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Jim Wills and Randy tynnAnd finding itSeeking famemNakedCityXL MESSERSCHMIDTsuntan approaches a deepOff it came. Off it all came in the screens himself with cardboardbackwoods of Indiana as the Northwest and never has been arrestedsuburbs burst from the nude dreamland waukee beachescan’t enter anything like this ith a serious purpose,” Bacon said.FOR SIX HOURS Saturday, Nakedmen and women, seeking City, a non-mapped stopoff InterstateRte. 65 in northeastern Indiana, wasplayground for an estimated army of 5,000 photographers seeking pictures of nude women and men. Rain in In-Tam ur a of Buffalo Grove who dianapolis and threat of rain in Chicagoalked off with the Miss Nude America held attendance below last year’s 8,500called Naked City last weekend.Cameras clicked, spectators ogled and contestants sizzled under the hot sunmoney and fame, bared all for theof Mr. and Miss Nude America.Local talent was in continuous focus as:title.Hanover Parkmous nude sun bather, who shared judging honors with Zip the Chimp, the malt star of the movie “Deep Throat and twc naked female volunteers from the aubut still filled the resort bank accountwith a $30,000 profit.For $3, spectators could stand for lt;photo with one of the nude contestants The price was only $2 if the spectator’!used for the photodiencestreakingNitro, the star nude dancer the Cheetah II, north of Wheelingtemptingataketo take it all off.” As newfound nudists didn’t win and almost was dis- exposed lily-white areas to the sun whilequalified because she wore a platinum swimming, trampolining and playingwig.THE NAKEDNESS WAS nothing to the brunette Miss Tamura, a for Playboy Corp. secretary and go-go dancer, but winning the contest was a surprise. Like former winners of the much-pubheized contest, Miss Tamura was a last-minute entry. Other dancers at the Cheetah II, including Miss Nitro, late Friday talked her into the 90-minute cartrip to the nudist camp.“This was a spur-of-the-moment thing.All these other girls were talking about entering and I said ‘Why shouldn t I?The $1,000 first prize, the publicity, the guaranteed appearances are a boost for a modeling or dancing career. “Suddenly, my life isn’t all mine.” she said. Sunday was spent at Naked City posing for promotional material. Tuesday, she flies to New York and a possible appearance on the Johnny Carson Show.“They’re trying to make this like a Miss America thing and are promoting itheavy this year,” she said.FOR THIS YEAR’S winner and for other contestants, Naked City is a fac ade.The Taffy Tamuras, the Miss Nitros, the photosley ball Saturday, Drost offered tubes of skin-lone oil for protection.Naked City T-shirts, bikinis, sunglasses and souvenirs moved like hot cakes because the sales stand window allowed the only peep into contest headquarters. The gold-windowed, non-air-conditioned building was decorated with photos of former contestants, a wide array of photographic and radio equipment and the Hugh Hefner-type bed of camp founder Dick Drost. The building is known as the“Dick Drost Mansion.”DROST BEGAN THE contest about 45 minutes late, at 2:45 p.m., when the Indiana sun had pushed the temperature to near 90 degrees. To the background music of a Beethoven symphony, the nude hopefuls circled the huge cement sundial that uses a gold replica of a woman’s leg to cast its shadow. With formality, a tape recording of the “Star Spangled Banner” announced the beginning of the contestand Drost began an introduction of themale contestants.The women watched as the men audi-but fewer cameras clickedJudys and Alices with no last namespear behind obvious stage names. Theyvisited.represent statesTheyneverprance and dance for a questionablyglamourous title in the dusty, sun-baked middle of an out-of-the-way forest.“Whv enter?” said Randy Lynn, a Cin-Then came the women. “This is what I'm really waiting to see,” Drost said.With each name, the balloon-carrying contestants circled the sundial, walked to the stage and showed all to the crowd while standing on a revolving platform. The first significant murmur from thecinnati yearHIMwho won the title last crowd followed Miss Tamura around theFor the fun. Only for the fun. Inever won a nude contest before andthought it would be fun.Drawing fewer raves from the mostly-male spectator-photographers are theMr. Nude Americas. Dick Bacon of Milwaukee won the title in 1973 and gained$500 when heNaked City onvacation trip.Bacon laughs when he talks about his title. “It paid for my vacation,” he said.More important is Bacon’s attempt “toBacon, whosereach my natural colorRepresenting New Jersey because another contestant grabbed Illinois, Miss Tamura was introduced by Drost as “39-21-35, a secretary and go-go dancer fromBuffalo Grove, III.”Three contestants including Miss Tamura. second-place finisher Dotty Raines of Dayton, and Sunny Day, of Baltimore, won the judges eyes and moved to the semifinals — and then Miss Tamura waa queen of the contest and Stephen Long,31, a postal employe from Indianapolis, was Mr. Nude America.
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Wheeling, Illinois, US
Tue, Aug 06, 1974
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