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1960s Tiki Erotica (WARNING: NUDITY)

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martian-tiki posted on 12/20/2010


Nudism Today #14 April 1966 Volume 3 Number 2
The Swallows Sun Island Club was near San Diego California.
It closed in 2008 according to a web search and operated over fifty years.

Nudist literature seems fond of putting polynesian culture on a pedestal. That doesn't seem to translate into more than an occasional isolated tiki or luau.



RAW!
1965 Number 3

In addition to a surprise appearance by the "Suffering Durante" with an unknown model - this issue is most notable for having an article on the nudie cutie comedy movie "Tales of a Salesman"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0259035/ which can be purchased from Something Weird Video. Also there is an article on Vicky Dee aka Adele Rein from the movie http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0717870/

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bigbrotiki posted on 12/20/2010

Martian, your expertise in your subject of interest is unsurpassed - and now you have developed remarkable Tiki-vision, too. That out-of-focus blob would have gone by my radar for sure.

It proves again that certain locations -like the "Suffering Durante" inhabited pool- were used again and again as locations, with the models varying.

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bigtikidude posted on 12/21/2010

(stock response)
wait, there was a tiki in that picture?

Jeff(btd)

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socksoff posted on 12/21/2010

Man, those boobs look delicious.

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martian-tiki posted on 12/28/2010

Another discovery of the fortunate Marquesan wall idol. This is almost certainly a mid-sixties photoshoot despite the issue publication date.

(See page 20 for previously discovered photoshoots the idol participated in
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?mode=viewtopic&topic=1389&forum=1&start=327 )

I find it sort of interesting that 3 of the 4 models so far with this idol are also nudie-cutie actresses ( Colleen O'Brien, Carol Turner previously) So the photographer was certainly based in the L.A. area.

This model/actress is Carol Baughmann http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2833316/ Her most notable film in my opinion is Mondo Keyhole where she plays a girl that placed a classified ad for a good time that attracted the attention of the films serial rapist. Unfortunately for him Carol's best friend is a lesbian, played by Cathy Crowfoot, that knows the exotic martial art...KARATE!

Filmography

1966 Mondo Keyhole
Carol (as Carole Baughman)

1965 International Smorgas-Broad

1964 My Tale Is Hot
Cutey-Beauty of Hell and the Harem (uncredited)

1966 Mondo Freudo (documentary)
Joseph Lorenzo's Body-Painting Model (uncredited)

Charger
Volume 1 Number 5
February 1970
model Carol Baughman

High resolution scans at
http://www.martiantiki.com/charger-feb1970/

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martian-tiki posted on 12/31/2010

This issue of Click features an article inspired by this book

WASHBURNE, CHANDLER. Primitive drinking. A study of the uses and functions of alcohol in preliterate societies.
College and Univesity Press: New York, 1961.

Which I trust should be required reading for this forum now that we know it exists.

The model with the voodoo tiki god is Sandy Lane.

Cathy Crowfoot was a prolific actress and model in the 1960s. A luckily she's in a pictorial mentioning a Pagan Isle-good enough for this thread's scope.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0189696/

I mentioned her in the post above as she was the star of Mondo Keyhole that costarred Carol Baughman. People on this forum most likely have seen Cathy Crowfoot in Mermaids of Tiberon - she was the mermaid that regretably got harpooned by the villians.

Additionally, this pictorial may be a useful guide for backyard pool landscaping for sunny California residents?

Other notable models in this issue are Mickey Jines who played a ghost Hula girl in Ed Wood's Orgy of the Dead and Julie Williams who was in Russ Meyer's Wild Gals of the Naked West.
(Which is all lots of keywords for the search engines.)

Click
Volume 2 Number 1
1964
High Resolution http://www.martiantiki.com/click-v2n1/

Cathy Crowfoot

Cathey Crowfoot

Cathy Crofoot

Cathy Crowfoot

Cathy Crowfoot

Cathy Crowfoot

Cathy Crowfoot

Revels
Number 1
No Date (early 1960's)
High Resolution http://www.martiantiki.com/revels/

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bigbrotiki posted on 12/31/2010

Mahalo, Martian, your passion for your subject and the work you do to share it is much appreciated! I believe I had asked here before if it is known which coast Sandy Lane was working at: Would it be Florida, the Voodoo sculpture could very well be a Van DerCar work. Is it L.A., that ridiculous devil doll would most likely have hailed from the ROSHU prop house, like the Tiki I mention in this thread:

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=2910&forum=1&17

Roshu was a supper tacky 60s prop rental house which I had the fortune to have set pieces rented from for several music videos I shot in the 80s.

The "Tabu Drinks" and "Cathy's Pagan Isle" articles are nice too, but considering what the photos COULD have been like with the addition of a few Tiki mugs and statues (which would have been readily available back then) they are a little disappointing. Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems to me that these skin mags basically bought generic photo sessions from photographers, and then gave their copy writers the job to come up with evocative headlines and captions - or vice versa, an article written about a specific subject like pagan drink rituals would be illustrated by some nude pics with only faint relation to the text because they were available. That would explain the stylistic disconnect.

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martian-tiki posted on 01/01/2011

I still do not know which coast Sandy Lane was on - unfortunately there is no identifying clues in that issue - though I'm inclined to think you are right that it is a likely Van DerCar. My hunch is that an LA area prop and figure model would tend to show up more often.

As archaeologists - the absence of tiki mugs and statues in these situations can teach us about the culture of atomic jet age man too (or at least specific photographers), as regrettable as their absence is to our modern tastes.

"Because they were available" is probably the most accurate thing that could be said about photos accompanying articles - having seen many nonsense captions on movie stills and much recycling of material.

I suppose one is forced to conclude that tiki mugs didn't portray the idealized playboy lifestyle that wine, martinis, and champagne did (at least based on a quick search I just did). Although that first Highball cover seems to be an attempt at a tiki bar albeit with an Inca statue.

Could it be that an absence of tiki mugs in girlie mags indicates that those mugs were already available and commonplace to the reader and thus LACKED the playboy sex fantasy appeal these magazines were trying to sell?! If true it would be ironic that the Polynesian fantasy in the form of mugs was unsellable, although thats not to say many hula girls didn't give it their best shot.

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bigbrotiki posted on 01/01/2011

Whoa! What a cavalcade of cocktail cuties !!!

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Potato. posted on 01/01/2011

I can't compete with Martian Tiki, so this is the best I could do.

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martian-tiki posted on 01/01/2011

Potato - you win.

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Potato. posted on 01/01/2011

Aww, shucks. I kid, but I am truly in awe with each new post at your extensive collection and knowledge of such... literature.

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martian-tiki posted on 01/01/2011

I have knowledge of such literature as I got it in my head at some point that indexing modeling appearances of sexploitation actresses would accomplish something.
For the most part its dumb luck if a tiki god shows up as well, or some socially redeeming article on tahiti - though lately if I see something Polynesian themed I'll try to get it. And sometimes browsing ebay turns something interesting up too - like this negative auction (which if anyone is interested in I hope they'll track down)

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martian-tiki posted on 01/02/2011

Auction photos for things out of my price range

Nudist Sun, V1#2, Sept. 1964


Solar Scene #2 1967

Slip & Garter v1 n1 1962



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Sunset Mike posted on 01/03/2011

I gotta say, I really like this forum!

Every time I look in we've got new "Old" stuff. Maybe it's memories, dis-illusion with the present or just remembering when being naughty was really exciting; because you had to slip into a forbidden realm of the dark subsurface world of sin to access it!

Reality sets in, it was never really better.

"For all that's lost is valued dear that cannot be retrieved
and those who value time well spent would sooner give youth leave

So why do I like it? Who cares why?

Enjoy! enjoy! enjoy!

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TheBigT posted on 01/03/2011

Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems to me that these skin mags basically bought generic photo sessions from photographers, and then gave their copy writers the job to come up with evocative headlines and captions - or vice versa, an article written about a specific subject like pagan drink rituals would be illustrated by some nude pics with only faint relation to the text because they were available. That would explain the stylistic disconnect.

The captions aren't genuine?! :o

Well, great pics anyway. :wink:

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martian-tiki posted on 01/08/2011

Today's post featuring the hideous stone god centerfold.
To learn more about the hideous stone god see http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=2910&forum=1

The Showboat issue centerfold is rather common and shows up multiple times on tiki central. However - since the Salome one hasn't - I must conclude that image of the blond with the hideous stone god is new to tiki archeological science.

High Resolution images of both magazines at
http://www.martiantiki.com/stonegod

Showboat
Volume 2 Number 1
1964

The socially redeeming article on world travel is rather disillusioned with jet-age Tahiti.

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Salome
Volume 1 Number 1
1961
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I don't know what's going on in this photo but I suspect some people might find it interesting.

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Tobor64 posted on 01/08/2011

I love that last photo. Looks like a publicity still from a movie...?

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bigtikidude posted on 01/10/2011

this thread is in need of having the photos replaced before all others,
from the TC crash.
:o

Jeff(btd)

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christiki295 posted on 01/10/2011

On 2011-01-09 16:08, bigtikidude wrote:
this thread is in need f having the photos replaced before all others,
from the TC crash.
:o

Jeff(btd)

Not a bad idea, LOL!

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martian-tiki posted on 01/11/2011

Things found looking for hawaii auctions....
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Apparantly the model in this image is British model
Pamela Green http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Green

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martian-tiki posted on 01/16/2011

1950's women found on auction site inapropriately wear hawaiian flying fish or garland lei.

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The model misusing the lei is Sherry Knight.

The flying fish one was on a postcard according to the auction - but my understanding is that's how drugstore photo developers would print photos so it's probably a vacation photo or an amateur camera club member.

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martian-tiki posted on 01/16/2011

This pictorial features a fan from the Aku Aku in Las Vegas.

You may recall model Margo Sweet from these images posted previously. She was also in a movie called Beach Girls and the Monster as one of the beach dancers touted in the trailer as recruited from the Whiskey-A-Go-Go club (which is mentioned in the pictorial scan too and is a fun keyword for search engines.)

Beach Girls and the Monster trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnlL4yKrD2s

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Anyway she's the cover model on this Tigress issue.

I cropped the images seperately too so only the points of interest remain since some people are easily distracted. Also there was a tiki graphic in the next pictorial so I included that page too - but I'm not going to bother with the "context."

Also that home tiki bar was in that Highball issue image that got lost in the recent server crash - but it will show up soon.

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Tigress
Volume 3 Number 1
January 1966

high resolution scans at http://www.martiantiki.com/tigress-v3n1

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Sunset Mike posted on 01/20/2011

"As a child I was blessed with a curious mind

And a sleepy, incompetent nurse!

One day I discovered my father’s top drawer,

Where I found my old man was perverse!

It’s a wonder I turned out as well as I did

I’m not nearly as warped as before

I’m not sick, God forbid! I was only a kid,

Who grew up in his father’s top drawer!"

  • Peter Alsop; "My Father's Top Drawer"

http://www.peteralsop.com/SongsOnSexSexuality.htm#FathersDrawer

For those interested the above address contains the lyrics to the above song by Peter Alsop. This topic always makes me think of this song and the good old days when sex was naughty and therefore,tons of fun!

[ Edited by: Sunset Mike 2011-01-20 00:13 ]

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HelloTiki posted on 01/28/2011

I hope someone makes a best-seller book out of this thread. Thanks everyone!

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torrealbart posted on 02/03/2011

TIKI QUEEN OF BOOBS

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Hi, see more in http://jesustorrealba.blogspot.com

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kirby posted on 02/03/2011

that looks alot like a painting I did in 2005,hmmmm.
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spy-tiki posted on 02/16/2011

Iris Bristol 1959

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bigtikidude posted on 02/16/2011

OH MY

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Tipsy McStagger posted on 02/16/2011

On 2011-01-08 11:20, Tobor64 wrote:
I love that last photo. Looks like a publicity still from a movie...?

I think that was the same movie set used in the elvis movie "girl happy"...... the place where they saw elvis perform and then a brawl breaks out... it was tiki themed and had tikis similiar to those flanking the stage.....

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The Mod Jetsetter posted on 02/16/2011

I'm usually a lurker and post 1x a year or so, but I have to add one of my recent faves to the greatest thread ever!

Model: Heidi Van Horne
Photographer: Tiki Ray

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Swanky posted on 02/17/2011

If anyone is interested: This magazine has some good Mai-Kai girl pics in it and it's cheap right now! Not my auction, just spreading the love.

The images are HERE from my 2003 Hukilau website.

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Swanky posted on 02/18/2011

And, as fate would have it, THIS ONE showed up today also.

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msteeln posted on 02/18/2011

"Frolicking in the Mai Kai fountains, waitresses keep in shape with a playful session tossing flowered leis around."

See girls, it's just that easy, no excuses!

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martian-tiki posted on 02/19/2011

Various hula and lei girls found on ebay....

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another image of British model Pamala Green

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Etudes Plastiques 1950s French magazine

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Stag 10-1975

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christiki295 posted on 03/02/2011
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thePorpoise posted on 03/02/2011

so nice to be able to recall the days of more lush landscaping...

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thejab posted on 03/13/2011

From PLUSH, November 1959

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bigbrotiki posted on 03/14/2011

"One night she did an impromptu strip at the Aloha Club -and there she stayed - as a stripper."

Yeah right, a likely story! :D
After our TC eyes have been sensitized by the extensive Frank Bowers research on this site:

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?mode=viewtopic&topic=34053&forum=1&start=0

...we could not fail but notice his characteristic brush work in the background, and did not hesitate to identify the true location as being the Zamboanga, home to Bowers' most famous mural of them all:

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(also found on page 144 of Tiki Modern)

It looks like Dee's cymbals...

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...are replacing the gong that hung on the left side of the stage:

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And it seems she is striking a similar pose than the three native basket bearers behind her.
Nice work, Dee!

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JOHN-O posted on 03/14/2011

On 2011-03-13 19:44, bigbrotiki wrote:
...we could not fail but notice his characteristic brush work in the background, and did not hesitate to identify the true location as being the Zamboanga, home to Bowers' most famous mural of them all:

And I'm still scheming to get into that place. It's a VFW hall right now. I call and call, but they never pick-up the phone.

If there are any African American Vietnam War veteran Tikiphiles out there who can assist, please PM me.

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bigtikidude posted on 03/14/2011

On 2011-03-13 21:27, JOHN-O wrote:
If there are any African American Vietnam War Veteran Tikiphiles out there,

Um, I think that you are gonna come up nil on that Request John O.

Jeff(btd)

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JOHN-O posted on 03/14/2011

Don't stereotype BTD. I had beers earlier today with TikiVato at Embers Lounge.

That guy is an old-school Boyle Heights homeboy and retired police detective.

He's as passionate about Tiki as you OC white boys (uh, I mean Caucasians). :D

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bigtikidude posted on 03/14/2011

who you callin white?
I bet I am probably darker than you.
:o
From,workin out in the sun all the time.

Jeff(btd)

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TikiVato posted on 03/14/2011

John-O,

Had a great time picking your brain on all the vintage bars in our old neighbor. Regarding the Zamboanga's on Slauson. I am a card carrying VFW member and can probably get us in there. Let me know when you want to go.(daytime hours and on the weekends)

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PiPhiRho posted on 03/14/2011

Not that it makes any difference now, but the guy that owned the Zamboanga was a friend of my grandfather, who lived off Slauson in Hyde Park not far from there. Of course they're all long dead now and my father barely remembers the place. So close but still so far.

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christiki295 posted on 03/14/2011

[i]On 2011-03-13 19:44, bigbrotiki wrote:
...we could not fail but notice his characteristic brush work in the background, and did not hesitate to identify the true location as being the Zamboanga, home to Bowers' most famous mural of them all:

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(also found on page 144 of Tiki Modern)

It looks like Dee's cymbals...

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...are replacing the gong that hung on the left side of the stage:

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And it seems she is striking a similar pose than the three native basket bearers behind her.
Nice work, Dee!

I'll invite myself to go along.
Maybe I can help.

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thejab posted on 03/21/2011

Sven: Thanks for ID-ing that nightclub. Great eye for detail, as always. I didn't even notice the background, ha!

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bigbrotiki posted on 03/21/2011

My pleasure, it's my way of having fun. Here's my photo archeology tip: After scanning a restaurant photo, always lighten up the background, and you will discover previously invisible-to-the-human-eye details. Just did that here, also:

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=34159&forum=2&start=15&23

(...see bottom two posts)

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