Boomers Pinups pictures are restored work products saved from my teen scrapbooks from the 1950s and early 60s. These pics had to be removed from my scrapbooks safely, and the holes, scratches, folds marks and deteriorations of pictures restored. This takes a lot of work and time, with many more to restore. This and other pictures of Boomers Pinups have been through restorations to return them to viewable conditions-these are restored work products and NOT FOR USE ON OTHER WEB PAGES. These pictures are personal. Many of my pictures are signed by me when I was a 1950's teenybopper, I would sign the picture as if I were that particular movie star. Some of my pictures I leave the old bulletin board pin marks just for old time sake, the pin marks from me moving the picture around over and over again on my 1950's teen bulletin board. There is a personal story in and on all my pictures. Growing up a 1950's teen

This year is the first year that I discovered my materials duplicated all over the web, and it had become actually abusive. In many cases entire web pages scraped and posted. Most infringements are small to medium and from people who did not go to my site to see the restrictions posted - uploaded from the postings by Google images. So I don't have bad feeling toward those, and also most people, at my request, do the right thing and remove my text and pictures. Also now all my pictures will have text across them in case they end up in Google images.

I created my site to share my materials but not to have others to recreate it at another web address. Where is the incentive for setting up a website if someone copies it as if it were their work? Copying someone’s work is plagiarism and a copyright infringement.

As a 1950's teeny bopper, I spent lots of the 1950's pasting these movie star pictures into my scrapbooks. If it was not for me saving these pictures there wouldn't be those big pinups of the 1950's teen idols on the web, several of the classic movie star pics. These pictures others did not save, I did. As the years went by I held onto these, others discarded their teen scrapbooks. I've held on to these for 50 plus years. I have many others: Marilyn Monroe, Rock Hudson, classic stars...., fifties teen idols, yet to take out of my scrapbooks that I saved from my 1950's teen scrapbooks and yet to restore them. Many of my saved 1950's scrapbook pictures yet to restore have not been seen and are not currently on the net. Many of The Fifties Teen Idols big pinup pictures that are on the net originated from my old saved scrapbooks.

Currently I’m discouraged. I’m in a dilemma, why should I add new commentary and restore more of my pictures, if others are going to copy it? In The Fifties we were taught that was a moral wrong – it was called plagiarism.

A lot of time and work goes into creating web page content - my efforts, web pages and time mean a lot to me. I can't change people’s minds about this practice of posting material from other sites. But it does seem like people that grew up in the 1950's understand.
Tracking down infringement means I spend my time this way instead of restoring pictures and creating new content.

Again, people have been pretty good about removing the pictures.
If you come across any Boomers Pinups pictures or my textual content posted out there on the net I would appreciate a write back.

Sincerely,
Carolyn Passalaqua
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Boomers Pinups web pages:
1950’s Movie Stars & Singers
The Fifties Teen Idols
1950’s History
Boomers Fifties Teen Idol Magazine
Boomers Pinups of Elvis
Fifties TV & Celebs
Fifties Fashion - Actresses
Fifties Fashion - Actors