The famed kissing nurse in the iconic 1945 Times Square photograph is back in New York to serve as a grand marshal in Tuesday's Veterans Day Parade.More than six decades after her image thrilled a nation, 90-year-old Edith Shain even got a kiss from another young man in uniform Sunday.
Nurse in iconic V-J Day Times Square photo still kissing
Nick Mayo, 25, who plays sailor Richard West in the Lincoln Center production of "South Pacific," gave Shain a smooch - and a long dip backstage. Remembering that celebratory kiss, Shain, who was a nurse in the now-demolished Doctors Hospital on the East Side, said she regretted never getting the dashing sailor's number.
"In retrospect, I should have said, 'Hey, wait a minute!'" the spry woman laughed.
Well, Edith, it's not too late. Turns out the guy who kissed you is Carl Muscarello, at the time a Middle Village boy. He lives in Florida now.
6 comments:
Those two were strangers in that 1945 photo? Wow. That's really sweet. It must have been an amazing time.
whatsup with the old lady?
comment my blog please :D
The old lady is the Doctors Hospital nurse in the original 1945 photo
I love this new photo: a gay actor/singer caressing a nonagenarian woman.
time was not kind to her
Anonymous said time was not kind to her. Let's see how YOU look at 90, if you even make it that long.
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