The May Department Stores Company

So mom at Christmas time, I think kids wrote free, but mom at Christmas time took us to downtown LA and right there near 07th and Broadway and Spring Street.

They had big department stores like May Company, the Bullocks, really nice ones.

Anyways, they would have in the window all these puppets going on, little trains outside.

And we just thought we were the luckiest kids to see all this stuff and be part of it.

Oh, I'm sure there isn't, Jack.

I saw her yesterday in the stocking department of the May Company.

The May Company? But Mary doesn't work there anymore.

No, but I do.

I've got to eat, you know.

That was that.

"Now, where else would you, uh, use it?" "Well, in the May lot." The May has a, a huge, big parking lot, the May Company.

"I'll go over there and use it." "Well, you have to have permission." "All right.

Go and call the May Company and ask for permission." So he went to the, uh, phone, called the May Company, and they said, "No, we're open seven days a week, and so we cannot allow a minibike in our parking lot, for we have to use it for our customers seven days a week." So when he got that, he went to his room for a half an hour.

When he came out, he said, "I have made the decision.

I don't really want a minibike at all." And then the mother said, "You know how often I've done the same thing?" I thought, really, I want this, really want this.

I've got ten answers to that one.

Anyone will wish to send me back to the May Company.

You miss a few more lines and you'll go back to the

May

I was on the cover of nothing.

I was a local model that was in the Sunday newspaper, you know, like up with the sale for the little shorts for May Company.

Did you meet him? I told everybody at school I did.

Ah.

But there is, of course, the possibility that Linda is still alive.

Lydia Marano, Linda's employer at the bookstore and one of the recipients of the Paris postcards, testified that over the years following the couple's disappearance, she received a phone call from the May Department Stores Company asking for a job reference for Linda Mayfield, which is Linda's maiden name, and then another call asking for a credit reference for Linda Sophus.

If the claim is true, was this part of a ruse conducted by John's killer to make it seem as though Linda was still alive? Or was Linda out there somewhere attempting to start a new life and had put her past job at the bookstore on a resume? If Linda willingly disappeared and has been in hiding all these years, then one would assume she was complicit in her husband's death.

But during the trial, every single witness who knew the couple, whether it be family, friends, neighbors, or employers, each insisted that they never sensed any stress or conflict between John and Linda.

Both are hilly, working-class, and middle-class Catholic parishes and craftsmen bungalows.

The Eagle Rock Plaza on Colorado Boulevard opened in 1973, an enclosed mall with Sears and May Company, and it was considered safe.

Two girls got on a bus there on a Sunday afternoon in November of 1977 and never got home.

Mount Washington rises above Highland Park to the south and Glassville Park is on its west slope.

Classic.

It wasn't until they crossed paths again a few years later in Los Angeles, where they She was actually working as a hosiery salesgirl at a May Company department store that they finally connected.

They married in 1927.

So we have a hosiery salesgirl with no acting background whatsoever.

You know, it's possible that I did get a pair.

They would have sold it probably over at the mall at May Company or Lazarus, one of the department stores that was around at the time.

And it's possible I saved up and had a pair of Jordache.

But in my head, I didn't have any Jordache.