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3 unusual facts about Louis E. Crandall


Legend City

Originally conceived as an Old West theme park in the mold of Disneyland by Phoenix artist and advertising agency owner Louis E. Crandall, Legend City endured a series of closings, bankruptcies and ownership changes throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and was never a significant financial success.

Louis E. Crandall

Crandall was born July 27, 1929, in Mesa, Arizona, to Louis Packer Crandall and Louise Marie Crismon.

He is founder of both Legend City and the Crandall Historical Printing Museum, and he currently serves as president and CEO of the latter.


Denfeld Mountains

They were named for Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, Chief of Naval Operations and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1947–49), who helped in the planning and organization of Operation Highjump (1946–47) for which Byrd was leader.

Jimmy Hayes

Republican Louis E. "Woody" Jenkins of Baton Rouge and Democrat Mary Landrieu of New Orleans then advanced to the tightly contested general election, which Landrieu narrowly won.

Lewis Evans

Louis E. Atkinson (1841–1910), American physician, attorney and Republican politician

Louis E. Atkinson

He served as chairman of the United States Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury during the Fifty-first Congress.

Louis E. Boone

He owned the most extensive collection of Barbizon art in the United States, which is now part of the collection of the Mobile Museum of Art.

Louis E. Martin

Born in Shelbyville, Tennessee, to Dr. Louis E. Martin Sr. and Willa Martin, Louis Jr. grew up in Savannah, Georgia.

Originally recruited by R. Sargent Shriver, Martin joined the 1960 Presidential campaign of Senator John F. Kennedy.

Louis E. Newman

Louis E. Newman is the John M. and Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religious Studies, Humphrey Doermann Professor of Liberal Learning, and Director of the Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.

Louis E. Saavedra

For post-secondary education, Saavedra received two degrees from Eastern New Mexico University.

Louis E. Woods

In 1944, Wood also had the distinction of sending off to war a 42-year-old pilot named Charles Lindbergh.

Shortly after his return to the United States in August 1926, he was ordered to Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D.C., for duty in the Aviation Section of the Major General Commandant's Department.

Michael G. Crandall

Crandall was several times a visiting professor at the University of Paris, where he received an honorary doctorate in 1999.


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