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• Back Lite

  
   

  February 9, 2011 4:08:14 AM PST

  Hi All:
  
  'Hope I'm posting in the right forum.
  
  I was the staff photographer for Monty's & The Fox (Victoria, BC) for about five years. During that period I shot around 5,000 pictures of all major contests & pageants including the Miss Nude Canada Pageant, World Duo Championships (1 & 2), Miss Nude Amateur World, etc., and specialty shoots like Wet-T Contests, Rose Edwards - World's Oldest Stripper, and so on.
  
  I bought all the pics/negs from the hotel owners/mgrs. for $2,500. My idea was to build an adult website using these pics as content. It didn't happen, however I have scanned a few hundred of the negatives (with a Nikon film/slide scanner) and have them catalogued.
  
  I've had the pics/negs in storage for 15, or so, years. If anyone is (seriously) interested in purchasing the whole collection, please contact me ... viwebsites@gmail.com .
  
  Thanks for taking the time to read this.
  Sincerely, BackLite
  
  
• BicycleRob

  

  • 27 posts
   

  February 9, 2011 1:31:22 PM PST

  I collect old magazines with familar faces; i.e. mostly Western Canadian dancers and clubs. I also worked in Victoria the winter before the fall 1995 Monty's pageant.
  
  If there's no commercial interest, I'll make a depreciated offer. I'm a lot busier at work this year, but I'm hoping to drop in again at the Exotic Dancers for Cancer event at the Red Lion (June?).
• StephanieSeeMore

  
   

  February 10, 2011 5:15:48 AM PST

  This is scary. Sorry....
• BicycleRob

  

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  February 10, 2011 1:05:35 PM PST

  I collect memorabilia, I don't publish it. However, I have given away a number of magazines to the dancers in them.
  
  Most Pageants were covered by multiple adult magazines, and all publishable photos require model releases.
  
  The U.S. has the Burlesque Hall of Fame. There's nothing equivalent in Canada - just rapidly vanishing personal collections. I collect what little Canadian content I can find.
  
  After 16 years, I'm skeptical about much commercial interest. However, one Calgary dancer mentioned that some of her model released U.S. photos ended up in 1-900 phone sex ads.
  
  The adult industry now competes with free. Googling "MILF" found 530,000 large images. Used magazines have mostly disappeared, and the store owners tell me that the customers only want DVDs. Most adult magazines stopped publishing Canada dancer pictures around 2005. WinnipegSin.com is no longer registered. SextraMag.com photographed last year's Miss Nude Canada Pageant, but became inactive before they were published.
  
  I wish Anne-Marie Losique success with this fall's launch of the English version of her Vanessa adult channel. Not much else remains in Canada. Her Image Diffusion International company has produced a number of mostly French shows about dancers.

• Back Lite

  
   

  February 11, 2011 4:03:36 AM PST

  BicycleRob wrote...

  Most Pageants were covered by multiple adult magazines, and all publishable photos require model releases.

  The MNCanada Pageant held at Monty's (Victoria, BC) had photographers for Cheri mag shooting on Thurs, Fri & Sat. We got along well and kept in touch for a long time. The owner of the MNC Pageant (whose name I can't remember) was after me for years for copies of my shoot as this was the only pageant he didn't have a photographic record of. (and ... Cheri missed the Mon, Tues & Wed shows).
  
  The World Duo Championships (1 & 2) were not covered by any other photographers. The first year was videotaped by a film group from LA (for Gentlemen's Club) but I believe the company no longer exists. The master tapes (for that year) may exist ... somewhere.
  
  I have model releases for about one-third of the dancers but ALL had to sign to compete in any and all pageants & contests at Monty's. The rest of the releases may still be buried ina pile of paper in the Victoria Plaza Hotel's basement.
  
  Anyway, I have no interest in publishing any of the content but hope to, someday, find a serious collector for this visual piece of history covering the "greatest years" of exotic dance in western Canada.
  
  Thanks for your interesting comments, Rob.
  
  
  
• struparalles

  

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  February 18, 2012 9:01:44 AM PST

  Hello!
  
  I hope It wouldn't be so late, I have copies of one World Duo Championship, from Gentlemen's Club, I think the first one. Unfortunately I don't have the videotape, only the Rip I made a long time ago. And a small copy of MNC pageant of 1998, where Portia (Tammy Morris) and Porscha Lee competed for the best flexi-show. Golden years for the stripping!!
• Mz. Scream

  

  • 35 posts
   

  February 18, 2012 4:55:08 PM PST

  If you have videos or pics please post them. Are albums finally work again. ;-)