#28. Paula Cinko

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28. Paula Cinko

2010 Update

There's a very good reason why we skipped over this update in our countdown. We were busy tracking down Paula, and gaining a personal interview with her! She sent us a keepsake letter, including this recent picture. Paula's widened her classic short cut in recent years with a perm. She insists her hair still doesn't fall in her eyes - but don't a couple of strips on either side look long enough to do it?

Paula also sent this surprising photo - from a "blonde period" she tried during the 1990s! Her hair was on the long side of a bowl cut in that era as well.

Paula was on worker's compensation when we talked with her -- away from her Ohio job due to an injury. But she was able to share a lot of information about her decades of success with short hair. Watch for that online exclusive interview in Super-Hair Q&A!

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2008 Update

The Hyde Park restaurant chain now has a web site - but we found no sign of Paula there, except for one page where a short style seems to hide in a corner. So we're still lacking in new pictures, short of making a road trip to Ohio. But we're thrilled to report more photos of Paula's classic Golddiggers look are now posted online. This vid-cap shows the tips of her bangs temptingly looking scattered around the eyebrows. But you have to look long and hard to find a picture where her forehead was exposed, with hair well out of line or threatening to come forward toward her eyes.

If you want to see more of this, we highly recommend "The Golddiggers Super Site" -- indeed a gold mine for people interested in Super-Hair of the early 1970's.

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2006 Update

We thank all of you who have contacted us with "Cinko sightings!" As of this writing, we're pretty sure she's working at an Akron, Ohio top-dollar steak house -- although e-mailers haven't sent any current photos.

The nicest message apparently came from Cinko herself, in September 2004. She wrote Super-Hair: "My hair is still the same for the most part. I was blonde for a while but now I am back to brunette, coloring occasionally to cover any miscellaneous grays. I work as a food server and sales representative at the Hyde Park Grille in Akron Ohio. I used to sing with the band there after work, but the band has been taken away, so I sing in the car, a lot :) I live with my beautiful family, my mother, my brother, his son, and his wife. I have never been married nor have I had any children, and I don't look so bad for someone born in 1950...."

We wrote Paula back asking for an interview, but we haven't heard from her since. (We think she borrowed a family computer and e-mail address to contact us.) If you're in the Akron area and see her, please let her know Super-Hair still wants to talk style secrets with her!

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2004 Update

At the end of 2003, we received e-mail from a longtime friend of Paula. He told us she did many national commercials in New York, then "left for Hollywood." We asked him to help arrange an interview with her for us -- but sadly, we've heard nothing since.

A recent online check uncovered one clue to Paula's whereabouts -- a commercial acting workshop with her name on it, perhaps in the Los Angeles area. But we have no new picture of her, nor even a location for the school. We ask again for your help; write us through the link below if you've spotted this classic short style.

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2002 Update

This is one time when we wish we bought that "Net Detective" software which keeps showing up in our e-mail. Cinko (shown at the top of this picture of the Golddiggers) has seemingly disappeared -- and all we've learned additionally about her is that she appeared in a short-lived Broadway revival of the musical "Good News" in 1974.

(Just to the left of Paula in the picture is another woman whose hair thrilled us during that era - the long blonde locks of Michelle Della Fave.)

Our appeals for help in finding her remain open. If you know where Cinko is now, please let us know. You might also contact a web site which still remembers the Golddiggers, which provided us our latest photo.

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