Former Miss Texas USA and Miss Universe Chelsi Smith dies at 45
Sep 9, 2018 · Smith won the Miss Texas USA competition in 1995 and went on to become Miss USA and Miss Universe that same year, becoming one of the only bi-racial women to win the pageant world's...
Chelsi Smith - Wikipedia
Miss Texas USA. Smith competed in her first major beauty contest in 1994, when she was a semifinalist in the Miss Texas USA pageant, as Miss South East Texas USA. [8] . The following year, she competed again as Miss Galveston County USA, and won the title, as well as the Miss Congeniality award. [9] .
Chelsi Smith, Miss Universe 1995 from Texas, dies at age 45
Sep 9, 2018 · HOUSTON – Chelsi Smith, Miss Universe 1995, Miss USA and the first African-American to win Miss Texas USA, has died at the age of 45, her family confirmed. Smith, a Deer Park native, lost her...
Grande Dame of the Gulf - Texas Monthly
Of the mythic elements that shaped Texas — the endless expanse of land, the frontier, the quest for water, rugged individualism, cultural isolation, cattle, oil — not one applies to Galveston ...
1926 International Pageant of Pulchritude - Wikipedia
The 39 contestants of the First International Pageant of Pulchritude line up at the beach in Galveston, Texas. Thirty-nine women entered the contest in 1926, with most coming from Texas and its surrounding states.
#ThrowbackThursday! Galveston Island 's Bathing Girl Revue
#ThrowbackThursday! Galveston Island 's Bathing Girl Revue was touted as the precursor to the Miss Universe Pageant. It was a Galveston tradition from.....
Galveston Island Revue Weekend
These Island pageants are said to have been the beginning of what we know today as the Miss Universe Pageant. The famed Galveston Bathing Beauties pageants ended in 1932 due in part to the Great Depression. Today’s Revue Weekend features events Friday through Sunday, the highlight being the Bathing Beauties Contest.
Recently restored 1931 color film shows bathing beauties in Galveston
May 14, 2020 · Recently restored 1931 color film shows bathing beauties in Galveston. Against a backdrop of clear, blue skies and blossoming oleanders, more than two-dozen young women -- resplendent in bathing...
Lisl Goldarbeiter - Jew or Not Jew
Sounds like something from 100 years ago... So let's go back not 100, but 95 years, and the Miss Universe pageant, held in the center of the universe: Galveston, Texas. Errr... here come the caveats.
List of Miss Universe titleholders - Wikipedia
The following is a list of Miss Universe titleholders from the competition's inaugural edition in 1952 to present.
- Some results have been removed