Obscure, regional, and long-forgotten girly mags from the 1960s–1980s
Not Playboy. Not Penthouse. Not Hustler. The little ones. The regional gentleman's magazines that sold a few thousand copies at gas stations and drugstores within a hundred miles of where they were printed, and that nobody ever thought to archive. I've been hunting them down at estate sales, storage auctions, and on eBay for fifteen years. This is what I've found.
A storage unit in Milwaukie, Oregon. Four boxes of magazines, negatives, and production materials. And a story about a Portland businessman named Dale Whitfield who spent four years publishing the Pacific Northwest's most obscure gentleman's magazine.
Why I started scanning my collection of obscure girly mags, and why the little regional titles nobody saved are the ones that matter most.