The Space Needle is My Neighbor

EIGHT YEARS AND COUNTING What Have We Learned So Far?
"A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Saturday, March 18, 2006

Virtual Sun Maid Girl- Just Plain Creepy

Have you seen the new Sun Maid Raisin commercials? Yikes. Their new campaign (did they ever have an "old" campaign?) makes me vaguely uncomfortable. Remember people, it's "just grapes and sun". C r e e p y.
The Sun-Maid Girl
Many people want to know if a real person was the original "Sun-Maid girl." The answer is "Yes," and her name was Lorraine Collett Petersen. In May 1915, she was discovered drying her black hair curls in the sunny backyard of her parents’ home in Fresno, California. She was then asked to pose for a painting while holding a basket tray of fresh grapes. This striking image was first applied to packages of Sun-Maid raisins in 1916. Over the years, this image has been seen on millions and millions of packages and has been taken into homes throughout the world.

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