twintubdexter
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O'Keefe & Merritt Contempo...the guys in the service department where I worked as a kid called them "All Grief & No Merit"
2 Stoves in LA
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twintubdexter
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Pink, not my favorite. Reminds me of the Playmate Pink Ford Pinto. The controls are nice. Is this 1950's like the ad says ?
Beautiful pics--Thanks
No, the GE range is early 60s, just before P7 was introduced across the line. I guess they think it is worth a lot because it is pink; maybe yes & maybe no.
No, the GE range is early 60s, just before P7 was introduced across the line. I guess they think it is worth a lot because it is pink; maybe yes & maybe no.
danemodsandy
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Isn't That GE....
....The rare Pepto-Bismol Edition?
* ducks and runs *
....The rare Pepto-Bismol Edition?
* ducks and runs *
norgeway
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That GE
Is drop dead georgeous! I love Mamie Pink!
Is drop dead georgeous! I love Mamie Pink!
twintubdexter
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"Mamie" as in Van Doren or Eisenhower? They're easily confused you know.
No need for front seat airbags in Miss Van Doren's car...
No need for front seat airbags in Miss Van Doren's car...
lotsosudz
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Someone needs to speak to that girl!
I was always taught from a young age, that it was not polite to point! :.) Sorry guy's, I just couldn't help myself! I hope she wasn't a jogger!
Hug,
David
I was always taught from a young age, that it was not polite to point! :.) Sorry guy's, I just couldn't help myself! I hope she wasn't a jogger!
Hug,
David
That profile reminds me of the bullets on the front of Cadillac bumpers when I was young.
danemodsandy
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You're Almost Right, Tom!
In their day, those bullets on 1950s Cadillac bumpers were referred to colloquially as "Dagmars."
This referred to TV hostess Dagmar, who, like Cher, used just one name, though she was born Virginia Ruth Egnor in Yawkey, WV. She was a huge sensation on early television, being a frequent guest star on other peoples' shows and finally getting her own, titled Dagmar's Canteen. The small amount of footage I've seen of her reminds me of Anna Nicole Smith, except that Dagmar and nobody else ran Dagmar's career.
At any rate, the photo below will show you why the Cadillac protuberances reminded folks of Dagmar:[this post was last edited: 8/16/2013-20:50]
In their day, those bullets on 1950s Cadillac bumpers were referred to colloquially as "Dagmars."
This referred to TV hostess Dagmar, who, like Cher, used just one name, though she was born Virginia Ruth Egnor in Yawkey, WV. She was a huge sensation on early television, being a frequent guest star on other peoples' shows and finally getting her own, titled Dagmar's Canteen. The small amount of footage I've seen of her reminds me of Anna Nicole Smith, except that Dagmar and nobody else ran Dagmar's career.
At any rate, the photo below will show you why the Cadillac protuberances reminded folks of Dagmar:[this post was last edited: 8/16/2013-20:50]
We did not know names and it would be years before we heard of Dagmar, Jayne Mansfield or Mamie Van Doren. The bullets just looked like stuffed Bruesten halten (sorry, I don't have an umlaut).
danemodsandy
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I Worked With Van Doren.....
....Back in my younger days, when I spent my high-school summers as an apprentice with Atlanta's Theatre of the Stars *. In 1970, she played the lead, Hedy La Rue, in that year's production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, with Bob Cummings as Mr. Biggley. At the time, Van Doren looked almost exactly like Pamela Anderson does today.
I won't say she's not a bombshell in person - because she is - but she is a more modest and pleasant and intelligent person than her image (to say nothing of her jaw-dropping autobiography) would suggest. And she's still around.
* At the time, I thought I wanted to be an actor. Three seasons with TOTS cured me but good. My loss was the theatre's gain, I assure you.
....Back in my younger days, when I spent my high-school summers as an apprentice with Atlanta's Theatre of the Stars *. In 1970, she played the lead, Hedy La Rue, in that year's production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, with Bob Cummings as Mr. Biggley. At the time, Van Doren looked almost exactly like Pamela Anderson does today.
I won't say she's not a bombshell in person - because she is - but she is a more modest and pleasant and intelligent person than her image (to say nothing of her jaw-dropping autobiography) would suggest. And she's still around.
* At the time, I thought I wanted to be an actor. Three seasons with TOTS cured me but good. My loss was the theatre's gain, I assure you.
redcarpetdrew
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A change of pace!
WOMEN'S chesticles being discussed around these parts. Only on AW can a discussion go from stoves to headlights in one thread...
Ducks and runs REAL fast! (But not that fast that I didn't admire the view... LOL!)
RCD
WOMEN'S chesticles being discussed around these parts. Only on AW can a discussion go from stoves to headlights in one thread...
Ducks and runs REAL fast! (But not that fast that I didn't admire the view... LOL!)
RCD
danemodsandy
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RCD:
We ain't blind, ya know!
We ain't blind, ya know!
whirlcool
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They didn't call those "bullet bras" for nothing! Dagmar kinda looks like a cheap drag queen in that photo.
As Long As We're Off On This Tangent . . .
Well into my teenage years we had a girl in the neighborhood named Dagmar. She was very exotic looking, but not at all like the "real" Dagmar, quite the intimidating "bad girl" and was not to be messed with.
I don't know how it originated, but those who lived on her street referred to her as "Bongo Lips" behind her back. There was nothing terribly unusual about her lips, other than the fact that they were a little fuller than average and often bore a healthy application of lipstick, probably from Woolworth's. Maybe she talked too much, although I don't remember that she did.
Once I somehow got recruited to follow her in a hot-wired a car that belonged to her or a family member, a mid 60's Chrysler I think, with a sketchy transmission, to some low brow mechanic or other similarly funky destination. She prefaced the excursion with a stern warning that I had better not allow the engine to die. Some of the more scary moments of my life up to that point occurred as the car balked its way up a high overpass above the railroad tracks. It's tough to say whether I would have lived to tell about it if the car had conked out. Even if it wasn't my fault, that wouldn't have mattered.
Well into my teenage years we had a girl in the neighborhood named Dagmar. She was very exotic looking, but not at all like the "real" Dagmar, quite the intimidating "bad girl" and was not to be messed with.
I don't know how it originated, but those who lived on her street referred to her as "Bongo Lips" behind her back. There was nothing terribly unusual about her lips, other than the fact that they were a little fuller than average and often bore a healthy application of lipstick, probably from Woolworth's. Maybe she talked too much, although I don't remember that she did.
Once I somehow got recruited to follow her in a hot-wired a car that belonged to her or a family member, a mid 60's Chrysler I think, with a sketchy transmission, to some low brow mechanic or other similarly funky destination. She prefaced the excursion with a stern warning that I had better not allow the engine to die. Some of the more scary moments of my life up to that point occurred as the car balked its way up a high overpass above the railroad tracks. It's tough to say whether I would have lived to tell about it if the car had conked out. Even if it wasn't my fault, that wouldn't have mattered.
danemodsandy
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Allen:
"Dagmar kinda looks like a cheap drag queen in that photo."
That photo dates from about 1951, and for that point in time, Dagmar was hot. Look her up sometime to get an idea of how famous she was for a while there.
Cheap drag queens tend to copy the sex symbol of the moment, so there's that, too.
"Dagmar kinda looks like a cheap drag queen in that photo."
That photo dates from about 1951, and for that point in time, Dagmar was hot. Look her up sometime to get an idea of how famous she was for a while there.
Cheap drag queens tend to copy the sex symbol of the moment, so there's that, too.
twintubdexter
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My very nice thread about 2 perfectly innocent electric ranges has been turned into a cheap, tawdry discussion about women's measurements!...gotta love it 
You must be too young to remember Theater Under the Stars at Chastain.
redcarpetdrew
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A cheap, tawdry discussion...
Remember when you were at a huge family dinner where the entire family was there, including extended, and you tried to start an innocent conversation?
Yeah. Kinda like that...
RCD
Remember when you were at a huge family dinner where the entire family was there, including extended, and you tried to start an innocent conversation?
Yeah. Kinda like that...
RCD
