Pin Up Girls

“little old lady from Pasadena” – Kathryn Minner

Pin Up Girls
(Above) The Base Special Services Office provided the Show with a great sign, providing an address where the men could write letters to the Show performers. The sign was always there on the 4' high stage apron of the Area #52 amphitheater.	Over the years as the men rushed to the stage at finale time to get autographs and photos from the stars and cast members, I learned from so many of them that their #1 photo they carried with them was of their wife, girlfriend or children . . . but what they got from us was their fantasy. And, yes, the Jean London Show did produce its share of PIN UP GIRLS, just like all Wars seem to produce. It is a fact that in every War in my short lifetime, from WWII onward, we have seen the phenomenon of the PIN UP GIRLS. The Jean London Show was fortunate to have so many beautiful women!
Jean even went to Camp Pendleton to do a photo shoot with Joyce for pin up shots taken at the Base to be used in the Pendleton SCOUT and ARMED FORCES NEWS. The girls brought photos to be autographed at all of the Shows and the men had a chance to write them once we put up the P.O. Box 46485 address; the letters poured in and the men could get 8 x 10’s or even wallet-size photos of “the Everything Girl” plus Sheri Alberoni, Ella Edwards, Lee Dawn, Linda Meiklejohn, Carol Laird, and yes, even that “little old lady from Pasadena” – Kathryn Minner! Seven year old Victoria Meyerink became the Marines "little sister Junior pin up" girl. CLICK HERE TO SEE SOME OF THE PIN UPS Jean and I learned early on when newspapers began writing about the Show, that what was written wasn’t always ‘just the facts, Maam’. I.e. The Herald Examiner article called Jean a “non pro” yet she was a member of the Screen Actor’s Guild to which the professionals belong. Other articles would give a figure of xxx number having attended the Shows and a few months later an article would come out with xxx number fewer, when we knew that it would have had to be a larger number. We decided to not pay any attention to the statistics and only learned from Colonel McCain when the Shows ended that we had entertained three quarters of a million Marines.
Left - Ella Edwards Center - Sheri Alberoni Right - Jean London
Read the article from the Los Angeles THE STAFF publication, dated June 6, 1972, titled "Visual Communication."