NY Daily News Archive 1968: Crowds at Wall Street wait for "sweater girl" Francine Gottfried

[Jaylen Tatum]

Crowd waits patiently at Broad and Wall St. BMT subway station exit for the sweater girl Francine Gottfried to arrive.

In 1968 Francine Gottfried was an employee at Chemical Bank in New York City. Every day she would arrive at the Wall Street subway stop at 1:28 in the afternoon. Being a shapely woman with a figure of 43-23-37 caused crowds of men to wait for her arrival each day. Noticing that she arrived at the same time each day rumors spread of the “Wall Street Sweater Girl” with the shapely figure.
For several weeks in 1968 “girl-watchers” would wait for her arrival to gawk at the young woman. The number of these men grew larger every day until on September 18, 1968 2,000 people awaited her arrival. The next day 5,000 came, and on the third day 10,000 people filled the streets to see the famous girl “sweater girl.” According to reports journalists from all over the world with cameras were awaiting the young girl’s arrival, people re-leased ticker tape from buildings, and police waited with bull-horns.
For two weeks in September she was the subject of intense media and mania, leading her to quit her job on Wall Street. She later faded into obscurity and became a go-go dancer.

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[theskeep]

....and hot girls never had to have jobs again..

 

[mtu wa chuma]

Street harassment

 

[killacal]

Thirst trap

 

[mortuus est]

learn something new everyday

 

[Grand Cru Boo]

Sisters been shaped like that for centuries but never receive the same publicity. That privilege

 

[Larry Lobster]

ugly as fukk

 

[Ronald McDonald]

but i thought simping was exclusive to this generation?

 

[Amerikan Melanin]

Gotdamn talk about street harassment!!!
But for real yo I ws gonna stalk this bytch here if I knew when she got off the train I would publicly eat her ass after she been sitting on it for 8hrs

 

[Jaylen Tatum]

Gotdamn talk about street harassment!!!
But for real yo I ws gonna stalk this bytch here if I knew when she got off the train I would publicly eat her ass after she been sitting on it for 8hrs

 

[Valkcross]

Notice how this happens in the 60's when being a hoe was starting to be fashionable and the idea of being "feminine" was starting to become connected to images of busty, loose women

Before that it was house wives and mothers.

 

[Sad Bunny]

Sexy ass pawg

I need a time machine..I just want one glimpse

 

[Remote]

This bytch wasn't even hot by 1960s standards.

Even then they had Sophia Loren and Anna Karina

 

[acri1]

I can't even see what the hype is about...she's just a very plain looking white chick with disproportionate and silly-looking t*ts.

 

[Valkcross]

I can't even see what the hype is about...she's just a very plain looking white chick with disproportionate and silly-looking t*ts.

if it makes you feel better she would be considered fat these days. seems white men liked them a little chunkier than they do now.