Beatrice Beck’s room holds reminders of the work she did during World War II.
Beck, who is 100 and lives with her daughter in Nevada City, helped build planes during the war at what was then Lockheed Aircraft in Southern California. Beck and other women who built planes, ships and more, reflecting a popular icon, Rosie the Riveter that was on wartime posters, in a song and in a film.
In Beck’s room, a framed local newspaper article from last December commemorates her milestone birthday. Multiple Rosie illustrations are on her walls. On a counter, there’s a Rosie the Riveter coffee mug…