[Land-speed] Non LSR: remember her?

Glen Barrett speedtimer at beyondbb.com
Mon Dec 15 12:41:07 MST 2008


NO, not him.
Glen
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Buck" <rbuck at xmission.com>
To: "joseph lance" <jolylance at earthlink.net>; "Doug Odom" 
<dlodom at charter.net>; "Wester Potter" <wester6935 at comcast.net>
Cc: "landspeed at autox.team.net" <land-speed at autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Non LSR: remember her?


> Is this the same Bill Ward who ran the orange #30 Opel GT in Modified 
> Sports?  His drawings seemed more cartoon-like than Vargas's.
>
> And yes, I remember Vargas and his art (I musta been a bit precocious, 
> Wes...I found 'em in my father's Playboys.  Until he started hiding 'em. 
> But I always seemed to find the occasional tidbit under the front seat of 
> his 53 Buick.  Never saw the Esquire pics, though) and he was fantastic. 
> I still have a collection of his drawings in digital form.
>
> I also remember Bettie Page and the famous bangs.  I'd read about her 
> getting religion, but I didn't realize that she had reconciled it with her 
> modelling.  She was a very lovely lady.  I always thought that her best 
> photos were done by Bunny Yeager, who was also a pinup model...but wielded 
> a mean Speed Graphic camera, too.
>
> RtR
>
> At 11:15 PM 12/12/2008, joseph lance wrote:
>>I remember the "Vargas girls" but my all-time favorites were (and are) the 
>>drawings of Bill Ward. See  www.womenofward.net and several other internet 
>>sites displaying his work.
>>
>>Lance
>>
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Wester Potter" 
>><wester6935 at comcast.net>
>>To: "Doug Odom" <dlodom at charter.net>
>>Cc: "landspeed at autox.team.net" <land-speed at autox.team.net>
>>Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 6:39 PM
>>Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Non LSR: remember her?
>>
>>
>>>I'm a little older than most of you and remember the "Vargas girls" 
>>>Alberto Vargas did for Esquire very well.  I am reminded of how lovely 
>>>they were every time I pull out the CD "The Last of the Whorehouse  Piano 
>>>Players" By Ralph Sutton and Jay McShann with one of his nudes  on the 
>>>front.  Photography is wonderful but nothing can touch the  allure of 
>>>those Vargas drawings.  Betty Paige just couldn't compete,  even in 
>>>Playboy.  And, come to think of it the music is great too,  that's why I 
>>>pull it out of the drawer ... the illustration is just  the bonus.  I'm 
>>>going to dub off a copy to have in the car, minus the  illustration 
>>>however.  Just great piano playing!
>>>
>>>Wes
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