Your Daily Briefing: 'Queen of Pinups' Bettie Page and the superfans who fought to honor her

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Good morning, friends, this is Nashville storytelling columnist Brad Schmitt here. Did you know that famous '50s pin-up icon Bettie Page has Tennessee roots? Now ya do.

For those of you asking, who's Bettie Page and what's a pin-up model?, well, you're probably younger than I. But here's a picture to help you get, uh, the picture:

As Tennessean writer Dave Paulson writes:

"The late Nashville native is known around the world as the 'Queen of Pinups' for the iconic, then-scandalous photographs taken of her in the 1950s. Page retired from modeling in 1957, soon becoming a born-again Christian and largely vanishing from the public eye."

More than 60 years later, a Murfreesboro house painter decided that Nashville should have a historical marker noting that Page is from this area.

Read what happened next here. And thanks for reading The Tennessean.

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