Cohn, Nudie, 1902-1984

Biography / Administrative History

Nudie Cohn (Nuta Kotlyarenko) was born in Kiev, Russia, in 1903. He immigrated to the United States when he was 11 years old. Early in his career, he worked as a tailor in Brooklyn and spent time making lingerie for showgirls in New York. After numerous financially difficult years in New York, he and his wife Bobbie Cohn moved to North Hollywood, California in 1939. He opened Nudie's Rodeo Tailors Inc. in 1949 at the corner of Victory and Vineland Streets in North Hollywood. In 1963, he moved his shop to Lankershim Boulevard where it remained until Bobbie Cohn closed down the store in September of 1994. Nudie died in 1984, at the age of 81.

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