Monday, September 03, 2018

LABOR DAY


Posted by Chic Silber at 9/03/2018 12:12:00 AM

2 comments:

Chic Silber said...


The first Labor Day was celebrated September 5th 1882 in New York City

The first state to declare Labor Day an official holiday was Oregon in 1887

03 September, 2018 00:22
Roger Smith said...

This lady was a California waitress named Naomi Parker Fraley. She became the iconic model for the world-famed "Rosie the Riveter", representing the great American women who stepped up for the war effort after Pearl Harbor. With the men "over there", these irreplaceable women went into the many vast defense plants, making everything from bullets to tanks to aircraft. Ms. Fraley, for a long 70 years, was almost eclipsed by others who claimed to be this original Rosie, but her image was confirmed by wartime historians. She lived on to age 96, and passed just this past January.

Very few remember that Mabel Stark boarded her tigers with Cecil Montgomery at his animal farm, in Albany, Oregon, for the duration of WW II, and became a "Rosie the Riveter" for those 4 years at the Lockheed plant in Burbank, California. She wrote to Parley Baer that she felt she could do more for her country than "chasing cats". Fewer still may know Mabel was a graduate nurse, out of Sts. Mary and Elizabeth's Hospital, in Louisville, Kentucky. When Lockheed learned of this, Mabel was made First Aid Captain for her section of the plant. Her husband, long-time circus menagerie man Eddie Trees, joined her at Lockheed. At war's end, they retrieved their 8 tigers, shaped up their training at World Jungle Compound, in Thousand Oaks, and resumed her career in 1946, on Jimmy Wood's Yankee-Patterson Circus.

04 September, 2018 22:31

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