At Houston Assisted Living Facility, Resident With Alzheimer's Recreates Her 1945 Seventeen Magazine Ad

For a Boston Store trenchcoat known as 'The Paratrooper'

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Heading into the holiday weekend, the staff at Silverado Kingwood Memory Care, a facility in a northwest suburb of Houston, did something pretty special. They worked with a photographer, video crew, make-up artist and current resident Betty Mohr to recreate a print ad published in the April 1945 issue of Seventeen magazine.

The ad was for Boston Store, a department store chain founded in 1896 in Wisconsin. Mohr, then 17, was pictured wearing rain boots, a trenchoat and holding an umbrella.

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