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Presidents letter for February 2011
Regarding Saturday the12th of February: We will have our regular monthly club meeting at Po Folks in St Petersburg at 2pm as per usual. Our meeting will need to be a little shorter than some...we should end no later than 3:30. After the meeting, members who wish to join us will caravan to Tampa to the Albatross for our Cruise-in Car Show which is scheduled to start at 5pm. The Albatross is located in the shopping center at the corner of Waters and Hanley in the Town-n-Country area. If you can't make the meeting but wish to go to the car show arrive at the Albatross at 5pm, 7551 West Waters Ave, Tampa Fl. |
Presidents letter for February 2011
Besides being known as a cold month February can be a month that can warm your heart. It can especially touch the heart of the ladies. It is the month of Valentines and some men will buy the girl in his life fine jewels. Do you remember seeing the classic movie “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” as Marilyn Monroe sang “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend”? She sang it with such style!
Marilyn’s classic shape was much like the style of Cadillac at the time. The curvy and voluptuous styling of the 1953 Cadillac line was popular, and the advertising themes included a jeweled motif. Some of you may remember that for a number of years, displays of brilliant necklaces by such fine jewelers as Harry Winston and VanCleif and Arpels frequently appeared below the Cadillac “V” crest in almost all the print advertising. Harry Winston especially had a way with diamonds…even the famous Hope Diamond was in his hands. When he decided to donate the Hope to the Smithsonian, Harry just mailed it and the priceless gem got to the museum just fine and it can be seen there today.
As part of Harry Winston’s historic Court of Jewels exhibition the storied Hope diamond traveled to major American cities from 1949-1953 to help educate the public about precious gems. In 1958, Mr. Winston donated the Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian institution in Washington D.C. as a gift to the world.
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The French were bred to die for love
they delight in fighting duels
but I prefer a man who lives
and gives expensive jewels.
A kiss on the hand may be quite continental
but diamonds are a girl's best friend.
A kiss may be grand but it won't pay the rental
on your humble flat, or help you at the automat.
Men grow cold as girls grow old
and we all lose our charms in the end.
But square-cut or pear-shaped
these rocks don't lose their shape
Diamonds are a girl's best friend
...Tiffany's ... Cartier...
Talk to me, Harry, Winston, tell me all about it!
There may come a time when a lass needs a lawyer
but diamonds are a girl's best friend.
There may come a time when a hard-boiled employer
thinks you're awful nice
but get that ice or else no dice.
He's your guy when stocks are high
but beware when they start to descend,
It's then that those louses go back to their spouses
Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
I've heard of affairs that are strictly platonic
but diamonds are a girl's best friend,
and I think affairs that you must keep liaisonic
are better bets if little pets get big baguettes.
Time rolls on and youth is gone
and you can't straighten up when you bend
but stiff back or stiff knees
you stand straight at Tiffany's
Diamonds... Diamonds...
- I don't mean rhinestones -
but Diamonds, Are a Girl's Best Friend
they delight in fighting duels
but I prefer a man who lives
and gives expensive jewels.
A kiss on the hand may be quite continental
but diamonds are a girl's best friend.
A kiss may be grand but it won't pay the rental
on your humble flat, or help you at the automat.
Men grow cold as girls grow old
and we all lose our charms in the end.
But square-cut or pear-shaped
these rocks don't lose their shape
Diamonds are a girl's best friend
...Tiffany's ... Cartier...
Talk to me, Harry, Winston, tell me all about it!
There may come a time when a lass needs a lawyer
but diamonds are a girl's best friend.
There may come a time when a hard-boiled employer
thinks you're awful nice
but get that ice or else no dice.
He's your guy when stocks are high
but beware when they start to descend,
It's then that those louses go back to their spouses
Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
I've heard of affairs that are strictly platonic
but diamonds are a girl's best friend,
and I think affairs that you must keep liaisonic
are better bets if little pets get big baguettes.
Time rolls on and youth is gone
and you can't straighten up when you bend
but stiff back or stiff knees
you stand straight at Tiffany's
Diamonds... Diamonds...
- I don't mean rhinestones -
but Diamonds, Are a Girl's Best Friend
