World War II Posters... OT?

Here u go, the Dames with the MOST !!!

Rat

 

Interesting that you post pin ups. Here is America's first pin up and how she was discovered as a WOW.

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Marilyn Monroe, before she became a Hollywood star, appeared on the cover of ‘Yank’ magazine while working in a Burbank airplane factory, August 1945.
One of the “Rosies” during the WWII years was none other than Marilyn Monroe – well before she became “Marilyn the Hollywood star,” however. The August 2, 1945 issue of Yank magazine contained an article about women contributing to the war effort at home. The magazine’s cover for that issue included a photo of a woman holding a propeller blade at a factory work bench. The woman’s name was Norma Jean Dougherty, as Marilyn was then married to Merchant Marine seaman James Dougherty. The photo was taken at the assembly line of the Radio Plane munitions factory in Burbank, California. Monroe and Dougherty had married in Los Angeles in June 1942. In 1943, after Dougherty joined the U.S. Merchant Marine and was then sent overseas in 1944, Monroe started work at the Radioplane plant, where she was “discovered.” She then moved out of her mother-in-law’s home, stopped writing to her husband, and filed for divorce in Las Vegas, which was granted in September 1946. James Dougherty, meanwhile, returned from the war, married a new wife in 1947, and joined the Los Angeles Police Department. In 1950, he was one of the police officers who held back the crowd at the premiere of Monroe’s movie, The Asphalt Jungle. See also at this website, a short story about Elton John’s tribute song to Monroe, “Candle in the Wind.”
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O/t.

 

O/T???..... Maybe not.....

 

Btt

 

This is too cool, the lettering and graphics on this stuff is awesome, this pre TV media is at the height of its game, the colors and shapes thats all lost now people are so visually simple minded from years of Television and ad print from photography. This is very on topic for lettering our rides, how about more girls on the equipment too.

 

This thread is great. Its awesome to get a look at america when it was at its best, before everyone was scared of hurting everyone elses feelings and all that crap. Great thread, thanks for starting it and all the posts!