Thank you to MaryAnn Wallace for allowing me to display her photo. The photo was taken by Ed Finley of the City of Miami Beach's publicity department and used in tourism advertisements in northern newspapers. MaryAnn began modeling at the age of 12, with photos used in American Girl magazine and other fashion magazines but she thought working for the city's publicity department was more fun. One photo of her was used on the wall of a train's dining car. She says that she had photo sessions at the prestigious "new" Eden Roc Hotel and the Fontainebleau Hotel where Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin performed in the Pink Poodle Room.

MaryAnn was born at Jackson Memorial Hospital and lived in Cocoanut Grove. She attended Silver Bluff Kindergarten, Coconut Grove Elementary, Ponce de Leon Junior High and graduated from Coral Gables Senior High in 1955. She then moved from Miami to attend Brenau Academy in northern Georgia. Her dad, Ben Wallace, owned a service station at Dixie Highway and SW 32 Avenue and the Wallace Garage on Munday Street in the Grove, when he wasn't building roads in Central and South America.

MaryAnn also graciously submitted her dad's photo of Paley's Big Wheel that is also on display on this site. MaryAnn's website has been discontinued but she is on Facebook under the name of MaryAnn Bierer.