Sunday, May 8, 2011

The monorail model


Sarah Lipscomb writes:
"My mom was friends with a couple of photographers in Houston. Their names were
Ogden and Jim- They were a fun loving gay couple who launched a photography
business together back in the 60's. They used my family to model for them all
the time—especially my mom because she was so beautiful. Hobby Airport tried
to start a monorail and the photographers used my mom to help promote the
concept to Houston. She is standing in front of it in the photo. The monorail
never came to fruition but the photograph lives on to help us remember
that time. My older sister was 2 years old at the time, so she was a
young mom but she looks like a glamorous jet setting career woman on her way to
somewhere fabulous. Instead she was probably headed to the grocery store to pick
up dinner and vacuum cleaner bags on the way home."

6 comments:

Loose Diamonds said...

This looks like an ad from an old magazine. Very classy and stylish, I wish I owned a high res poster of this.

Anonymous said...

Gorgeous! A real-life Betty Draper.

Gladys said...

Lovely memory. She indeed looked like a model.

Gladys
www.sweetvintagelady.com

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