a Touch of Americana.

"Swinging like this, abandoned into the spirit of play, is how children express and react to trust..."

~ Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 

Hilda by Duane Bryers back in the old days swinging. Swinging like this, abandoned into the spirit of play, is how children express and react to trust... - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 3/6/18 

Meet Hilda, the creation of illustrator Duane Bryers and pin-up art’s best kept secret. Voluptuous in all the right places, a little clumsy but not at all shy about her figure, Hilda was one of the only atypical plus-sized pin-up queens to grace the pages of American calendars from the 1950s up until the early 1980s, and achieved moderate notoriety in the 1960s. - Eclectic Ladies 

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Girls Just Wanna Talk!

Hilda by Duane Bryers. on the phone.

In the decades preceding now parents complained about girls, their daughters, on the phone constantly talking to their girlfriends. A lot of movies had that theme in their favor. It was such a concern, and disciplines were enforced because parents had to ensure their children's futures, and without discipline or focus they could not go far enough in life to have a good one.

Times are different in respect to the development of the phone over the last 100 years, but not in the sense that would give a recipient of Life today a feel of being better than our yesterday! The difference is simple: parents have given their children into what they do not understand. A whole chapter is being written about how disconnected from the source of Life parents have allowed their children to be led away by a technology unaccompanied by maturation of the emotions, the spirit. For that we will pay dearly. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 3/7/18

Thick, We like 'em Thick!

Eclectic Ladies

Hilda. "... Her name was Hilda, and she was the creation of artist Duane Bryers. This full-figured pinup appeared in calendars from the 1950s through the 1980s, and was fairly popular. But for some reason, she’s been lost to history..." by Laura Caseley 

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"Right size women have long been the ongoing attraction for men. All over the country, in particular down South, these women and those larger with more definition of form place something of a spell up us all! It is more of a terrific form of expressing a feeling towards something within recognizing a symbol of something men need to brace themselves before becoming still within...
That is a brief touch into beyond the words that support illusion." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 3/6/18