Bob Hope's widow may well have been thinking “thanks for the memory's nudge" Wednesday as she celebrated her birthday with friends in Toluca Lake.
Dolores Hope was turning 100, after all. And people she first met seven decades ago were mingling around 10 large picture kiosks set up in her backyard.
The 10-foot-tall displays reflected “the decades of Dolores," as her friends put it. They were a fitting party theme for the woman who was married 69 years to the actor-comedian whose signature theme song was “Thanks for the Memories."
Bob Hope died in 2003 at age 100.
The 1970s kiosk showed photos of President Nixon and other world leaders, performers such as Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Presley and other images of that decade. A video showed scenes of Bob and Dolores Hope entertaining U.S. troops in Vietnam.
In one scene, Dolores sings a song. Her husband then announces to the GIs: “I want to teIl you, today's her birthday . . . and doesn't she look beautiful!"
