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These photos of Bettie Page are commonly refereed to as the OFFICE
series and were taken at the Time-Warner Building in 1955 or 1956. For
years Charles West collected war memorabilia and antiques. In image
#183, (second row third scan) you can see a military sword under the
table! When Charles West was signing the Office photos for a portfolio
which was available at
papericons.com
(which sells many signed Bettie Page photos by the way!), he remembered
that sword! If you can enlarge these scans in an image browser, on some
of the photos, you can read the time on the wall clock.
The second half of this page is a different interpretation of the Bettie
Page Office photos by a member who describes them self as a "a devoted
BP fan who loves to polish her pics". Thank you for the addition Devoted
BP fan!
Here is Charles own words describing the event:
"Your request that I tell you about that day, way back in the '50s (Good
Lord a half a century ago!), that I took the "office" photos of my
beloved Bettie Page brings back a flood of happy memories. Nowadays I
have trouble even remembering my middle name, but, somehow, the events
of that day are as clear as if it were just yesterday.
It was on a Saturday in Mid-May, a beautiful, warm, a clear Spring day,
one of those rare days when New York wasn't breathless in the heat and
humidity that so often smothered the City and it's inhabitants. I sat in
the atrium of my Club in Fifth Avenue, a multi-storied room with marble
floors, walls and massive pillars. Throughout the great room were
scattered a goodly number of Club members awaiting their traditional
Saturday drinks and luncheon. Some sat chatting on the sofas, some
lounged in large easy chairs, some stood in groups of 2 or 3 chatting
quietly. And, as always, there were those few "loners" who sat in
isolation behind their newspapers. Among the latter was "old Phineas
Philoman Fotheringale Fartesque-Frost, known (secretly of course and NOT
very fondly) by the Club servants as "Old Frostynuts". From here on
we'll just call him "Old Frosty". That old curmudgeon sat there today as
usual behind his New York Times.
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