Charles Phoenix’s Slide of the Week: Halloween Party, Whittier, CA 1958

These woman all work in the Whittler High School cafeteria. The jailbird, the cowgirl, the angel, the Nordic princess on her way to a kabuki festival, smoking a corn cob pipe, and Tom Cruise in Top Gun. Together they sit on and before a shapely sofa upholstered in a deep turquoise fabric sparkling with silver metallic threads. And then there?s the lady on the right sporting a football jersey and sweatpants. She stares at a flaming orange taper while moving her hands up and down. What is she supposed to be and what is she doing? And what’s with her very unusual lap display? Everyone knows that russet potatoes don’t have anything to do with Halloween!

Here’s to ladies that work in cafeterias, russet potato lap displays and Halloween!

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