Read enough of Vilma’s old diary entries and her distinct voice—confident, sweet, but tinged with a bit of sass—will start to seep through each line. For her daughters Miriam and Victoria Caldwell, this was nothing new. They had grown used to her strong personality and grounded principles over the years. When Vilma passed away in May of 2012, the Caldwell sisters, eager to hear that voice again, started flipping through her diaries and poring over boxes of old photos she’d left behind. What they expected to find was simple nostalgia—a way to revive their mother’s days working as a keepsake photographer—aka a “camera girl”—at two Clifton’s Cafeteria locations in downtown from 1952 to 1954. As they leapt from one entry to another, they found something…View Original PostThe post The Secret Life of a Camera Girl in 1950s L.A. appeared first on Los Angeles Magazine.