May Engineering in 1948 began an unusual advertising campaign in The Eagle, each week running a three-panel comic strip, "Cherry Sundae,” relating the romantic misadventures of a “a beautiful little
The Downtown Dolls, a Fredericksburg-area social club committed to charity and volunteerism, decided last spring to raise money for a youngster fighting pediatric cancer. They did it by taking pies to the face.
Members of the Downtown Dolls occasionally adopt the âpinup lifestyleâ by wearing the hair, make-up, clothing and high heels of starlets from the 1940s and 1950s. They even adopt special personas and go by names like Cherry Sundae, Kitty Coco and Dani Divine.
To raise money for their cause, they asked people to donate money for every pie that was smashed into a memberâs face. They quickly met their $400 goal and zoomed past $1,000.