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And maybe Matern who had developed a bit of a reputation for building and writing about how to build 1950s-style homes, might have been a touch insulted when Bonnie handed him a picture of renowned Long Beach-based architect Edward Killingsworth’s “Spaulding Residence,” a mid-modern home Killingsworth designed for a client in Piedmont in the East Bay near Oakland. It remains the only residence Killingsworth designed outside of Southern California.
Price told Matern, “I want one like that.”
The house, at 1905 St. Louis Ave., was just a small portion of Bonnie’s empire on the hill. As owner of not just the Foothill, but the Hillside, another nightclub on Signal Hill, and Algiers Bar on First Street in Downtown Long Beach, she amassed enough money to purchase some 30 homes on Signal Hill.