) on TV, popularizing the fad of coonskin caps. His appearances in movies include Old Yeller, and The Light in the Forest. He later had a 1,500-acre winery, and owned a resort.
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Parker Suzy
Suzy Parker was an actress whose first role was a cameo in Funny Face, and was the first $100/hr and $100,000/yr model. She was married to actor Bradford Dillman.
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Peabody Frederick
Frederick Peabody worked his way up in business, marketed Arrow shirts, and was chairman of the board of education in Sta Barbara. He donated a stadium to the high school, and land for Peabody Charter School.
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