You must have been a beautiful baby
Who was the Gerber baby? Ann Turner Cook, who became a mystery novelist when she grew up.
But in old age she still managed somehow to look almost exactly like she did as a baby:
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wonderful lady…
Every so often I like to be reminded that old people were once young.
young buck,
Your comment made me laugh, thanks. Yes, once upon a time we were young and filled with the zest of youth. Now I am older with aches in the knees and arthritis in the left thumb. But I am a patriarch, I am filled with an older and hopefully wiser zest to provide a steady hand at the wheel, to support my extended family along with my siblings. We, as a family, will survive and prosper no matter what we may confront in the days and years ahead. Teach your children well.
We must be related. As babies, all 3 of my kids looked just like that. Seriously.
Whoa, the Gerber baby was a girl? My life just turned upside down. 🙂
I always heard it was Humphrey Bogart.
Then again, I always heard that Mr. Green Jeans on Captain Kangaroo smoked dope. But a friend of mine who knew him (did PR for the show) exasperatedly denied that, and said Mr. Green Jeans was just the nicest, squarest man.
The Bogart as Baby claim, it appears, from his Mom being an illustrator for the ad department at Gerber.
humphrey Bogart came from a wealthy background, I believe his mom earned the unheard of sum of
$50 grand a year, back in the 19 00s. And the old man had bucks too.
Bogart’s Dad was a pioneering plastic surgeon. Humphrey was a Master At Arms in the USN during WWI. MAAs are the Navy’s police officers. While uncuffing a prisoner, the prisoner broke loose, and swiped Bogart with the open jaws of the cuffs. That is how Bogie got that scar on his face, and the slight slur in his speech. It being the Navy in wartime, with worse injuries to worry about, they just stitched Bogie up, and sent him back to work. By the time the war was over, and Humphrey got cut loose, the scars had set, and his dad could not correct them with the techniques of the day.