How would you define

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How would you define popular culture?
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Popular Culture noun Contemporary lifestyle
and items that are well known and generally
accepted, cultural patterns that are widespread
within a population also called pop culture
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What do we mean by the term mover and shaker?
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mover and shaker noun A person who wields
power and influence in a particular activity or
field, as in, He's one of the movers and shakers
in the art world.
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Who are movers and shakers in American modern
popular culture?
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How are movers and shakers marketed in todays
culture as compared to past history?
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Movers and Shakers
make Frank Millers Mission Inn a favorite
destination
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Who were some of these movers and shakers who
were these men and women who made the Mission Inn
a favorite place to be?
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They were social activists
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Booker T. Washington, former slave and founder of
the Tuskegee Institute of Alabama, and Frank
Miller, founder of the Mission Inn, look out over
the valley from the top of Mount Rubidoux, in
March 1914
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Booker T. Washington died on November 13, 1915 at
the age of 59 after making a lasting impression
on the citizens of Riverside. Memorial services
were held on November 17, 1915 in the Music Room
of the Mission Inn.
In April 2004, in cooperation with the Historic
Mission Inn Corporation and Inn owner Duane
Roberts, the Black Voice Foundation unveiled a
bust of Washington near the entrance to the
Mission Inn. Several direct descendents of the
educator were in attendance.
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Elbert Hubbard, publisher, author, and founder of
the Roycroft Inn in East Aurora, New York in
1894. After visiting his friend, Frank Miller,
Hubbard wrote two small booklets about the
Mission Inn.
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Included among the writings in this book is a
letter from former Stanford University President,
David Starr Jordan, who wrote the following to
Frank Miller in 1905 It has been left to you,
Frank Miller, a genuine Californian, to dream of
the hotel that ought to be, to turn your ideal
into plaster and stone, and give us in
mountain-belted Riverside, the one hotel which a
Californian can recognize as his own.
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The list of social leaders making stops to the
Mission Inn include Susan B. Anthony, one of the
major movers and shakers in the ratification of
the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the vote.
She not only lodged at the Glenwood Inn
(predecessor to the Mission Inn) on June 13,
1895, but was also entertained by her distant
cousin Frank Richardson, co-manager of the Inn
and brother-in-law of Frank Miller.
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Other visiting social leaders include
industrialists Andrew Carnegie, John D.
Rockefeller, Collis and Henry Huntington and
Henry Ford
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Social commentator and scientist Albert Einstein,
newspaper magnates Joseph Pulitzer and William
Randolph Hearst
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Pioneering historian Hubert H. Bancroft,
publisher Harry Chandler, crusading journalists
Ida Tarbell and Charles F. Lummis, disablities
advocate Helen Keller, and Sierra Club founder
John Muir
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They were leaders
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In the fall of 1909 during his first year as
president, William Howard Taft (the 27th
President of the United States 1909-1913),
traveled throughout the west and made several
stops in southern California. On October 12,
1909 he visited San Bernardino, Redlands, and
Riverside. In Riverside Taft traveled by car to
the top of Mt. Rubidoux where he unveiled a
plaque dedicated to Father Junipero Serra, the
Franciscan priest who starter the California
Missions. After a tour of Riverside, Taft
arrived at the Mission Inn.
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Earlier in the year Mission Inn owner Frank A.
Miller had a special chair made for Taft. The
chair was made extra large to accommodate
President, as he weighed in excess of 300 pounds.
According to one story, Taft was offended by the
large chair.
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In the spring of 1903 President Theodore
Roosevelt (1901-1909) traveled over 14,000 miles
during a two-month trip through the western
United States. The President visited 150 cities
and towns in 25 states and gave over 200
speeches. When he arrived in California by
train, the Presidents first stop was in Barstow.
He also stopped in Victorville, Redlands, San
Bernardino, and Riverside that day. When
Roosevelt arrived at the Mission Inn it was
nearly dark. Over 400 attended a banquet held in
his honor. The president stayed in a four-room
suite on the main floor of the hotel. The suite
would become known as the Presidential Suite.
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In the morning, on May 8th prior to leaving
Riverside, the President participated in a tree
planting ceremony. He transplanted one of
Riversides two famous parent navel orange trees
in the Courtyard of the Birds. These trees had
launched a citrus economy that made Riverside the
richest American county of the 1890s.
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In addition to Roosevelt, eight other United
States presidents are commemorated with oil
portraits, painted by Riverside artist Bonnie
Brown, that hang in the main lobby. Each visited
the Mission Inn or its predecessor, the Glenwood
Hotel.
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William McKinley registered at the Mission Inns
predecessor, the Glenwood Inn, while still an
Ohio Congressman in May, 1881. Benjamin Harrison,
while serving as the twenty-third president,
stopped outside the Glenwood Inn in April 23,
1891, and accepted a basket of flowers from Frank
Millers daughter, Allis.
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Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover also visited
the hotel while en route to choose a site for the
Boulder Dam in March 19, 1922. He was later
elected the thirty-first President.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy attended the Institute of
World Affairs at the Mission Inn in December of
1940 when only twenty-three years of age shortly
after authoring the best-selling book, Why
England Slept. He was elected the thirty-fifth
President nineteen years later.
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Following Richard Nixons graduation from
Whittier College and Duke University of Law,
Nixon returned to California to practice law. In
1938 he met schoolteacher Patricia Ryan and they
were married at the Mission Inn on June 21, 1940.
The wedding took place in the Presidential
Suite, named for President Theodore Roosevelt
following his May of 1903 stay in the Mission
Inn.
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The Nixons returned to the Mission Inn in 1952
when Nixon received a telegram notifying him that
he had been chosen to run as General Eisenhowers
vice president. A photograph was taken of them
in the Alhambra Suite of the hotel. On November
5, 1952 General Eisenhower was elected President
and Nixon, his vice-president. Eight days after
Nixons 40th birthday on January 21, 1953, Nixon
was sworn in as vice-president.
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Former President Gerald Ford, our thirty-eighth
chief executive, visited the hotel in March,
1998, over a decade after he vacated the Oval
Office.
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On March 5, 1952 Ronald Reagan married actress
Nancy Reagan at a church named the Little Brown
Church in the San Fernando Valley. Actor William
Holden and his wife, actress Brenda Marshall,
were the best man and matron of honor. Following
a small reception at the Holdens home, Ronald
and Nancy Reagan drove to Riverside where they
spent the first night of their honeymoon at the
Mission Inn.
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George W. Bush attended a fundraiser at the
Mission Inn in September 29, 1999, before winning
the 2000 election and becoming the 43rd
President. He returned in 2003.
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Vice Presidents Richard Cheney, Dan Quayle, and
Charles W. Fairbanks (served under T.R.
Roosevelt). Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day
OConner, California Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger, Congressman Newt Gingrich, L.A.
Mayor Richard Riordan, and North Carolina Senator
Elizabeth Dole have also visited.
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They were heroes
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Today 151 fliers or groups of fliers have been
honored with their wings attached to the wall.
On March 20, 1942 Eddie Rickenbacker was honored
at the Mission Inn. He was the 57th flier to
have the copper wings added to the Famous Fliers
Wall.
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They were foreign dignitaries
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In 1926 Prince Gustavas Adolphus of Sweden and
his wife, Louise, were on a yearlong trip of the
world. Their trip included the United States and
a visit to Riverside. The couple arrived in San
Bernardino on July 22, 1926. They had just come
from the Grand Canyon. Before arriving in
Riverside and the Mission Inn, the royal couple
toured Redlands and then onto Riverside in a
motorcade of automobiles. With the couple was
Californias governor, Friend Richardson. The
prince became the King of Sweden in 1950 and
served until his death in 1973.
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Crown Prince Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden,
Japanese Prince and Princess Kaya, Grand Duke of
Russia, Alexander Milhailovich Romanov, were
guests of the Mission Inn
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and they were entertainers
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Carrie Jacobs Bond was a famous composer who
lived from 1862 to 1946. Born in Wisconsin, she
began writing and publishing music in the 1890s.
She is credited with writing over 200 songs, of
which two of the most famous were I Love You
Truly and A Perfect Day. I Love You Truly
was a favorite song performed at weddings and was
used in several motion pictures. Bond made more
money composing songs than any other woman at the
time. She also had a music publishing company
named the The Bond Shop that she ran with her
son, Fredrick.
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Mrs. Bond was a frequent visitor to the Mission
Inn. On the 4th floor of the hotel in an area of
the Spanish Wing are a series of rooms known as
Authors Row. Each room is named for a different
author who visited the Mission Inn, including
Carrie Jacobs Bond. If there were a theme song
or song for the Mission Inn, it would be Bonds
A Perfect Day. In 1909 while visiting the
Mission Inn, she was inspired to write A Perfect
Day after watching a sunset on Mt. Rubidoux.
The song was published the following year. For
many, many years, the song was played on the
hotels carillon at the end of each day.
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On November 30, 1945 Bette Davis (born Ruth
Elizabeth Davis on April 5, 1908) married William
Grant Sherry in the St. Francis Chapel. The
couple had met at a home in Laguna Beach,
California. The home was named Villa Rockledge
and had been built by the owner of the Mission
Inn, Frank A. Miller.
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AND MANY MORE, INCLUDING
The Osbournes, Drew and Ethel Barrymore, Merle
Haggard, Betty White,
Barbara Streisand and James Brolin, Chuck Norris
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Oliver Stone, Tears for Fears, The Cast of
Extreme Makeover, Glen Campbell, Stephanie
Edwards, James Coco, Raquel Welch, Spencer Tracy,
Eddie Cantor
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Charles Boyer, Fess Parker, Clark Gable, Madame
Helena Modjeska, Judy Garland, Mary Pickford,
Jack Benny
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Cary Grant, Lillian Russell, Sarah Bernhardt,
Harry Houdini, W.C. Fields, and Ginger Rogers.
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What defines culture versus pop culture?