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	<title>Save The Pink Bathrooms</title>
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	<description>A pink bathroom is a wonderful thing. Join us in our quest to preserve and maintain the gorgeous Mamie Pink midcentury bathrooms all across America.</description>
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		<title>Mamie Eisenhower: Unwitting creator of THE iconic color of the 50s, &#8220;Mamie Pink&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Mamie Pink.&#8221; The iconic decorating color of the 50s, arguably. Ubiquitous in fashion as well as bathrooms and kitchens. The mid-century trend to pink seems to have come directly and irrefutably from Mamie Eisenhower, first lady from 1953 to 1961. Pink was Mamie&#8217;s favorite color. She wore a pink gown with 2,000 pink rhinestones to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://savethepinkbathrooms.com/2009/07/05/mamie-eisenhower-unwitting-creator-of-the-iconic-color-of-the-50s-mamie-pink/</link>
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		<title>Glamorlux Nancy&#8217;s pink poodle bathroom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Glamorlux Nancy was one of the first Retro Renovation readers to show off a vintage pink bathroom that she had embraced wholeheartedly. Her theme: Pink poodles, how appropro. &#8220;Two years ago,&#8221; she says, &#8220;when we were house-hunting, the pink bathroom (and other original 50&#8242;s features) is what sold us on this particular home!&#8221; Her bathroom [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://savethepinkbathrooms.com/2009/07/04/glamorlux-nancys-pink-poodle-bathroom/</link>
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		<title>Pink was not always the color for girls, Blue was not always the color for boys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Real men DO have pink bathrooms. You see, a university professor, Jo Paoletti of the University of Maryland, actually has done extensive academic research studying how it is that the color pink today has come to be associated with girls and the color blue, with boys. Seems like the shift did not begin until the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://savethepinkbathrooms.com/2009/07/04/pink-was-not-always-the-color-for-girls-blue-was-not-always-the-color-for-boys/</link>
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		<title>Taylor agrees: Save The Pink Bathrooms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Taylor was among the two dozen or so RetroRenovation.com readers who attended my first-ever talk on Save The Pink Bathrooms, at the Southern Spring Home &#38; Garden Show in Charlotte, North Carolina, on March 5, 2010. It&#8217;s readers like this who make it all worth while.]]></description>
		<link>http://savethepinkbathrooms.com/2009/07/04/taylor-agrees-save-the-pink-bathrooms/</link>
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		<title>Cindy&#8217;s timeless pink bathroom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s my sister Jenni. She and I drove to Lexington to visit Judi, who took us to Cindy&#8217;s house to see her pink bathroom. Following that? A road trip. To see a pink bathroom. The bathroom was really quite lovely &#8212; Cindy had decorated it in a way that I describe as &#8220;timeless.&#8221; Not kitschy, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://savethepinkbathrooms.com/2009/07/04/cindys-timeless-pink-bathroom/</link>
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		<title>Why Mamie Eisenhower loved pink &#8212; more insight from the Eisenhower National Historic Site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How did America end up with 5 million pink bathrooms? Credit goes to: A super-efficient military wife with sparkling blue eyes. Mamie Doud Eisenhower had a tried-and-true method for setting up new households as she traveled the world with her husband the General. She knew she looked good in pink. Put the two together and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://savethepinkbathrooms.com/2009/07/04/why-mamie-eisenhower-loved-pink-more-insight-from-the-eisenhower-national-historic-site/</link>
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		<title>Susan learns to love her Jack &#8216;n Jill pink bathroom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a pink bathroom bonanza: Here we have not only pink , but also the blog&#8217;s first Jack &#8216;n Jill bathroom. And &#8212; the adorable Susan (above), a first-time homeowner, to tell us all about the bathroom, and her &#8216;new&#8217; 1962 home. Surprise surprise, her note includes this: &#8220;When we first bought the house I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://savethepinkbathrooms.com/2009/07/04/susan-learns-to-love-her-jack-n-jill-pink-bathroom/</link>
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		<title>Jessica&#8217;s pink-bathroom-powered &#8220;Daily Affirmation&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pink bathrooms got a lot of viz when this video of &#8220;Jessica&#8217;s Daily Affirmation&#8221; went viral starting in June 2009. Could it be that this weebit&#8217;s pink bathroom had something to do with her good mood? Reader Donna thinks so: &#8220;I know this isn&#8217;t exactly about renovations, but the bathroom is an excellent pink with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://savethepinkbathrooms.com/2009/07/04/jessicas-pink-bathroom-powered-daily-affirmation/</link>
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		<title>Pink bathrooms (and pink kitchens): Why do we love them so? Science has an answer&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, evolutionary biology pretty much answers all questions about why we like anything. Our partners. Chocolate. Pink bathrooms&#8230;. Our preferences are hard-wired into our brains (which reach all the way down to our stomachs) back to caveman and cavewoman days. Why pink? Well&#8230;for women, scientists hypothesize that our senses are honed to the color as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://savethepinkbathrooms.com/2009/07/04/pink-bathrooms-and-pink-kitchens-why-do-we-love-them-so-science-has-an-answer/</link>
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		<title>Time capsule pink bathrooms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s pretty much nothing we find more exciting than time capsule houses &#8212; homes that have been well tended and haven&#8217;t changed much over the years. We spotlight lots of them on Retro Renovation. And when there&#8217;s a pink bathroom inside &#8211; whoa! stop the presses! That&#8217;s me, at an estate sale where I was [...]]]></description>
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