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Try your hand at coming up with a winning caption!
Gorgeous Georgia
When Kay Keyser introduced his new vocalist (and future wife) as Gorgeous Georgia he was not just whistling Dixie. The press picked up on the sobriquet, and Gorgeous Georgia she was. Although I never got a chance to meet Georgia in person, 
I had several lovely chats with her on the phone, and she was as lively and gracious at 90 as she was beautiful. Fellow former John Robert Powers model Susann Shaw said of Georgia “she was the most loveable, beautiful woman I had ever met, as lovely inside as she was out, which is saying something.”
I will always be happy to know that my products featuring Gorgeous Georgia (totes, above, and sticky notes) gave her pleasure. With typical humor she told me how much she enjoyed seeing her face continue to pop up here and there, and she just hoped she never made an unexpected appearance in an ad for Viagra.
Georgia Carroll Keyser died on January 14, 2011. The world was a better place for the ninety years she spent with us.
Hasta luego!
Facebook fan Dina L. Salas recently asked whether we had any magnets featuring Latinas. Tristemente, no!
This design was once a magnet and a postcard:
Unfortunately, this was yet another case of me thinking I was totally hilarious… and nobody else agreeing. (Does anyone out there think this is at all funny?)
I suspect the model is no more Latina than I am… but I’m pretty sure that’s what the photographer was going for.
Dina suggested the caption “it is because of our Mothers that Latin women need therapy!” Hey – I’m Irish-Scottish, and it’s because of my mother that I need therapy. (Just kidding, Mom!)
I have an extremely hard time finding images from the 40s and 50s of women who don’t look exactly like June Cleaver. I did finally find a few African-American women, such as…
 oops! I spent the grocery money on shoes again... |
 you mess with the kitty, you feel the claws |
and thanks to gal Friday Amber Doe we have more coming in June (stay tuned!).
But so far no Latinas! I am looking, Dina, and I’m sure I will find some eventually. ¡Ojala!
(Ps. I apologize if I just massacred the language by trying to use my favorite word from high school Spanish!)
Ethnic Diversity
I have had so many requests over the years to please, please, please add a little ethnic diversity to my line. Since I work with found imagery, this has not been easy. Print media of the 30s, 40s, and 50s were maniacally devoted to promoting just one narrow ideal: the slim, cheerful, perfectly groomed, white dream-girl-slash-housewife.
Eleven years ago I did find three period images of African-American women, but I was reluctant to add them to the line until I could find more. Three just seemed so token. After eleven years of fruitless searching I decided to go ahead and add the first three, and trust that the world would bring me more images in due time.
Our first African-American ladies are just as slim, cheerful, and perfectly groomed as their Caucasian counterparts, but hey, one stereotype at a time!
June Cleaver, eat your heart out!
This January I feature African-American models on three magnets:
oops! I spent the grocery money on shoes again... |
 I believe the word you're searching for is 'divine' |
you mess with the kitty, you feel the claws |
