Tuesday Collector’s Sale/ Thursday, Friday, Saturday Davis Sale Of Lani Ball!

Remember we will have snacks and refreshments as well as our raffle at each sale. 

Please note we will have updated photos of both of these houses on Monday evening so stop back by then to check it out. It should be noted that each one of you who gets our weekly emails should have the website bookmarked on your computer so you can check back often on the website’s sale page to see dates, photos, updates and sale info when you need it.

Tuesday we are heading over to
[address removed for privacy]
Tuesday July 28th from 9am-4pm.
Fair pricing 9am-12noon
Half price 12noon-3pm
Boxlot pricing 3pm-4pm
Free and donation going at 4pm from driveway.
Bring boxes to shop or simply haul things off.
This is Mary Jayne’s humble abode and just filled with early collectibles, antiques, useful household, quilts, clothing, garage items, vintage glass, pottery, Disney, entire political collection of Nixon items including rare pins and some really great costume jewelry, artwork, toys, games, holiday decorations, music, electronics, office supplies, gently used furniture and lots of bedding and linens.
We hope you will join us for a fun day of treasure hunting at this sale.
Thursday July 30th from 9am-6pm
Friday 9am-6pm.
Saturday 7am-2pm.
[address removed for privacy]
Fair pricing all day Thursday 9am-6pm.
Half price Friday all day 9am-6pm.
Half price Saturday 7am-12noon then boxlot pricing $5 per box 12noon-2pm.
Free items will be given from the driveway and garage on
Saturday at 2 pm so bring plenty of boxes!

We invite you over to the famous Lani Ball’s House in Davis.
We have a write up about her below the sale information for those of you who would like to know more about this delightful character.
Also a link to a great interview Lani did in Yosemite
at my favorite restaurant and hotel…The Awhanee Hotel

About the sale; needless to say everything there is fabulous because it was chosen by Lani.

The textiles, clothing, artwork, rugs, furniture, decor, garden art, pots, plants, jewelry, and everything she owned was just top-notch and fantastic. You will LOVE this sale not just because I say you will, but trust me, you just will. This will be a delightful day in memory of a delightful lady and you will be glad you came over to Davis to see what she had collected.

Those of you who like a project or two, Lani had TWO rooms full of crafts, sewing, art supplies, do-dads and just great fun lady stuff to dig through. Her friends called her a hoarder…I can her an endless romantic;
always hoping and planning for more hands, more time, more energy and more opportunity to finish what she started…and who in the lot of us has not hoped or prayed for that?!?

Lani Ball, stage manager; dies at 74

Theatrical stage manager on Broadway, for touring companies and international

corporate events, Lani Ball died from complications of a heart attack in Davis, CA.,

on June 27, 2015. She was 74.

Ms. Ball was born on Christmas Day, 1940, in Honolulu (hence her name, inspired by

her parents’ wedding song, “Sweet Leilani, Heavenly Flower”). The family relocated to

Sacramento, and Lani attended local schools including Sierra Elementary and

McClatchy Senior High, where she developed interest in the theatre. Attending San

Francisco State University, she majored in theatre with a concentration on acting, but

soon discovered a talent for stage management, and pursued that path.

She worked at the San Francisco Actors Workshop in the ’60s, under the direction of

Jules Irving and Herbert Blau. After a few years there, the company was invited to

create a repertory theatre program for the new Vivian Beaumont Theatre at New York’s

Lincoln Center. Lani was among the 25 company members chosen for the relocation.

She eventually became one of the company’s lead stage managers, which led to other

work on Broadway starting in the late ’60s through the ’80s, most notably the original

production of “HAIR,” “Cyrano the Musical” starring Christopher Plummer, and the

revival of “Sweet Charity” with Debbie Allen. This was one of the last productions

director/choreographer Bob Fosse worked on before he died in 1987.

Lani also served as stage manager for touring productions of “A Chorus Line,” “Anything

Goes,” and “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” and was one of the stage managers during the five-year

run of “The Phantom of the Opera” at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles.

In 1968, Lani stage-managed the five summer repertory productions of the original

California Shakespeare Festival in Los Gatos, CA. She also served as assistant to

Elizabeth Huddle, Artistic Director of the Portland Center Stage in Oregon; Lani and Liz

had known each other since high school, and worked together at SFSU, the Actors

Workshop, and at CSF.

In her later years, Ms. Ball worked as coordinator and stage manager of Fortune 500

corporation events throughout the United States and abroad. She retired and bought a

home in Davis in 2005, where she lived until her death.

Lani has no survivors, except for her hundreds of friends and acquaintances.

shared by her loving friends

 

We thank you for your patronage and also the read.
Jen and crew 

Tuesday on Conifer

Thursday/Friday/Saturday in Davis for Lani Ball more photos to come

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