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Stanford Graduate School of Business ( MBA; 1971) Occupation. Entrepreneur. Known for. Founder of Victoria's Secret. Spouse (s) Gaye Raymond (m. 1970s; div. 1990) Roy Larson Raymond (April 15, 1947 – August 26, 1993) [ 1] was an American businessman who founded the Victoria's Secret lingerie retail store in California in 1977. [ 2]
On August 26, 1993, Roy Raymond, the founder of Victoria's Secret, died after intentionally jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge at the age of 46. Last seen walking toward the bridge, Raymond's body was shortly thereafter washed up on a shoreline in Marin County; investigators concluded that he had killed himself by jumping from the bridge. [76]
Victoria's Secret is an American lingerie, clothing, and beauty retailer. Founded in 1977 by Roy and Gaye Raymond, [ 6][ 7] the company's five lingerie stores were sold to Les Wexner in 1982. [ 8] Wexner rapidly expanded into American shopping malls, growing the company into 350 stores nationally with sales of $1 billion by the early 1990s ...
The largest single reservoir in California is Shasta Lake, with a full volume of more than 4,552,000 acre-feet (5.615 km 3 ). Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Key. † denotes reservoir not entirely in California. ‡ denotes reservoir that is offstream or receives most of its water from a source not associated with its feeder stream (s).
135 ft (41 m) [ 1] 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. Camanche Reservoir is an artificial lake in the San Joaquin Valley in California in the United States, at the juncture of Amador, Calaveras, and San Joaquin counties. Its waters are impounded by Camanche Dam, which was completed in 1963.
Badwater Basin is an endorheic basin in Death Valley National Park, Death Valley, Inyo County, California, noted as the lowest point in North America and the United States, with a depth of 282 ft (86 m) below sea level. [ 1][ 2] Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous United States, is only 84.6 miles (136 km) to the northwest. [ 3]
Tulare Lake ( / tʊˈlɛəri / ⓘ) or Tache Lake ( Yokuts: Pah-áh-su, Pah-áh-sē) is a freshwater lake in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California, United States. Historically, Tulare Lake was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River. [ 2] For thousands of years, from the Paleolithic onward, Tulare Lake was a ...
The Eel River ( Wiyot: Wiya't; [6] Cahto: Taanchow; Northern Pomo: ch'idiyu) [7] is a major river, about 196 miles (315 km) long, in northwestern California. The river and its tributaries form the third-largest watershed entirely in California, draining a rugged area of 3,684 square miles (9,540 km 2) in five counties.