I went and got my fist stuck in another tar baby over at the other place. But it's not a total loss, because I found out where Rosie the Riveter is--the Potomac Place Assisted Living Facility.

She fled Czechoslovakia in the 1930s at the age of 13, and she's the one that gave me the Perez Prado records.

So, here she is:



Like I told the people at that other place, I know her hair was dark in the Rosie-the-riveter poster, but that was then, and this is now.

I don't think she's changed much:

I watched a film or documentary type television programme on UK telly a few years ago on the subject of Rosie. I wonder what taht film or documentary type television programme was? It was very interesting.

The poster with its patriotic proletarian image could as easily have come from the USSR, it occurs to me

Wartime propaganda seems to speak a universal language.

The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter is a 1981 documentary film by Connie Field about the American women who went to work during World War II to do "men's jobs." In 1996, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
The film's title refers to "Rosie the Riveter,"
the cultural icon that represented women who manned the manufacturing
plants which produced munitions and material during World War II.
Connie Field got the idea for the film from a California “Rosie the
Riveter Reunion”, and, with grants from the National Endowment for the
Humanities and other charitable sources, conducted interviews with many
hundreds of women who had gone into war work. Out of these she choose
five representatives—three black, two white—all marvelously lively,
intelligent, attractive and articulate women who recall their
experiences with a mixtures of pleasant nostalgia and detached
bitterness.

The reminiscences are inter cut with the realities of the period –
old news, films, recruiting trailers, March of Time ad pop songs such
as “Rosie the Riveter”. (wiki)
Really excellent documentary film; my favorite parts are the two films prepared by the Defense Dept that were shown with the newsreels at movies of the time. The first has a psychiatrist who explains that it isn't unnatural at all for women to do work that's traditionally done by men and that women can do things like be welders, mechanics, etc. And so they did, in huge numbers, and suddenly all these women were working in these jobs and, though paid less than men, making really good money for the time.

The second film, shown right after the end of the war when millions of men came back and needed jobs, has the same psychiatrist explaining that, while it was important and necessary that women aided the war effort, now it's time to return to your natural roles of wives and mothers.
The psychiatrist is a woman by the way.
I like the film because it shows that progress can be undone if people aren't paying attention.

Pinhedz, you're right.

Stan, that has to have been the TV thingy I saw, and was engrossed by, some years ago. Excellent telling of a fascinating story.