Las Vegas – I didn’t go easy to follow the woman who has been known as “Miss Atomic Bomb”. All Robert Friedrichs greedy to go to scene stage under a file of Archive newspaper showing them to sit with other Las Vegas samples.
It took you more than two decades to wake up Lee A. Merlin’s True ID.
Friedrichins, 81, it’s not a detective. It’s a historic and a retired scientist who had their start during atomic age, a complicated moment in American history when the line this stole “
Between 1951 and 1992, hundreds of nuclear tests were carried out, mostly Undergroundin the desert out of Las Vegas. But it was the clouds massive by the nucleu nucleus mushroom that captured the imagination of the public in all 1950s and the early 1960s.
Las Vegas sought to capitalize on that crazy, and in 1957 Send a photographer on the assignment to shoot a promotional announcement to nuclear. He caught an idea of catching the daily daily to the sand hotel in a swimsuit in the form of a fluffy mushroom cloud. In the photo, HOWGIRL height smiling with the wander widen as the desert is develops behind her as a stage.
The image played a key role in the form Las vegas ‘Identity as a city of fancy and performance. However it was known about the photo’s star – so far.
Friedrichs first establish to find atomic bombs around 2000. The atomic museum has been set in leaves in Las.
Who started as a simple question – what was she? – Become a obsession for Friedrichs that the useless and friends outlive carers.
Fruityzites complete pizzas with cities and potential potentials and guidelines, as you led tokota “to a guy in south dakota.” The days off were spent either by dips through online newspapers archives or a move for special collections in the library.
Telled the photographer from that famous PhotosHoot and interviewed formers showgirls that have confirmed the first-cover name. But the true name of the woman still eludes.
Leads dry and months turned around in years.
The mystery don’t keep in the night but he said when I was awake, has consumed their thoughts. Sometimes looking at the photo, wonder if she would ever give up the answer.
Then, last winter, something has happened unexpected. Gave a speech to the Atomic museum About his quest, and the next day, it has a hearing member and sent a copy of an obsuary. A detail was out: The woman had once been the dancer of the lead to the sand hotel.
Her name was Anna Lee Mahoney.
August 14, 1927, in the Bronx. Mahoneing Trained in Ballet in New York before you do in sample and musical under their Stage, Lee A. Merlin.
From 1957, it was the baller’s dancer of the hotel cop of the hotel, a frequent holiday of Rat Package and Mobsters. She carried out for Elite, including Frank Sinatrong and Louis Armstrong, according to its obiotary.
After you have one’s dance shoes, Mahoney worked for 30 years as a mental health adviser, moved in Hawaii and married. She died in 2001 in Santa Cruz, California, then have a battle with cancer.
Their photographed is one of the most required of the 7.5 billion continued pictures in the Las Vegas convenience and visitors of authority. Inspired Halloween clothes, and old playboy bunny holly madison Recreated it in 2012. One of the famous clothes appears in the background of a “TV story of the cleanliness.
“It’s just really mood that a click of the waste could have an impact” and Friedichs said.
A temporary exposure shows decades search open on June 13 to the Atomic Museum.
“Made bomb, some of the Mixta,” said the Gonder, “Director of the Mix,” but but it is also searching “the question.”
Beyond the years, the project became deep for Friedrichs.
He and the photographer, Don English, FareD love fast after his first network. Before amathi museum opened to the public, Friedrichs take English to the tour space. English wore the original camera that used to take the infamosa photo.
English position for a photo with a “Miss Bomb” folder “. Friedrichs schiage their pleasures of all pictures hanging out of it in 25 years.
English died in 2006, long before Friedrichs fixed the mystery. Instead he called daughter in English to share the news.
“It was really upset that we had to get this mess”, Friedchials they say.
And then there were the Showgirls passing the hours of talking with Friedrichs. It will have their names and stage stories on Vintage Vegas – Fantastic and Labor of the Man’s ring that one of those who wanted to marry her.
Women furnish a blind eye to the attached, life as copy of Las Vegas, still were sometimes initiated in the pic of the heads and their names omitted.
And finally, with the help of private investigators that have no time, friedichs dislike availi lied all the names of the seclicing seclicing secluder.
“It’s something I’ve always hoped serious in my life,” Friedrichs said, Lycy-eyed.
His motivation to solve the mystery is not coming from single curiosity. The name is missing was a gap in the historic record, said, and want to make it.
“It’s one is a nice thing knowing someone was the first president of the United States, but, what was his name again?”