Merle Norman Cosmetics Saleswoman, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California

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Merle Norman Cosmetics Saleswoman, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California

Artist Bill Owens (American, born 1938)

Date1974 - 1976

ClassificationsPhotograph

MediumGelatin silver print

Dimensions8 x 10 in.

Credit LineGift of Philip A. Bernstein and Luisa Recalcati

Object number2021.0175

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Like everybody else, I am caught up in the rat race. I work eighty hours a week and with my real estate investments earn $100,000 a year. I just got divorced. In the insurance business, the public thinks we promise the moon, bit we can only deliver half a moon.

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A banana split has one banana, three lumps of ice milk, crushed pineapple, strawberries, chocolate syrup and whipped cream. In two days of our forty-nine cent special, we sold five thousand splits. Businessmen want a pretty face at the counter and counter girls have personality to deal with the public.

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Baking is the oldest trade in the world. We believe in customer satisfaction and start baking at 1:30 in the morning to ensure freshness. If it's mass produced, you have to take it or leave it.

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