The Last Days of American Tease
Bettie Page and the moral panic that ended the golden age of the American pinup
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16 min readMar 9, 2019
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Quietly and without fanfare, Bettie Page blew into New York City in the fall of 1950. Seven years later, at the height of her fame, the Queen of Curves abdicated her throne and left the same way.
