Dorothy Page Emerson; Staged Antique Shows

Dorothy Page Emerson, 92, doyenne of antique shows for more than 30 years. Born in Oklahoma when it was an Indian territory, Emerson spent her early adulthood as a homemaker in Chicago. She became interested in antiques after moving to Los Angeles in the late 1950s. In 1959, she took over an antique show operation started by Helen and Gordon Pascal in the Pan Pacific Auditorium. For three decades, Emerson staged three antique shows a year at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, two at Cal State Northridge and another at the Orange County Fairgrounds. One of her frequent exhibitors was the entertainer Liberace, who once had owned an antique shop. On April 27 in Los Angeles of pneumonia.