NYC Miss Subways

19 October 2019, 08:04 PM

BeeLady

NYC Miss Subways

This was a PR campaign whereby young women were featured on placards in the subway cars in NYC.

My Dad's sisters, The Keeler Twins, identical twins, were featured... Miss Subways

The placards were cardboard and have two sides..so they could flip them the next month.

My cousin came for a visit this week and gave me a copy of our beloved aunts, Miss Subways in 1958. I took it to the framer today...My Dad LOVED the copy he had..

You can see an original upstairs at Ellen's Stardust Diner in Times Square

So fun..

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19 October 2019, 08:11 PM

CHAS

The good old days.
Today similar posters would draw stalkers.

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19 October 2019, 08:22 PM

BeeLady

Miss Subways were pretty diverse for their time.

Miss Subways Interviews

What I love about them is not just their looks or diversity..they did have many bios that included their college studies.

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"Wealth is like manure; spread it around and it makes everything grow; pile it up, and it stinks."
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19 October 2019, 08:52 PM

QuirtEvans

Wasn't the Miss Subways contest part of the musical On the Town?

19 October 2019, 08:53 PM

Axtremus

Nice!

19 October 2019, 08:59 PM

Mikhailoh

Very forward thinking for the time. I liked “two cigarettes in a pack”.

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20 October 2019, 09:26 AM

jodi

How cool!

20 October 2019, 01:23 PM

wtg

That's a great bit of history!

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