Wednesday, May 06, 2020

NURSES #3


Posted by Chic Silber at 5/06/2020 12:33:00 PM

3 comments:

boppabill said...

Bunch of student nurses dressed like my wife was, except her school required white stockings. She refused to go the school that had the same uniform but black stockings. The aprons were so starched they stood up by themselves.

06 May, 2020 22:50
Don said...

Terry Abbot was a nurse. She told me once that she carried her starched nurses cap in her wardrobe trunk on the Ringling show and with the Wallendas. She figured if show business didn't work out, she could always get a job in any town as a nurse.

Don Covington

07 May, 2020 03:15
Roger Smith said...

Before she was Mabel Stark, she was Mary Ann Haynie, a graduate nurse out of Kentucky. She nursed showfolks during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, and was on call for anyone ever needing her on whatever show. From 1942 to 1946, she boarded her tigers with Cecil Montgomery, in Albany, Oregon, and became a "Rosie The Riveter" at Lockheed, in Burbank. There, she also served as First Aid Captain for her section of the plant. Whenever I got nailed at Jungleland, her attentions for me were gentle but businesslike, and she applied Cocoa Butter, an old-time remedy, to heal my scars.

Thank God for our nurses, heroines one and all.

07 May, 2020 05:40

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