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The Story Behind Farrah Fawcett's Iconic 1976 Swimsuit Poster
Biography ^ | 7/14/20 | Sara Kettler

Posted on 07/31/2023 6:02:26 AM PDT by DallasBiff

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To: DallasBiff

Before internet porn, before any porn was widely available...this kind of picture was a gateway to fantasy.


61 posted on 07/31/2023 8:26:23 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: DouglasKC

No different than those posters of Betty Grable during WWII.


62 posted on 07/31/2023 8:27:33 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Jim Noble

College in ‘68 was so different. My dorm room, like many, had Alphonse Mucha posters with Art Nuveau women, along with the occasional Cher or Grace Slick poster.


63 posted on 07/31/2023 8:36:45 AM PDT by PUGACHEV
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To: Clutch Martin

Agreed! Jaclyn Smith was the babe on Charlies Angels!

I remember when this poster came out. Lee Majors her husband at the time, is from my small hometown. On occasions he would return quietly to visit his parents. In the mountains of Kentucky a fancy car in the 70’s was noticeable. We passed him and Mrs. Fawcett-Majors once when they were driving into town. My Mom was like, that was Lee Majors and Farrah! No one in the town really made a point of being a pest or aggravating them.

When Majors father passed my wife’s Great Uncle ended up buying his parents house when his Mom moved. My parents have ran a florist since the 1950’s and on occasions Majors will still call them and order flowers for an old family friend who has passed. He always is pleasant and friendly and asks how things are going in the little town.


64 posted on 07/31/2023 8:53:22 AM PDT by sarge83
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To: ShadowAce

“I had one of the (original) Walter Heisenberg ...
I was never certain where mine was”

Ok, that was pretty good.


65 posted on 07/31/2023 8:57:23 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: DallasBiff

Lemme guess, it was freezing cold in the photo studio?


66 posted on 07/31/2023 9:26:45 AM PDT by representativerepublic (...loose lips, sink ships)
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To: logi_cal869

It was the nip that sold the poster.


67 posted on 07/31/2023 9:32:33 AM PDT by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: 1Old Pro
Gina Lollobrigida

(U got to find UR own link, plenty of them)

In my youthful age (the '50s which hosted quite a bevy of desirable stars) one did not find a mag or muvee image of a beauty whose chest is not encaged in a pointy-shape bra (except when Hefner's publicly sold "Playmate" mag came out ct. 1953).

Though not American-born, Gina was probably one of the really intelligent and most intellectually productive author of profitable works throughout her long life (95 years). She didn't appear to be engaged in self-destroying suicidal stupid behavior like other big-boob broads like Norma Jeane Mortenson or Vera Jayne Palmer, IMHO.

I've really liked the acting of her daughter, Mariska Hargitay. As Olivia Benson, she has carried off the role of an intelligent LEO quite well. Maybe she'll have a long productive life like Gina B, more like one dedicated to professionalism rather than reputation as a blatant cesspool sexpot.

68 posted on 07/31/2023 10:03:09 AM PDT by imardmd1 (To learn is to live. To live is to teach another. Fiat Lux!)
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To: imardmd1; 1Old Pro

To dispel the uncertainty my text seems to imply, Vera Jayne Palmer = Jayne Mansfield = mother of Mariska Harditay.


69 posted on 07/31/2023 10:09:55 AM PDT by imardmd1 (To learn is to live. To live is to teach another. Fiat Lux!)
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To: imardmd1; 1Old Pro

And Norma Jeane Mortenson = Marilyn Monroe


70 posted on 07/31/2023 10:14:57 AM PDT by imardmd1 (To learn is to live. To live is to teach another. Fiat Lux!)
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more like one dedicated to professionalism rather than reputation as a blatant cesspool sexpot.

I think there are a few that could maintain normalcy, Raquel Welch and Bo Derek, bot conservative later in life.

71 posted on 07/31/2023 10:54:47 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Clutch Martin

Cheryl Ladd.


72 posted on 07/31/2023 11:55:35 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AN GLOBALISM! Trump 2024, NO more Mr Nice)
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To: EEGator
"I was stuck with MTV and National Geographic pics…"

Lucky! I had the Montgomery Wards catalog lingerie section...

73 posted on 07/31/2023 2:29:35 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: texas booster

😁

I forgot to add the name of that presumed slapstick comedy: “What’s New Dead Pussycat?”

Oh, well...

I worked on my thesis in the very same building Born, Heisenberg, and all the other luminaries worked in back in their days. Some things just don’t rub off though, bummer...


74 posted on 07/31/2023 3:31:42 PM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: DallasBiff

I had the Adrienne Barbeau poster in the purple. My roommate in college had a 6 foot poster of Farrah on our dorm wall.


75 posted on 07/31/2023 7:47:36 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: wny

#35 You are correct.
Jan Smithers many photos.
https://www.vintag.es/2023/02/jan-smithers.html


76 posted on 07/31/2023 8:12:57 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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