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At age 87, MAE WEST suffered a series of strokes which finally resulted in her death on 22 November 1980 in Hollywood, California. 
• • The actress took her final breaths quietly in her Hollywood apartment (Ravenswood). Private services [conducted by Dr. Lloyd Ogilvie and attended by about 100 close friends and family] were held in the Old North Church at Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills.
• • Her eulogy, written by Kevin Thomas and delivered by producer Ross Hunter, concluded: “Mae West always said that no one was ever to feel sorry for her, and she would not want anyone to start now. Mae West figured that in one way or another she would live forever. And she probably will.”
• • Entombment was in the West family mausoleum at Cypress Hills Abbey in Brooklyn, New York.
• • Cause of death: Complications from stroke
• • Burial: Cypress Hills Cemetery
• • Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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• • MAE WEST was born, she has often said, "on a cool night in a hot month" in Bushwick.
• • Since several solid biographies have been written about her, many Mae-mavens know this already. Therefore, it is unsettling, disappointing, and irritating when a Kings County newspaper has managed to get the basic facts wrong for several years in a row.
• • Brooklyn's Error-Prone Columnist Vernon Parker • • • • Fortunately, one of two things has just occurred. Either (a.) Vernon Parker accidentally collided with the truth about Mae West's birthplace on the MAE WEST BLOG or (b.) a few of her fed-up fans notified the Brooklyn Eagle's error-prone history columnist.
• • The Brooklyn Eagle's bylined columnist Vernon Parker [Email: history@brooklyneagle.net] had offered truly annoying poppycock to his readership in a long-running section — — "On This Day in History: AUGUST 17" — — during this month as well as in past years.
• • Previously on Mae's birthday, Vernon Parker had steamed into his first paragraph like this: Mae West was born in Brooklyn on August 17, 1893. That she was born in Brooklyn, there is no doubt — — but exactly where is a subject of controversy. Even in her biography, she simply said “I was born on a respectable street in Brooklyn.” It is almost a certainty that she was born in the Greenpoint section at 184 Franklin Avenue, which would be the Astral Apartments. Another controversial question is when. Mae always claimed the year as 1893 — — but there are those who have calculated the year to be more like 1888. ...
• • Although Vernon Parker continues to misstate Matilda's birthyear as 1875 (instead of 1870), he has dropped some silly statements and amended others. Vernon Parker's column now states that Mae was born in Bushwick. Applause! Though his footnote does not thank the MAE WEST BLOG, it does indicate his revision. To wit, "CORRECTION: This article initially stated that Mae West was born at 184 Franklin Avenue in Greenpoint," writes Vernon Parker.
• • Obviously, two minutes of primary research at the venerable Brooklyn Historical Society, the Brooklyn Public Library, or the Brooklyn City Directory would give Vernon Parker and other local news people the exact street address. So would a peek into a good full-length biography on Mae West.
• • Oh, the alkaline tang one gets from published piffle. Why do some columnists continue to be careless unless they get a pie in the face? And why do newspapers no longer employ fact checkers?
• • The Brooklyn Eagle was established in The City of Brooklyn before Mae was born.
• • Feel free to read and/ or contact the Brooklyn Eagle at 30 Henry Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201; email: publisher@BrooklynEagle.net, edit@BrooklynEagle.net; Tel 718-422-7400.• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/________
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On 17 August 1893 MAE WEST was born in her parents' bedroom — — in Bushwick. The young Mom-to-be [born December 1870] and Dad-to-be [born March 1866], wed on 19 January 1889, had gone to a hospital for the birth of their firstborn child Katie, who entered their world in August 1891 but who, most unfortunately, died in infancy. Perhaps this is why the couple opted for a midwife and a home delivery when little Mary Jane West was due. 
• • Since several solid biographies have been written about her, many Mae-mavens know this already. Therefore, it is unsettling when a Kings County newspaper manages to get basic facts wrong.
• • For example, how many mistakes can a Brooklyn Eagle columnist make in one bio-note? Ah, brave new world that has such people in it.
• • The Brooklyn Eagle's bylined columnist Vernon Parker [Email: history@brooklyneagle.net] offered this claptrap to his readership in a long-running section, "On This Day in History: AUGUST 17" — —
• • Vernon Parker slides into his first paragraph like this: Mae West was born in Brooklyn on August 17, 1893. That she was born in Brooklyn, there is no doubt — — but exactly where is a subject of controversy. Even in her biography, she simply said “I was born on a respectable street in Brooklyn.” It is almost a certainty that she was born in the Greenpoint section at 184 Franklin Avenue, which would be the Astral Apartments. Another controversial question is when. Mae always claimed the year as 1893 — — but there are those who have calculated the year to be more like 1888. ...
• • Let's look more closely at that suspicious phrase "more like 1888."
• • In his final paragraph, Vernon Parker misstates Matilda's birthyear as 1875 (instead of 1870), indicating he is challenged by simple arithmetic. Following Vernon Parker's logic, if Matilda had been born in 1875, and if Mae had been born in 1888, then Tillie would have given birth to Mae at age 13, and her firstborn would have come along when she was 11, and she would have wed Jack West as a nine-year-old. Of course, none of this is so, Vernon.
• • Examine his first paragraph again. It is, in fact, a certainty that Mae was not born on Franklin Street nor anywhere else in Greenpoint.
• • Two minutes of primary research at the venerable Brooklyn Historical Society or the Brooklyn Public Library would give Vernon Parker the exact street address. So would a peek into a good full-length biography on Mae West.
• • Why are columnists so careless? And why do newspapers print misinformation?
• • The Brooklyn Eagle welcomes letters • • • • Feel free to contact the Brooklyn Eagle at 30 Henry Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201; email: publisher@BrooklynEagle.net, edit@BrooklynEagle.net; Tel 718-422-7400.• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/________
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Though MAE WEST spent years in Brooklyn, there is no proof she ever lived on Franklin Avenue, a thoroughfare situated in the Greenpoint section of Kings County. And though primary sources have shown where John and Matilda West were living when their feisty little daughter was born at home — — the delivery assisted by a mid-wife "on a cool night in a hot month" — — reporters keep getting it wrong and spreading misinformation that bobbleheads will copy and paste.
• • Let's do the math. Since Mae West started life in August 1893, publications and writers have had over 115 years to nail down her birthplace, eh?
• • Vernon Parker reminds us that Greenpoint was designated as an historic district in 1982, the area where Charles Pratt’s Astral Oil Works refined kerosene. "One point of interest in Greenpoint today is the Astral Apartments at 184 Franklin Avenue, originally built to house workers from Pratt’s Astral Oil (and where it is believed that screen star Mae West was born in 1893)," writes columnist Vernon Parker in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle [located at 30 Henry Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 — www.brooklyneagle.com —] on 14 September 2009.
• • Wrong, false, and incorrect. Moreover, Mae West was not born anywhere in Greenpoint.
• • Sheesh, fellas! Don't make us come down there.
• • The Brooklyn Daily Eagle can be reached at 718-422-7400.• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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There are already quite enough factual errors about MAE WEST nesting in obscure, out-of-print publications. So do we need more mistakes being passed around the Internet, ready for the copy-and-paste set?
• • The Brooklyn Eagle, a newspaper that often inspires affection, let down the home team this week. One of their regular columns is laced with incorrect information.
• • Without checking the information first, columnist David Weiss states: Evidently not finding a lot to say about Greenpoint, the editors of the 1939 WPA Guide to New York City in writing the area’s history came up with the fact it was “the birthplace of Mae West.”
• • Yikes! Perhaps the fuzzy logic is, even if the WPA Guide published a faulty detail, then it's all right to reprint it — — unchallenged and uncorrected. Maybe the Brooklyn eagle-eyed fact-checkers are already on vacation, enjoying the beaches of Suffolk County or some Long Island surf and turf.
• • In times past, the copyediting staff held sway at a publication, touching up small parts of the text in case a stray piffle or two might be in need of righting before it left the house. For the record, Brooklynite Mae West was not born in Greenpoint. It is as annoying as that Kings County hash house with their absurd claims that Mae West was "born upstairs." Sheesh. Hire a copy editor, will ya?
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
— — Source for the error: — —
• • Column: "FROM THE BROOKLYN AERIE: A Weekly Column of Trivia and Observations"
• • Byline: David Ansel Weiss | Email: edit@brooklyneagle.net
• • Published in: The Brooklyn Eagle — — www.brooklyneagle.net
• • Published on: 24 June 2009
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Raise your hand if you have an Arby's tumbler imprinted with the face of MAE WEST?
• • The roast beef sandwich chain, based in Georgia, is claiming to have sealed a juicy deal on their first Kings County outpost.
• • The fast food franchise will take top shelf space on Fulton Street inside the landmark that once hosted the venerable Gage & Tollner, where Mae West used to dine. Former patrons of Gage & Tollner were frequently high-fliers [think "Diamond Jim" Brady] along with colorful entertainers such as Jimmy Durante.
• • In 1879, a decade before Battling Jack West and Tillie Delker took their wedding vows, Charles Gage decided it was time to open an "eating house" in Brooklyn at 303 Fulton Street. By 1892, a year before Mae West was born, Gage & Tollner relaunched their dining saloon at 372—374 Fulton Street — — in a brownstone built in 1875 (before the district became commercial).
• • It seems odd to think of fast food served in an historic gaslight-era rowhouse that once boasted a prestigious steakhouse catering to swells and stars. But Raymond Chera, a Brooklyn-based franchisee, insisted that its gas lamps and wall-length mirrors will survive the dramatic transformation. “We’re keeping everything in place, and anything we move in will be non-permanent and easy to move out,” said Chera. “It will probably be the most beautiful Arby’s ever.”
• • But will the Mae West etched glassware return to Arby's? Stay tuned.• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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