The store was a full-service men’s haberdashery with a barbershop and bookie upstairs. Among his clients were many movie stars and gangsters, his family said, including the Marx brothers and Mickey Cohen. [^11]
The Factor’s support of L.A.…9 Legrady, Miklos. Did Marcel Duchamp Pave the Way For Donald Trump? New Art Examiner, September, 2021. https://newartexaminer.net/did-duchamp-pave-the-way-for-donald-trump/
10 Asher, Betty M. Oral History Interview, 1980 June 30 and 1980 …
Gus Russo
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Gus Russo appears to be a historian or researcher documenting Los Angeles's postwar cultural underworld, particularly the intersection of organized crime, entertainment, and early modernism. The excerpts suggest he's being cited to establish how figures like "the Factor" (likely Jake Factor) connected disparate social worlds—gangsters, Hollywood celebrities, and avant-garde artists—illustrating how illicit economies and artistic patronage were entangled in mid-century LA. This matters for "Pandaemonium Architecture" as it complicates narratives about modernism's purity and shows how underground networks, criminal infrastructure, and institutional art were mutually constitutive rather than separate domains.
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