It was clearly before nose jobs became common.
I found the mugs of Madeleine Gagnon (12th one down) rather interesting. In her profile pic (on the left) she didn’t look that bad… But when you see her straight-on… it’s a totally different story!
“That’s right baby, turn to your left again. Profiles really get me off. Yeah! That’s it… HEY! It’s that or the BAG!!!”
“Ten dollars for a session. $20 dollars with the lights out, eh?”
This. These were not the “merchandise”, they were the women running the show.
Once again, television has lied to me. I thought all Canadian women looked like Shania Twain and Jillian Reynolds. And all hookers were Julia Roberts or at worst Melanie Griffith.
Maybe there were a lot of School Marm fantasies in 1940’s Canada.
Perhaps all the best whores were shipped overseas for the troops at the front?
They didn’t wear helmets when they played hockey back then. A few pucks to the face and this is what you look like.
Yeah, but you don’t get to manage a McDonalds without having to run the fryer for a while first, so to speak.
Good Lord, those women are FUGLY! :eek:
Think of all the ‘actress without makeup’ pictures you’ve seen. Other than the first one, probably no real lookers in the set - but some of them would probably clean up to be 6’s or so.
And much over a 6 and they could probably get a husband instead of hooking.
This is Canada we’re talking about. If it isn’t a walrus, it’s beautiful! 
Some women today still do that to their eyebrows.
On purpose.
:smack:
Do any STDs cause your eyebrows to fall out, necessitating drawing them in and looking diseased?
I think the head on look is from her suck starting too many Army Jeeps.
In those days a nose job was a smack in the kisser, see? If you’re doin’ somethin’ that could get you bustin’ rocks in big stir, you ain’t mixing with hoi-polloi and Ducky shincrackers, got it?
Yeah.
We can use two paper bags, one for my head and one for your’s in case mine falls off. (I wish I could remember where I heard that).
It appears that acknowledging this would ruin the point, so no one wishes to.
Really?
It’s all about attitude. Really. 
One of the stories in Time Enough for Love uses this idea.
About one a year of so the local police do a hooker and john sting and pull in the usual suspects. I’ve always found it odd that while prostitutes (you would think) would have to have some degree of attractiveness to be successful the poor women netted in these trawls are always some of the most brutally homely and hard worn souls I have ever see.
That’s because the police/johns want the pretty ones to remain in business, and be available to them. The others are expendable.
I suspect that most of them started out looking normal, but drug abuse tends to do a real number on your looks. In my experience, most street walkers are drug addicts. I think the vast majority of women who don’t have drug problems are able to find better options than street walking.
Do a search on “prostitution mugshots” and you’ll discover that 21st-century hookers look pretty much the same, with the addition of scabbed-over facial wounds and lots of missing teeth.