Rosie the Riveter Bookends

1. Skipweasel
   Oct 19th, 2009 at 4:30 am

   If she's a riveter, why's she doing up big nuts with a spanner?

2. D.D.
   Oct 19th, 2009 at 4:54 am

   My kids and I met the real "Rosie the Riveter". She was in a car waiting to get into a parade for the one hundredth anniversary of the Oldsmobile, in Lansing Michigan.

   We saw the sign on the car and figured "why not go talk with her" as she was just waiting there.

   She told us that when she posed for that famous poster, she was just 17 years old, and was a model, working for a modeling agency, and had never worked as a riveter.

   This was sometime around 1997 or 1998.

3. Tim Giachetti
   Oct 19th, 2009 at 5:15 am

   Nice comment D.D. I love older people. Living history books.
   I've been very lucky like that myself on many occasions.
   I could listen all day to someone who has had a unique life.

   And Alex: damn you man! I can't afford these. lol They are wonderful.

4. Tim Giachetti
   Oct 19th, 2009 at 5:16 am

   Notice I said "older people" one more year for the half century mark for me. Odd, I still feel young in the mind, but def old in the body.

5. SenorMysterioso
   Oct 19th, 2009 at 6:29 am

   Rosie was based on Rose Monroe and she was a riveter at Willow Run Aircraft in Michigan. I think she is considered the "real" Rosie.

   Shirley Karp was the model that played Rosie pretty much from 1940 - '45. She passed away this year.

   Karp however was not the model for the We Can Do It! poster. That was Geraldine Doyle, who was working in a Montana factory operating a press when she was 17. She was only there for a couple weeks. She lives in Lansing. I think the story is that she didnt even know We Can Do It! was modeled after her until the 80s sometime.

6. Jenna Patrick
   Oct 19th, 2009 at 6:36 am

   Not sure if there are many gamers on here, but in the hugely popular video game "Bioshock" there's a character named "Rosie" that is armed with a "Rivet gun". Just another tribute I thought I'd share.

7. rrw
   Oct 19th, 2009 at 6:42 am

   Not sure how to feel about the behind on that figure

8. zavatone
   Oct 19th, 2009 at 7:59 am

   Right on Skipweasel. No rivets or rivet gun to be seen.

9. ted
   Oct 19th, 2009 at 8:47 am

   $34.95 isn`t so bad for bookends.

   Sounds like Rosie is as fictitious as Sant Claus or Uncle Sam.

10. ted
    Oct 19th, 2009 at 8:48 am

    Erm - what am I saying?

    Kids, Santa Claus is real.

11. Piotrek
    Oct 19th, 2009 at 9:19 am

    Nice post, really helped mate Thank You!

12. TheDiversePurse
    Oct 19th, 2009 at 2:08 pm

    Those are pretty awesome.

13. Alex
    Oct 19th, 2009 at 2:32 pm

    LOL Skipweasel! Maybe it should be Suzie the Spanner lady. And thank you SenorMysterioso for the background info on Rosie the Riveter

    The bookends proved to be quite popular - we've sold out within hours.

14. Carl
    Oct 19th, 2009 at 8:42 pm

    "Right on Skipweasel. No rivets or rivet gun to be seen."

    Yup. This.

15. BamaChris
    Oct 20th, 2009 at 1:07 am

    Haha, nice.

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