Betty Boop - Seaside Heights, NJ
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N 39° 56.532 W 074° 04.234
18S E 579403 N 4421755
This Betty Boop is located at 715 Boardwalk, Seaside Heights, NJ 08751
Waymark Code: WMCMT6
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 09/22/2011
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Located at Jimbo's Bar & Grill on the Boardwalk in Seaside Heights, NJ, this fiberglass Betty Boop sculpture depicts her in a very short red dress and high heels...and revealing a garter on her left thigh.
Betty Boop is a cartoon character created by Max Fleischer in 1930.
Wikipedia (
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"Betty Boop was unique among female cartoon characters because she represented a sexualized woman. Other female cartoon characters of the same period, such as Minnie Mouse, displayed their underwear or bloomers regularly, in the style of childish or comical characters, not a fully defined woman's form. Many other female cartoons were merely clones of their male co-stars, with alterations in costume, the addition of eyelashes, and a female voice. Betty Boop wore short dresses, high heels, a garter, and her breasts were highlighted with a low, contoured bodice that showed cleavage. In her cartoons, male characters frequently try to sneak peeks at her while she's changing or simply going about her business. In Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle, she does the hula wearing nothing but a lei, strategically placed to cover her breasts, and a grass skirt. This was repeated in her first cameo appearance in Popeye the Sailor (1933). There was, however, a certain girlish quality to the character. She was drawn with a head more similar to a baby's than an adult's in proportion to her body. This suggested the combination of girlishness and maturity that many people saw in the flapper type, which Betty represented."
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