90-year-old Sun-Maid ‘girl’ gets a face-lift

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At 90, the Sun-Maid of raisin fame was starting to look a bit more like an old maid. So, the raisin brand called in makeover artists from Synthespian Studios in North Adams, Mass., and, voila! The Sun-Maid looks years away from being dried up. At her coming-out party this week, the Sun-Maid inspired trivia freaks to dig up her roots. Dig this: The Sun-Maid we’ve admired on raisin boxes all our lives was a painting of Lorraine Collett, who posed for the dried-fruit trademark 90 years ago.

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