The loss of Robert is of an indescribable magnitude. I miss him far more than I can say, and cannot truly grasp he is gone, even after over a week has passed now since his body was discovered. How lucky I was to have known this unique man — a model of integrity and master of distinctive fast and witty one-liners. The suddenness of his dying — for which no cause has yet been discovered — is all the more stunning to me: snatched away when he had so much work to do and many unfinished projects. My heart is aching. His mother died October 12th of last year and is father, Sol, mercifully died early yesterday morning. It would have been no life for Sol as the only remaining member of his immediate family. A memorial for Robert will be held nest month in Hollywood and we will post the information when it is available. Valerie Yaros, bereaved Hollywood Heritage board secretary.
I am shocked and saddened by this news. I first met Robert Nudelman in 2001 when I was making preparations for the Cinema Theatre Association (CTA-UK) visit I was planning to the cinemas & theatres of Los Angeles in October 2002. Robert assisted in making just about all the many contacts he knew in Hollywood theatres aware of our visit and arranged for our group to tour their buildings. He also led the group along Hollywood Bouevard, pointing out other historic buildings and telling stories of their past history.
Three years later, when I was co-director of the Theatre Historical Society of America (THSA) Conclave to Southern California, which we were planning for June 2005, Robert again pulled out all the stops to assist the group to gain access to the buildings. I also spent many hours with him, going through my visit notes that I had prepared for the previous CTA-UK visit, which I made available to THSA members. Robert was a wealth of information and offered to check the 160 page document page-by-page for corrections and additional information. It was a real pleasure working with him and tapping into his ‘vast mind of information’, something he really enjoyed doing was sharing with others.
Robert will be greatly missed by all who knew him and came into contact with him.
My hearing his name only now, he sounds like he was one heck of a great guy, while it’s tragic to read how he left this world at such a still young age. My only becoming familiar with who he was now, already I’m greatly missing him! He sounds like he was a master of the one aspect of historic theater restoration and preservation that I find very difficult if not impossible to stomach, the political end of things. And boy, do we need people such as that now more than ever or what? At the same time it is inspiring, heartening, to read of all the great things that this man did, his proving that what we so often think is impossible can be done. May you rest in peace, Mr. Nudelman, and your legacy become one that others will surely try to emulate.
The loss of Robert is of an indescribable magnitude. I miss him far more than I can say, and cannot truly grasp he is gone, even after over a week has passed now since his body was discovered. How lucky I was to have known this unique man — a model of integrity and master of distinctive fast and witty one-liners. The suddenness of his dying — for which no cause has yet been discovered — is all the more stunning to me: snatched away when he had so much work to do and many unfinished projects. My heart is aching. His mother died October 12th of last year and is father, Sol, mercifully died early yesterday morning. It would have been no life for Sol as the only remaining member of his immediate family. A memorial for Robert will be held nest month in Hollywood and we will post the information when it is available. Valerie Yaros, bereaved Hollywood Heritage board secretary.
I am shocked and saddened by this news. I first met Robert Nudelman in 2001 when I was making preparations for the Cinema Theatre Association (CTA-UK) visit I was planning to the cinemas & theatres of Los Angeles in October 2002. Robert assisted in making just about all the many contacts he knew in Hollywood theatres aware of our visit and arranged for our group to tour their buildings. He also led the group along Hollywood Bouevard, pointing out other historic buildings and telling stories of their past history.
Three years later, when I was co-director of the Theatre Historical Society of America (THSA) Conclave to Southern California, which we were planning for June 2005, Robert again pulled out all the stops to assist the group to gain access to the buildings. I also spent many hours with him, going through my visit notes that I had prepared for the previous CTA-UK visit, which I made available to THSA members. Robert was a wealth of information and offered to check the 160 page document page-by-page for corrections and additional information. It was a real pleasure working with him and tapping into his ‘vast mind of information’, something he really enjoyed doing was sharing with others.
Robert will be greatly missed by all who knew him and came into contact with him.
My hearing his name only now, he sounds like he was one heck of a great guy, while it’s tragic to read how he left this world at such a still young age. My only becoming familiar with who he was now, already I’m greatly missing him! He sounds like he was a master of the one aspect of historic theater restoration and preservation that I find very difficult if not impossible to stomach, the political end of things. And boy, do we need people such as that now more than ever or what? At the same time it is inspiring, heartening, to read of all the great things that this man did, his proving that what we so often think is impossible can be done. May you rest in peace, Mr. Nudelman, and your legacy become one that others will surely try to emulate.