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Miss Atomic Bomb, Sands Copa Girl Lee Merlin, posing in the Las Vegas desert ... Friedrichs jokes it’s his favorite of all the photos he’s collected of her in 25 years. English died in ...
A photo authentically shows the winner of a 1950s “Miss Atomic Bomb” beauty pageant. Rating: What's True: The photo, taken in 1957, authentically shows a Las Vegas showgirl posing in a bathing ...
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - The long-standing mystery behind one of the most iconic photos of the Atomic Age has finally been solved. The Atomic Museum announced Friday that the woman in the ...
LAS VEGAS — It wasn't going to ... a life-sized cardboard cutout of “Miss Atomic Bomb.” Friedrichs jokes it’s his favorite of all the photos he’s collected of her in 25 years.
The new exhibit, "Miss Atomic Bomb: Icon of the Atomic Age", will open to the public on Friday and run through summer.
Courtesy LVCVA “Las Vegas played a vibrant and unique role in the Atomic Age, and Miss Atomic ... to be in one of the series of publicity pictures they were taking at the time, nobody knew ...
His work helped usher in the Atomic ... Las Vegas when he saw it. “I was about 10 miles below Searchlight, Nev., (some 80 miles south east of Las Vegas) when I saw the blast. It was a funny ...
It wasn't going to be easy to track down the woman who came to be known as “Miss Atomic Bomb." All Robert Friedrichs had to go on was a stage name he found printed under an archival newspaper photo ...