They were helping the war effort as many of the watches were used by soldiers overseas. The work paid up to three times more than any other factory job, offering the painters freedoms they hadn’t had before. Radium Brand Butter, anyone?ĭuring WWI, watch factories employed thousands of women to paint glowing numbers on dial faces. Radium jockstraps, face cream, cigarettes. Radium laced products were popular as tonics, even items that didn’t contain the material would use the name for a sheen of quality. It could also excite the blood and give a healthy glow to the cheeks, making people think it could improve health because of that rosy tinge. It was known to be able to destroy tissue and had been used soon after its discovery to fight cancer. Radium had been discovered, studied and named by Marie Curie in 1898. The reason for this eventual gnarliness? Radioactive paint. I’ll warn you when it gets a little gnarly, in case some readers want to skip the details. As a heads up, there is some brief disturbing content in this story. I’m excited anytime I see someone mention it as it’s such an important part of American history, labor rights, and material safety. It’s a story that hasn’t been well known but has been slowly gaining public interest. So I mentioned the Radium Girls in my last post on paint toxicity.
In the summer we get shrimp tacos at Cuernavaca and take them down to the beach.Just in time for Halloween, here’s an entirely true scary story. In the evenings, I like to have friends over for dinner or head out to some of our favorite local spots. Some weeks take me to downtown Los Angeles (a two-hour drive) where my manufacturer is, and other weeks I’m writing a lot for my copywriting clients. Once the kids are at school, I zoom in to my studio in downtown Santa Barbara, do a little meditation to focus my mind, and dive into whatever projects are pressing that week. When we get back to the house, it’s a mad rush to wake up her sisters, get everyone dressed and ready for school and pack lunches. My daughter Clementine and I have a ritual of a morning walk through the neighborhood, holding hands. I’m an early riser, and usually wake up as the 6 am mission bells ring.
What does a typical day look like for you? I also cannot live without a really good garlic press. The Danish pans create the most even heat, and I also like them as objects. The knives are sentimental, but also handsome. My mother’s good German knives, and her Danish enamel pots and pans. Kitchen Routines and Tried-and-True Tools What are your must-have kitchen tools? We often drag our friends with us to the lounge and savor the colors of the sunset.
Radium dress portable#
On summer evenings, my daughters and I fill our rickety beach wagon with blankets and a portable supper and we roll on down to the rose gardens. The old church tower’s bells ring twice a day - it’s heavenly! If you close your eyes, you are in Santiago de Compostela. I love where my house is, and the specific sounds we are privy to. Coming back to California was a homecoming for me on multiple levels. I never felt at home there, despite the cool people and creative scene (and more affordable real estate).
In my thirties, I got married and moved to the Chicago suburbs. My twenties were peripatetic: spent in New York, London, and San Francisco where I worked in architecture and urban planning. But Santa Barbara was always more architecturally and culturally alluring to me. I am a native of Santa Cruz, a similar type of beach town with a university and a surf culture.
My family moved to Santa Barbara in 2017.
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