Cracked and curled with age, it was almost impossible to identify the figures in the dark, glossy photograph. One of the young women in artist smocks and french berets had to be Zora. Taken at The Buzza Greeting Card Company, where she started working when she was seventeen, it was found among the lifetime of art work piled in her basement. We pressed the photo for weeks under a pile of heavy books, then scanned it, enlarged the image, repaired it as best we could. Amid the Buzza cards and images tacked on a velvet draped wall, the two figures at work on drawing boards became more distinct. The desperate story of that time and that place began to emerge.
Cracked and curled with age, it was almost impossible to identify the figures in the dark, glossy photograph. One of the young women in artist smocks and french berets had to be Zora. Taken at The Buzza Greeting Card Company, where she started working when she was seventeen, it was found among the lifetime of art work piled in her basement. We pressed the photo for weeks under a pile of heavy books, then scanned it, enlarged the image, repaired it as best we could. Amid the Buzza cards and images tacked on a velvet draped wall, the two figures at work on drawing boards became more distinct. The desperate story of that time and that place began to emerge.
Perhaps to escape a traitorous lover, perhaps to do her patriotic part, Hughberta enlists in the Marine Corps in 1943. Her older sister, Zora, constructs gliders as a "Rosie the Riveter." They both are artists. After the war, they take the luxurious Santa Fe Express to California, reveling in the life of their dreams amidst the L.A. mid-century art scene. A few love affairs threaten to come between them, but they retain their independence, even as, in their later years, it no longer serves them.
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