Tracking Down Siglinda

I'm pretty sure the whole purpose of my eJournal and images is to allow me an Internet version of my own gigantic scrapbook. I guess I should arrive at some definitive purpose for this blog as it's now approaching ten years of daily entries! I do know time and distance used to allow memories to slowly dissolve. An occasional incomplete misty fragment had to be left wanting as there was no means to refresh it. No way existed to revive a concrete image of little snippets of things gone by.

I somehow found my 2005 entry in which I first posted a photo from the 80's. Today, I added it to The Harbor Gameroom's Facebook page as it also contained old friends, Bret and Joel. I noted the title and wondered if I could find out more.

An exhaustive Net search for Siglinda Steinfuller turned up little, but here's the scoop. I remembered the name and was pretty sure pinup posters were a marketing campaign for a beer company. Eventually, although it required a substantial amount of image editing, I'm proud to present this:


She was the Dean of Beer. People, I guess, drank Schlitz in 1977. This was the year I was a college freshman. By 1982 Schlitz had been sold to Stroh Brewery Company. I'm not sure how effective Schlitz was in increasing college beer sales with these posters, but I recall them being a big hit in male dorm rooms. The legal drinking age, back then, was 18. Siglinda Steinfuller was probably the most popular girl on campus that fall.