The Story Behind Farrah Fawcett's Iconic 1976 Swimsuit Poster

Biography ^ | 7/14/20 | Sara Kettler

[Blueflag]

I was attracted to Addrienne Barbeau, and her, um, assets, until I realized she was well over a FOOT shorter than me.

It was never going to work out. I had to let her go.

Farrah was closer to 5’7” ... Workable, but a younger-looking “older woman.”

Cheryl is 8 years older, same as Farrah. And while most def in the top 10, that wasn’t going to work either.

[dfwgator]

She creamed Joe Namath

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ClijtnPkfU

[logi_cal869]

Oh, COME ON:

No pic, REALLY????

[1Old Pro]

The same poster was on the wall in my senior high school physics classroom - with her measurements in metric. Try that now!

Yep, 50 years of decline IMHO. In between we got Reagan and Trump that slowed the decline, but the decline continues.

[Bounced2X]

Beat me to it. In a college marketing class we looked into subliminal advertising and this was one of the pics we used. Along the bottom of her hair "sex" is spelled out. Or so it seams.

[DIRTYSECRET]

For my rich girlfriend I go rid of the bedroom ceiling mirror and installed a stock market ticker.

[1Old Pro]

In a college marketing class we looked into subliminal advertising and this was one of the pics we used. Along the bottom of her hair "sex" is spelled out. Or so it seams.

So subliminal that nobody even saw it. You sure that wasn't a field ecology class investigating mushrooms?

[cymbeline]

“At least men were men, and women were women.”

We still are but neither manliness nor ladiness fit the woke model.

[outofsalt]

[bravo whiskey]

I had one in my mortar platoon FDC track when I was in Germany in 1977.

[ansel12]

“”””subliminal advertising””””

Loved the topic, read some of the books like ‘Subliminal Seduction’ but was never sure what, or how much to make of it.

[Bartholomew Roberts]

Did you study Wilson Bryan Key’s Clam Plate Orgy?

I met him when he came to speak to my Advertising class in college.

[outofsalt]

Nastasia! Yes!

[Bounced2X]

So subliminal that nobody even saw it. You sure that wasn't a field ecology class investigating mushrooms?

Investigating mushrooms, plus other things, was a weekend seminar at a different professors off campus "classroom". ;O)

[wny]

The most beautiful woman on TV in the 70s was Jan Smithers.

[logi_cal869]

In psychology, that's referred to as "motivated perception".

LOL

[joethedrummer]

Not to mention Lynda Carter - reclining in that red dress…

[Bounced2X]

Loved the topic, read some of the books like ‘Subliminal Seduction’ / Did you study Wilson Bryan Key’s Clam Plate Orgy?

Had to look up Wilson Bryan Key. Don't recall him ever being mentioned. We looked at a lot of pics. I brought in a copy of Billboard magazine with an add for the Ramones "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker" to see if we could find anything in that. Don't recall that we did.

[Bounced2X]

Nastasia! Yes!

Something Biblical about that pic. ;)

[PGR88]

LOL. We were kids. My parents would NEVER have allowed such a poster into our house.

But my friend Bobby down the street had that poster on his bedroom wall. His mother would passive-aggressively gripe about it, but wouldn’t/couldn’t make him take it down - and I would admire it every time I was at his house.