(27 Mar 2025)
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Los Angeles – 27 March 2025
1. Various exteriors Betty White stamp day of issue event
2. Wide unveiling of Betty White stamp image
3. Various Ellis Hall performs "Golden Girls" theme "Thank You For Being a Friend"
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Lichtenstein, GLAZA board member::
"Who didn’t love Betty White? Her smile, her sense of humor, her basic decency. Our country, our city, and yes, even our LA zoo would be much better if more people followed her example. Betty White put her stamp on everyone and anyone she came in contact with. Betty White, forever our golden girl."
7. Various Betty White stamp image on display at event
8. Various USPS workers sell Betty White stamps and souvenirs
STORYLINE:
Betty White is making her mark on the nation’s snail mail. The beloved actor of “The Golden Girls” fame was celebrated with a new U.S. Postal Service stamp at a first-day-of-issue ceremony at the Los Angeles Zoo on Thursday.
Fans that were crowded behind barricades cheered as a blue curtain dropped to reveal the stamp featuring a portrait of White against a violet-colored background with lighter shades of bubbly spots in a nod to her sparkling personality. She wears a blue polka-dot blouse and peeking out of her blond curls is an earring shaped like a pawprint.
The illustration is based on a photo taken by Kwaku Alston in 2010.
At the celebration, singer-songwriter Ellis Hall performed a snippet of “Thank You for Being a Friend,” the theme song to “The Golden Girls.”
White had worked with the zoo since its opening in 1966 until her death in December 2021, a couple weeks shy of her 100th birthday.
“Who didn’t love Betty White?” said Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association board member Richard Lichtenstein. “Her smile, her sense of humor, her basic decency. Our country, our city and yes, even our Los Angeles Zoo, would be much better if more people followed her example. Betty White put her stamp on everyone and anyone she came in contact with.”
People lined up to purchase panes of 20 forever stamps, pins and notecards before getting first-day cancellations near a churro snack stand while schoolchildren walked by.
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