![]() department store, where he was the head window trimmer. Morton, who invented the display for the Weinstock, Lubin & Co. Frank Baum, Amy Reading has discovered that it was the work of Chas. Who was this woman? Where was the rest of her? Who were the window-gazers, staring at her fleshless body with such longing? And who engineered the display to attract all these passers-by? Although many have attributed the display in Sacramento to L. ![]() They crowded against the glass so forcefully the owners had to install iron bars to prevent the windows from shattering. Shoppers gathered on the sidewalk to marvel at the “vanishing lady,” gazing in awe as she disappeared and then reemerged. When she re-emerged, she wore a new millinery concoction. At regular intervals, the woman sank into the pedestal, and vanished. She jutted out her square jawbone, showing off an elaborately festooned head piece. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of OzĪt the turn of the twentieth century, in a department store window in Sacramento, the head, neck, and shoulders of a young woman floated, bodiless, above a pedestal. ![]() … they came to a big building, exactly in the middle of the City, which was the Palace of Oz, the Great Wizard.” – L. ![]() … Everyone seemed happy and contented and prosperous. Green candy and green pop-corn were offered for sale, as well as green shoes, green hats and green clothes of all sorts. “ Many shops stood in the street, and Dorothy saw that everything in them was green. ![]()
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