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Bathing Beauty Pirates: 1924
Submitted by Ken on Thu, 05/24/2007 - 12:30pm.
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Jewell Pathe's Bathing Beauty Pirates capture Vitagraph Ships for "Captain Blood" in Balboa Beach, California, June 15, 1924. Photograph by M.F. Weaver. View full size
Iola again?
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Fri, 09/17/2010 - 11:50pm.
Isn't that Iola Swinnerton, of Washington, D.C. bathing contest fame, eleventh from the right? Her bathing costume is much, much nicer and more stylish. I wonder who put up the money for the train trip across the country?
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Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Mon, 03/24/2008 - 1:26pm.
Kids often served as cute "mascots" for these beauty contests.
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