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Madonna of the Sandbags: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 05/29/2007 - 1:40pm.
"Noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company." October 1942. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer for the Office of War Information.
Sandra's Mom
Submitted by Aging Hipster on Sun, 07/29/2007 - 11:32am.
Yes, looks a lot like Sandra Bullock's mom.
Looks like Kate Beckinsale
Submitted by padieg on Fri, 06/01/2007 - 12:04pm.
Looks like Kate Beckinsale in Pearl Harbor...
I was wrong
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Thu, 05/31/2007 - 10:19am.
It appears there *were* pretty girls back then. I guess they just stayed out of the beach beauties contests...
Sandy Bullock is still young enought for me!
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Thu, 05/31/2007 - 1:45am.
Self-explanatory, but true.
Star Quality
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Wed, 05/30/2007 - 11:02am.
She looks like a young Sandra Bullock
Pretty girl 2
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Wed, 05/30/2007 - 7:12am.
She has a tear on her sleeve, her button holes are worn
but she dressed up her outfit with the brooch, she must have had class, she was beautiful, I bet some G.I. had her picture on him in the war.
[That was dirt on the transparency, not a rip in her sleeve. Now gone. - Dave]
Beautiful young woman, and
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Tue, 05/29/2007 - 11:11pm.
Beautiful young woman, and if she's still alive today, she's in her 80's, wrinkled and old. Wonder what happened during those in-between decades.
pretty girl
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Tue, 05/29/2007 - 7:10pm.
is that a pencil in her ear?
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