Maybelline Building in 1934 withe it’s executives, family and employees. Don’t you love the Maybelline truck?

Executive Secretary, Dorothy Molander standing at the Maybelline Building entrance in the 1940’s.

This is the main entrance of the (old) Maybelline Building on Ridge Avenue in Chicago. the script “M” cast into the concrete above the entrance–standing, of course, for Maybelline. 

The four sets of windows on the second floor were the four offices on “Executive Row.” They now have curtains, so they’ve probably been converted to apartments. The glass brick wall runs along the production area as it existed in the ’60s. 

The building to the left is a nursing home, built since the Maybelline days. 

Thank you to Harris A Neil Jr. for sending me the recent pictures of the Maybelline Building. Harris worked for the Maybelline Company from 1959 to 1968. I will be sharing his memories on my Blog over the coming weeks.