I have been reading about Alma Spreckles since I went to the Palace of Legion of Honor last weekend to view the fabulous exibit of Faberge eggs, Tiffany glass and jewlery and Lalique glass. The exibit was SO exquisite. Beyond my wildest dreams.

Alma Spreckles was the force behind the building of the Palace of Legion of Honor..and the funding for many of its works. She was married to the heir of Spreckles sugar fortune.

BUT she started off as a poor girl. From the book..

"age 14, Alma quit school to work full-time for the family business. Meanwhile, she had developed a love of art and enrolled in the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art to study painting. While there, she earned money by being a nude model. Now
flush she became popular around town, and found herself intimately involved with a miner named Charlie Anderson. After their relationship deteriorated, she gained a bit of notoriety for having successfully sued him for "personal defloweration".

Don't you LOVE that?? She sued the guy for taking her viginity!

If you want to read more about this very interesting woman you can google her or buy the book "Big Alma" at Amazon

• The Good Old Days - siobhan 03:21:42 04/25/2009 (8)
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