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The Spruce Girls

spruce girls

Before there was The Spice Girls
There was The Spruce Girls

Spruce Girls Color
Spruce Girls Color

Wood Week In Washington State 1929, spruce veneer bathing suits.

The Spruce Girls won their way into America’s heart’s way before there was a such thing as the Spice Girls.

Women in two piece veneer bathing suits where the first role models for wood.

Photographer:

Vern C. Gorst,

courtesy of flickr

In 1929 The Logging industry in Washington State, cheerleaders for wood.

“Spruce Girls” on beach wearing spruce wood veneer bathing suits during “Wood Week” to promote products of the Gray Harbor lumber industry, Hoquiam, Washington

Traveling from Store to store, opening in  a  Fair. They road on a open booth train. Waving and smiling. These were some of the first female spoke’s women for sexuality able to sell wood. If you can wrap yourself in veneer and think your not pulling a lady gaga, I don’t care if it is 1929. You got something going on. Selling wood has always been America’s best possession.

Before Pamela Anderson sold tools for “TOOL TIME”, people already needed wood. Building America, required  resources. Washington State has provided America with miles of lumber. To build and sustain our lives. But just to show you how far back in advertising sex goes, I present “The Spruce Girls.”

The Spruce Girls
The Spruce Girls
Vern Centennial Gorst

Courtesy of

University of Washington

Libraries

 A Pacific Northwest adventurer and transportation pioneer, Vern Centennial Gorst was born on August 18, 1876 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 1888, the Gorst family relocated to the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington State. From an early age, Gorst displayed an entrepreneurial spirit and a fascination with transportation. He began his first transportation business at age 13, moving chickens across Port Orchard bay using a log raft he had constructed himself. As a young man, Gorst spent several successful years prospecting in Alaska during the gold rush. Later he returned to Puget Sound to invest his gold earnings in the arena of transportation. Over the next several decades, Gorst set to work building a number of transportation companies, with his focus eventually shifting to aviation when, at age 38, he became a self-taught pilot. In 1925, Gorst’s interest in flying won him a bid for the first contracted airmail service between Seattle and Los Angeles, and Pacific Air Transport was born. Gorst continued to be an entrepreneur of aviation, starting Seattle Flying Service in 1928, and creating other airline companies including Gorst Air Transport in 1929, Barnes and Gorst Air Mail, and Victoria Air Mail. Vern Gorst died in Portland, Oregon in 1953.

Roman Sex Coin

Roman Sex Coin

A bronze coin in exchange for Roman sex.
In A New York Times article posted January 5th, 2012, reports that a bronze coin containing a pornographic image had been found in the mud near the Putney Bridge over the Thames river in London, England. During the 1st century A.D. (date of the coin) London was a Roman outpost. Historians say coins depicting different sex acts were exchanged in brothels. In other words, you would receive the same sex act depicted on the coin. This is where the term, “a pound of flesh” originated.
It has been reported that similar items have been found in Troy.
The coin is now at The Museum of London.

The Whore Cyrus

Astounding to me and hopefully, to most of you as well, that I have actually seen this term. “The whore Cyrus,” in reference to Miley Cyrus. Not a prostitute or porn star but a Disney Star.

In a world where you create your universe by your own thoughts, how many woman, or girls must hate themselves so much as to direct their mean intentions toward a girl they never have met.
At the age of fourteen how many of them would be able to manage stardom, a career and a public persona?
Any odd actions we saw from Brittney Spears was nothing more than the delayed reaction of a teen age girl whom so many were jealous of and had lashed out at. And for what, chasing a dream, or was it being successful at it?
Even with all the persecution and hatred that Brittney has had to endure through her teenage life, just because you knew her name, she still has to get up every morning and carry on. It is that easy to forget that not only are these real people, but young girls that have had the same feelings and doubts as any of you.
I would dare any American girl to put on her shortest booty shorts, walk on to a stage in front of 10’s of thousands of people, and perform as expected. Without showing a single fear, revealing a single doubt, expressing even one misplaced intention.

After all that envy and hatred directed toward any one teenage American girl, weather it be Brittney or Miley or whomever, to come out as well as either of them have, alive, healthy, happy and successful, I have to admit that I am proud of the girls who represent “The American Teenage Girl.”
And no I am not Justin Bieber’s biggest fan, I can’t find any animosity towards him. For what, following a dream, finding success, daring to climb on stage and do what most of us can’t, being yourself under the scrutiny of the public eye.
Rehabs are filled with AMERICAN child stars and I don’t believe it was the industry that put them there, but more likely the people who did not consider themselves to be fans. If you can’t support America’s youth, can you at least not hurt them. Because after all, rich or poor, famous or obscure, inside they are or at least were, children of ours. Most of the world knows the names Brittney Spears and Miley Cyrus, American girls being just that, American girls. When Katy Perry sings “Teenage Dream,” I know at least one of them understood what they where capable of, and that even with any faults they might have, I am proud to call them American Idols.