Meter maid press photo 1985

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Press photo showing a Black meter maid (Parking Control Officer), Andrea Bernard, in New Orleans wearing a short-sleeved button-down uniform shirt with a badge, belt, and sunglasses (no cap). She is placing a parking ticket on the windshield of a car. Contributing writer identified as Ron Virgets. Newsprint taped to the back of the press photo was published in the Times-Picayune, but this particular photograph was an unpublished extra. Dated July 12, 1985. Purchased by Heather Akou on eBay. Article notes, 'Andrea Bernard says her black rubber-soled shoes from the Army surplus store will last her six months, if she sews the soles and caps the heels. Small wonder. A day in the life of Andrea Bernard involves 7 1/2 hours of combing a section of the French Quarter between St. Louis Cathedral and St. Jude's Shrine on North Rampart Street. [ ... ]... it's hard to find a job more feared or reviled than the one performed by Bernard and her 100 or so colleagues in the city's Parking Control Division.' Barcode from historicimages.com (nob94873).