Article Photos: Decades of Miss Subways smiled on NYC straphangers



  This 2007 photo provided by Fiona Gardner shows Maureen Walsh Roaldsen at the Appellate court in Brooklyn, New York where she was an attorney. Roaldsen appeared on placards in the New York City subways during Feb.âAug. 1968 in the âMeet Miss Subwaysâ campaign that ran for 35 years as eye candy to bring attention to other advertisements in New Yorkâs transit system. "Meet Miss Subways: New York's Beauty Queens 1941-76," is now an exhibition at the New York Transit Museum running Oct. 23-March 25, and a companion book of the same name with current-day photos of the women by photographer Fiona Gardner. (AP Photo/Fiona Gardner)

This 2007 photo provided by Fiona Gardner shows Maureen Walsh Roaldsen at the Appellate court in Brooklyn, New York where she was an attorney. Roaldsen appeared on placards in the New York City subways during Feb.–Aug. 1968 in the “Meet Miss Subways” campaign that ran for 35 years as eye candy to bring attention to other advertisements in New York’s transit system. "Meet Miss Subways: New York's Beauty Queens 1941-76," is now an exhibition at the New York Transit Museum running Oct. 23-March 25, and a companion book of the same name with current-day photos of the women by photographer Fiona Gardner. (AP Photo/Fiona Gardner)