All the guys who read Playboy were hung up on Vargas, but I thought Elvgren was much better.
Posted on 02/23/2009 8:28:52 PM PST by slomark
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Farrah Fawcett. Red swimsuit. Blonde hair. More teeth than is anatomically possible. Oooooh, that poster.
Fawcett is now suing the pants off Bio-Graphics Inc., Pie International Inc. and T.N. Trikilis, accusing them of claiming they own exclusive rights to the photo, reproducing it and selling it. She’s demanding $100,000.
Fawcett swears up and down that she “owns and possesses all the photographs and negatives of all the photographs taken at the photo shoot.”
We’re showing you the poster in question, knowing full well that it’s virtually impossible for any man who grew up in the 70s to wipe it from his memory. Even if he wanted to.
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I remember a cousin who had both the Farrah poster and a Loni Anderson poster.
or who “remembers holding the poster up with one hand in the bathroon” ?
Remember the old joke about Ancient Egyptian plumbing students? “Pharoh Faucet Majors”? LOL.
I know you can read the stories in Playboy with one hand.
All the guys who read Playboy were hung up on Vargas, but I thought Elvgren was much better.
I went to the same high school just 15 years later.
THat’s it?
I was thinking she was on hands and knees.
SHE HAS NIPPLES...OH LORD, I`m sorry for looking...(sticking bar of soap in eyes) OOOOHH, It burns...I never imagined she had those...uh oh..tent pitching...(grabbing lighter fluid to burn away pelvis area)..
I’ve had a theory for years that Bern Nadette Stanis (Thelma from Good Times) would also have had a huge, iconic poster in that era, IF the suits weren’t gun-shy about heavily promoting a black woman as a mainstream sex symbol in that time.
Had she come along only a decade later, I bet it would have happened.
A very beautiful woman.
I tend to not give much credibility to people who find evidence if racism around every corner, but I do think there are legit examples of bigotry/racism holding back talent in the entertainment business, sometimes.
Midget fists!!!!
My Dad and I put a piece of bubble gum under the Uh area to inhance the picture.The picture hung in our shop for years.What memories.
Anyone admitting it will also have to admit that Farrah is now 62!
ping
> Who else here is old enough to remember hanging that poster on their bedroom wall!
Not me. My uncle(s) had one in each of their rooms though (cough).
Perhaps but Pam Grier was as they described attractive women back then, Foxy. 
Never heard of her.
There’s lots and lots of gorgeous women that never become famous. Who knows why some do while the others don’t? I can’t figure it out. I don’t think it’s got anything to do with skin color.
I can think back to my teenage years and remember half a dozen girls(easy) that were nobodies but were way way prettier than nicole simpson or britney spears or any of those other train wrecks.
My brother in law gave me a 365 day calendar with that artist a few years ago, after about mid Feb my boss dropped by everyday to chat for a minute to two.
True, Foxy. Still, Pam wasn’t promoted heavily as a mainstream sex symbol. These days it’s all good.
And I still do.
Not attractive at all.
Only thing I can figure is that when the media tells the public over and over again, that someone is absolutely gorgeous, the public believes it.
It must have something to do with genetics: that is, people must be programmed to see as sexy what they are persuaded everybody else finds sexy.
Such genetic programming would help insure that by having offspring from a mate that everyone else seems to desire, will help insure one’s offspring will not lack for the best mates in their generation.
Anyway, I see with my eyes, and I think she's pretty hideous.
Bony sack of stringy tendons with sandpaper complexion, chemical hair, and beady little eyes set in a face with too many sharp corners.
Yuck.
I agree with your last point - I know many women prettier than many women pushed as mainstream sex symbols these days. Many cocktail waitresses at a casino are better looking than many sex symbols. You are right.
That being said, I do think the suits had a problem with promoting a black mainstream sex symbol in that era. That’s a facet of bigotry, no doubt in my mind.
That poster was EVERYWHERE!
Every girl wanted that “feathered” hairdo, too.
I have to admit, I never had the hots for Farrah Fawcett. I always thought she was way over rated and I hated her puffy blown out hair styles.
Farrah was a beauty in her day, but time sure catches us all! Boy, I miss those days! Times have surely changed, but not for the better!
Did you go to a Catholic school in the 1950s like I did? Sure sounds like it.
Had a male buddy (me female) that was so in Love with Donna Summer.
No other woman would ever do. LOL
Bony sack of stringy tendons with sandpaper complexion, chemical hair, and beady little eyes set in a face with too many sharp corners.
Yuck.
You just described Ann Coulter.
<<<<'Farrah's Faucets'>>>>
talk about over-analyzing...
I think Elvgren was the best.I have that picture,along with about ten others(all vintage),in my office and garage.
Now that you mention it . . . .
Mine was on my wall right next to Christy Brinkley...
As second or third place?
There’s a lady at work, who’s probably in her 50s, with ‘Farrah Fawcett Hair’. I bet she’s had it that way for 30 years.
(Ann is popular because in addition to being a tall, leggy blonde, she is also a conservative intellectual unafraid to use her acerbic wit to eviscerate liberals in public, often violating unspoken, liberal-imposed "you can't SAY that" rules, thereby widening the bounds of discourse for the rest of us...)
And did I mention she's a leggy blonde? If Helen Thomas said the same things Ann did, she still wouldn't have attained nearly the same popularity.
...NOW I've done it. Mentioned them both in the same post. Let's see whose picture gets posted first...
Cheers!
You are probably too young to remember this. But, what the hell....
Farrah’s just a burned out old druggie now. She’s got to buy Xanax somehow.
Me! Me!..........It was on the back of my bedroom door. Good Times....Good Times......
I remember having a county road map and an aviation sectional on my bedroom wall.
I won that poster at the San Fernando Valley Fair when I was about 10. Only time I won that dart-balloon game. I’m surprised my mom let me put it on my wall. Thanks, dad. LOL
Uh, guilty here. On the inside of the bedroom door.
I actually knew guys who dated Farrah Fawcett in high school or had friends who dated her.
Another classic of the same time was the SI Swimsuit pic of Cheryl Tiegs in the fishnet one piece!
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