Friday, April 21, 2017

Dagmar bumpers


When they first came out, they were all chrome, but they inflicted so much damage to cars that were rear-ended by them.


So on later models, GM put black rubber tips on them to minimize damage, but the rubber tips gave them a look like they had pasties on them

http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5483276&postcount=5230


Born Virginia Ruth Egnor in Logan, W. Va., in 1921, Dagmar was one of seven children whose father worked as a coal miner and construction worker. Growing up in Huntington, W. Va., she attended business school for a year after high school and worked in a local drugstore. Married at 20, she moved to New York City during World War II to be with her Navy commander husband. When he was shipped overseas, she remained in New York and began a career modeling sweaters.

With no previous show business experience, she was hired by the comedy team of Olsen and Johnson as a principal in their Broadway show "Laughing Room Only," in the mid-1940s.

She was such a hit that her salary soared from $75 a week to $1,250. She earned $25,000 for two weeks at the Roxy with Berle and appeared at the Paramount Theater with Frank Sinatra. Edward R. Murrow did a "Person to Person" interview with her in her lavish penthouse on Central Park South, and she even appeared on the cover of Life magazine, and famous photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt took a lot of photos of her.

http://articles.latimes.com/2001/oct/11/local/me-55911

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