Rosie the Riveter was in Longview? That is only 58 miles from where I am right now! I could have gone to see her, baked her a cake...
I think about the Greatest Generation quite a lot, now...my parents' generation, what they gave for the world in that terrible war, and where our country ended up now...so inspiring for what we all face now in our troubled world...
...has this information; 'Following an arduous search by a Seton Hall University professor, Fraley was identified in 2016 as the “real” inspiration of the widely seen poster of a female factory worker flexing with the caption, “We can do it!” '
The woman in the photo you found DOES resemble the famous poster Rooster found, too!
Rosie the Riveter was in Longview? That is only 58 miles from where I am right now! I could have gone to see her, baked her a cake...
I think about the Greatest Generation quite a lot, now...my parents' generation, what they gave for the world in that terrible war, and where our country ended up now...so inspiring for what we all face now in our troubled world...
That is sad.
Unfortunately, I could not read the article in the New York Times (but I found one in the Daily Mail)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5301075/The-real-Rosie-Riveter-Naomi-Parker-Fraley-dies-96.html
R.I.P., Naomi Parker Fraley.
Marianne, I found a link also from FOX News
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/01/22/woman-called-inspiration-for-rosie-riveter-dies-at-96.html
...has this information; 'Following an arduous search by a Seton Hall University professor, Fraley was identified in 2016 as the “real” inspiration of the widely seen poster of a female factory worker flexing with the caption, “We can do it!” '
The woman in the photo you found DOES resemble the famous poster Rooster found, too!
And Naomi was beautiful. She had a figure like Lauren Bacall.
Thank you, Virginia and T(h)ink, oh yes, indeed, she seems to have something in common with Laureen Bacall.
Think she was 96! An inspiration for all! Always will be too. She was something.