Golden Gate International Exposition 1939-1940 @ggie1939 - Tumblr Blog

Here's that letter I referenced in the previous post, showing the behind the scenes look at the finances required to put together the Nude Ranch. Also included is a postcard showing a few of the leading ladies, and what looks like a whiteboard in the background of an attendee's photograph, showing a list of ladies or 'contestants', and a number of 'prints' that have perhaps been offered for sale to the public? I believe all of these images came from ebay listings over the years, with perhaps one or more images sourced elsewhere from the web.

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Check this out! The Sun Worshippers setup at the New York World's Fair in 1939 looks VERY similar to Sally Rand's Nude (Dude) Ranch in San Francisco at the GGIE.

It cost 25 cents* for attendees to visit the Dude Ranch, which would have dissuaded many from taking a peek, but was likely very popular with single men. Variety Magazine from March 1, 1939 announced: "Frisco exposition attendance the first seven days, exclusive of passes, totaled 452,393; Approximately 40,000 kids attended the Fair on dime day, Washington's Birthday (22). Top draw on the Gayway (midway) is Sally Rand's Nude Ranch, which grossed $40,000 In eight days. Cliff Wilson's Snake Show has played to over 9% of fair's total attendance at a dime a head. Robert Ripley's Oddltorium with a $3,500 weekly nut grabbed around $8,000. Infant Incubator concession took about $5,000. 'Cavalcade of Golden West,' expo-financed spectacle, is a slow starter, just about made its nut which is $1,400 a day."

But back to The Sun Worshippers in New York, I have to wonder if three women were extremely bored and extremely burnt by the end of the fair...unless they were constantly rotating the ladies on display (very likely). There's a stock photo online that shows the three women with a big crowd of men ogling the display.

These three women at the New York World's Fair are on display with the NTG Sun Worshippers, New York, New York, 1939. It was part of the Bro

*I was able to confirm the cost of admission was set at 25 cents per person to see Sally Rand's Dude Ranch, at least it was noted as such in the investor letter sent out to raise capital for the Ranch, coming from the Bert Levey Circuit of Vaudeville Theatres.

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Paper ephemera of the GGIE

Pageant stamp album, part 2

Pageant stamp album, part 1

A few items from the collection...

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A tribute to Sally Rand, born April 3, 1904. Here she is on her ‘Dude Ranch’ at the GGIE. This clip of film fell on the cutting room floor, perhaps one of the only surviving film clips from this famous exhibit? Well, at least half a second’s worth of motion picture film. This was from James A. Fitzpatrick’s Traveltalk series of short films. He did a number of Golden Gate International Exposition films, including “A Day on Treasure Island”, “Night Descends on Treasure Island”, and the “Cavalcade of San Francisco”. He also shot scenes from the 1939 short “Mendolsohn’s Wedding March" on the man-made Island.

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