Let's briefly return to a post from six Christmas's ago. (page 285!)
Miss Velma at her Universal World Church in Los Angeles.
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Miss Velma was most famous for her extravagant Christmas Pageants.
Here's Velma (dressed as a Christmas angel) as she 'flies' horizontally over the stage at the Universal World Church"'
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in this clip Santa arrives in a mini-bus. (i.e. glorified golf cart)
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update:
I just came across these newspaper clippings earlier today.
Apparently, at some point in her reign Miss Velma started the "Miss Velma's Campaign for Youth".
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Velma as Cinderella.
isn't that the Easter dress?
Another theme was Outer Space where Velma "goes to the Moon"
I was bonkers about the Outer Space when I was a kid.
M E R R Y - C H R I S T M A S - E V E R Y O N E !
& Happy Holidays
Bruce
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If you're a newcomer to nla...or a glutton for punishment
you can go
HERE to meet Velma's husband (who also happens to be her first cousin)
and
HERE for an informative follow-up.
view the 'otherworldly' World Church plans
HERE
one last post
HERE