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True Crime: 1957

Chicago. "1/25/57 Grimes case -- Mrs. Minnie Duros." We'll let the Shorpy Detective Squad fill in the blanks. 4x5 acetate negative. View full size.

Chicago. "1/25/57 Grimes case -- Mrs. Minnie Duros." We'll let the Shorpy Detective Squad fill in the blanks. 4x5 acetate negative. View full size.

 

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Ladies of a certain age

Seems like around the era of the 1900's through the 60's & 70's, older ladies all looked very similar, i.e. Minnie Duros, Mrs. Bottomly (from Stivers Elem. previous picture), Andy Griffith's Aunt Bee, and everybody's grandmother. It is almost impossible to tell them apart. This hairnet Minnie is wearing kept her hair in place but is just something younger ladies did not wear (unless they worked in food service) and was a dead giveaway that they've reached the point of accepting their maturity and there is no going back, even though the dreaded outline around her face looked like her scalp was stitched on. Today we have Raquel Welch, Sophia Loren, Joan Collins and others who are in their 70's and 80's and still don't look like grandmothers, even if they are. My neighbor is 80 yrs. old, a GREAT grandmother, is named Bambi and walks around in tank tops and short shorts. I'm not sure which is the better way to go.

Chicago cold case

According to various Web articles, the Grimes case, still unsolved, involved the murders of two sisters who had gone to see an Elvis movie.

The woman shown was the co-owner of a restaurant, and she claimed to have seen the girls after the movie in the company of a former dishwasher at her restaurant, the D&L.

Here's a Wikipedia article on what some consider to be Chicago's most famous unsolved mystery.

Unsolved murder

Minnie Duros was co-owner of the D&L Restaurant where Patricia Grimes, 13, and sister Barbara, 15, of Chicago, probably ate their last meal. They stopped at the restaurant after seeing Elvis Presley's movie "Love Me Tender" for the eleventh time. Minnie positively identified the two girls to police investigating their tragic murder, possibly by Elvis lookalike Bennie Bedwell, a drifter who did dishes at her restaurant in exchange for food.

The murder, alas, was never solved.

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