Smoker’s Hack

Easter Sunday, Phoenix Arizona, 1952

This is one of my all-time favorite slides!

Mary-Charlotte transforms a quaint motel bathroom into a makeshift cocktail bar. The luscious lass, with her striking strawberry blond hair and exquisite peaches-and-cream complexion, smokes a cigarette perched between her perfectly painted lips as she carefully mixes Tequila and Kahlua with a squeeze. I don’t know if she calls her Easter cocktail the Tequla Sunrise, but I do!

Speaking of Easter, what happened to Wester, Souther or Norther? Easter is the only holiday with a directional influence and the only holiday that celebrates fertility. Like two of the other most famous days of the year, Halloween and Valentines Day, we celebrate Easter by consuming candy and lots of it.

What Santa is to Christmas the Easter bunny is too Easter. But unlike Santa, who just brings us stuff, eats cookies and leaves, the Easter bunny does more. He brings a multi-color basket overflowing with shredded plastic and candy. And as if that wasn’t enough he then hides the chicken eggs we happily hard boiled and colored the day before so we can hunt them.

Easter is also the biggest day of the year for Peeps. The charming, color-coated marshmallows were first mass-squeezed out of tubes into the shape of fresh born baby chickens in 1954. Sit one on top of your Easter morning coffee or Tequla Sunrise and watch it melt!

Here’s to the Tequla Sunrise, the Easter Bunny, Peeps, Mary-Charlotte and YOU!

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