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Article: Pradise found: the belongings of yesterday's stars turn into treasures at a former Catholic church.(Innovation)(Company overview)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- August 13, 2007
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NOT many businesses stock Liberace's chandeliers, Gloria Swanson's pink toilet and a pine table that belonged to Marlon Brando.
But Scavenger's Paradise, a salvage site and antique reliquary in North Hollywood, has all of those items and many others like them.
Gilliam Greyson, a former interior designer and Tennessee native who retains a charming drawl, is the treasure hunter behind the enterprise, which is tucked into an industrial district. The business is something of a quaint treasure itself, housed in a 7,500-square-foot 1920s-era Catholic church building that has had several incarnations, including stints as a clothing manufacturing outlet, ad ...