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"Mary Loos, in print dress and head scarf, holding shopping bag, with young Asian man weighing watermelon on hanging scale, with shelves of vegetables in background...Miss Mary Anita Loos, niece of Anita Loos, famous author of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" etc., between classes at Los Angeles Junior College where she is in 2nd yr....Miss Loos is shown buying vegetables for household of father, Dr. Clifford Loos, prom. Los Angeles physician. She is buying at one of the interesting Japanese-owned marts in center of Hollywood....circa 1930."


Mary Loos had a brief career as an actress...her first husband was the pulp author Richard Sale, together they wrote 20 produced screenplays....her father co-founded the Ross-Loos Medical Group, the country's first HMO.





Apparently, she had made an earlier stop at the El Adobe market.....





Hollywood Blvd. at N. Kingsley Drive......the "EL ADOBE" font style on the present-day signage appears unchanged from the typeface on the 1930 shopping bag.