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Prize Pupil — unsigned pulp paperback cover art, 1966 Read more…
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The Schwinn Stingray Fastback.
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Happy New Year, friends!
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‘Yosemite’ Sam Radoff (right), custom car / bike painter and metal sculpting legend.
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wollmaus: merry merry y’all!
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hollyhocksandtulips: Betty Brosmer
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Bunny Yeager It was 1954 when Bunny Yeager, now married, decided to make the switch and get behind the camera. Her own formal modeling experience and creativity gave Bunny a sensitivity, insight and eye that no male photographer could touch. Female models instantly found themselves comfortable working with her, and appreciated the refreshingly caring and honest approach.  It was this same year that Bunny met the baby-banged beauty who will forever be hailed as the gold standard of saucy pin-ups– Bettie Page. Up until that time Bettie was working with the likes of Irving Klaw, and anyone else who would pay, posing for pictures that were exploitive and fetishist at best, and pornographic (by 1950′s puritanical standards) at worst. The union of Bettie & Bunny was short, but sweet. The famous Boca Raton-based Jungle Betty shoot, and Bettie Page’s 1955 January Playboy Playmate Christmas pic, are two notable highlights of their epic partnership. Bettie Page soon drifted away– posing periodically for a few more years here and there, before disappearing almost entirely from the limelight. The tabloids sizzled with sensational speculation on Page’s mysterious disappearance.  Bunny Yeager recalls the day she witnessed firsthand the shift in Bettie Page’s priorities– “It was in the Florida Keys that one night she saw a neon cross on top of a little church, and was drawn to it to go inside. From that day on, she got religious and decided to give up posing.”
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“Beauty is but skin deep, ugly lies the bone; Beauty dies and fades away, but ugly holds its own.”
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This incredible old shot of a regally pimped-out ’70s bachelor / swingers pad is consistently a TSY fan favorite. Hmmm. Read more…
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“Dixie Welcome”, circa 197? from “Living The Life” –Image by © Doug Barber. ”It is one thing to get pulled over for something you know you did wrong. It is another thing to get pulled over for nothing at all. If that wasn’t bad enough– to be pulled over and detained while the man checks your papers three times in a row. That did it. It was all I could stand. Despite the objections of my club brothers, and the obvious police threat, I pulled out my camera and started to take photos. I got about three shots off when the sheriff and deputy stopped me in my tracks. After a failed attempt to discuss my Constitutional Rights with the sheriff who offered, ‘Boy– let me tell you about rights…’ I put away my camera. Later down the road I received some schooling (thumping) from the club on dealing with like situations. After which cold beer, war stories, and brotherhood prevailed. Long and short of it– I got my shot, and here it is. –Doug Barber (AKA Q-Ball) Read more…
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5to1: Bat Cave
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Quite a handful.
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sisterwolf: Tattoo
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The infamous Blaze Starr and her pussy cat. Read more…
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One evening in the old, rickety shop of Bauer Cycles, John Melniczuk, Tommy Grazias, and a group of racing friends were sitting around trying to come up with a name for the bike. Each took turns rifling through an old dictionary searching for a single word to describe the unique, twin-engine Triumph monstrosity. Finally, around the letter P, someone said they had found it. The room grew silent as he read it aloud: “Parasite, an organism living in, with, or on another organism.” That was it, one engine living off of the other. The Parasite had been born. Read more…
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