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To: Gauguin who wrote (52237)	6/14/2000 11:31:00 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

There is a lot of really strange pop-art around... I love cover art from 50s and 60s pulp fiction....especially sci-fi stuff where there seemed to be an amazing preponderence of alien pod monsters or giant squid-like beings grabbing shapely girls with their tentacles... That kind of thing makes me LAFF in 3 seconds or less... But, as you know, I also collect old postcards of several types... Had this one card which I have since given away to a friend... really silly... It was printed around the turn of the century... It was of a man and woman walking together, but he has turned around and has, rather slyly, hooked the crook of his cane so that it is lifting up the hem of the back of a pretty young woman's long bustle-type skirt so that he can see her ankle as she walks in the opposite direction... I can't remember what the quip-line is but it was probably considered fairly lecherous at the time... What is particularly funny about this card is that I've now seen several of them at postcard shows, so it must have been widely distributed at the time.... BTW, a slight digression as a matter of historic interest.... My grandmother worked as a secretary early in this century. She had to take the streetcar to work every day and she said that young women had to have good, strong arms to board and disembark from the streetcars as men would gather at the stops in the business section of the city in hopes of seeing women's ankles or calves as they got on or off of the cars. If your arms were strong enough, you could hold the handrails on either side of the steps and do a little "hop" on or off of the car so that the men couldn't see too much of your leg beside the toe of your little boots... I imagine that the only ones getting their jollies were the guys with the foot and shoe fetishes... (0:

To: Gauguin who wrote (52237)	6/14/2000 1:17:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

That's odd - my friend Justin collects stuff like that, too. Petty Girls, Betty Page, 50's porn, or was it 40's? Mass market paperbacks with busty women and manly men. Of course, he collects everything. I told him about your rusty metal collection, and he says if you'll pay the shipping, he's got a lot of things you'd like. I know that when old printing plants shut down, he was always eager to collect enormous old machines. I think he quit collecting when he ran out of room in his basement - which is about 40x70. Seems as if you, Croc and Justin are long-lost kin of some kind. As for me, I seem to be an orphan.