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    Sifting through my Dads Foot Locker.=, Who's Skip Shafer?

    I was up early today working from home. My dad came to mind and I started missing him. I decided to open up his footlocker and just look at stuff and resurrect memories of him.

    In one envelope of old pictures, I found four pictures of Skip Shafer mixed in with a bunch of his military boxing, buddy, and other military pictures. For the life of me don't know why he has them. He wasn't one to hold on to pictures of people he didn't know personally.

    I got curious, but Google had nothing to offer on this person.. I guess its just one of those things you wish you could ask the dead about. She kind of looks like my cousin, but I've not seen her since I was 14.

    Does anyone know who she is?

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    I don’t have any basis for this but I feel like Skip Shafer may be the photographer for the modeling agency.

    That probably doesn’t really help but there it is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rcathey View Post
    I don’t have any basis for this but I feel like Skip Shafer may be the photographer for the modeling agency.
    Ahh... Didn't think about that... taking Skip out of my search I found a Claudia Cardinale that seems a match.. but still looking.

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    It's not Claudia Cardinale, but the reference ought to remind us we lost the great Morricione this year.

    Hard to believe, but your dad's pin-up may be one of those who chose not to make it on the Hollywood casting couches and found her way back to "San Jose"
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    Shafer could be spelt Schaeffer, i.e. the spelling on the photograph may not necessarily be correct, hence nothing found on-line.

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    Did your Dad like dark haired ladies? It probably a little something from his "spank bank".

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    Don't know on not being her but get pic #4 next to the larger one posted by usabaker and the resemblence is pretty darn close, no doubt it kept the boys spirits alive looking at those pics.
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    Quote Originally Posted by usabaker View Post
    Ahh... Didn't think about that... taking Skip out of my search I found a Claudia Cardinale that seems a match.. but still looking.

    https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...ale78903-1.jpg
    Yes, that's movie star Claudia Cardinale. Not so well known in the US (other than the original Pink Panther movie)....but made lots of European films. Certainly worthy of a spank-bank deposit!!!
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