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Sunday, October 25, 2020


Darryl Powers posed for several photo shoots at Sunshine Beach,
a nudist resort partly owned by Champion owner Walter Kundzicz.

 

9 comments:

  1. I seem to remember seeing an on-line article on a now lost link about Darryl Powers that Sunshine Beach nudist resort was used to get round the censors? Once persuaded, Darryl liked the naturist lifestyle and happily posed nude for Kundzicz.

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    1. That makes sense because some of the first censorship repeal victories were by nudist magazine owners whose pitch to the judges was that they supported a wholesome lifestyle of sunshine and exercise rather than simply sex. Darryl was repeatedly photographed at Sunshine Beach, a place that was not only a good source of models for Walter Kundzicz, but also a good financial investment.

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    2. Interesting. It looks like the page I saw has gone. It included naturist photographs of Darryl as well as the usual physique ones. Good idea using a nudist resort models already happy to be nude.

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  2. I have read that Darryl Powers was one of the relatively few models to use his own name - or, indeed, to be named - because of the legal loophole that allowed nudist publications rather than perceived homoerotic photography. Walter Kundzizc owned the Sunshine Beach Club with Dick Falcon, both of whom were keen to push for legal reform. The Post Office soon started to cause problems and Powers was accused along with Falcon, Kundzizc and other models of "moral torpitude" but the case eventually led to a liberalization of the law.

    At six foot (183cm) and weighing 169 pounds (76.7kg), the brown haired and blue eyed Powers was 19-year-old married man with a child living in a trailer in the bush-lands of Pasco County north of Tampa, Florida, when Kundzizc discovered him. Little did he know that when he moved into the Sunshine Club he was going to play an unintended but pivotal role in the moral revolution that was soon to sweep through the Western world.

    I have a sneaky photo shopped image of him in a rowing boat at the Club where his red swimming trunks have been surreptitiously removed.

    I wonder where he is now...

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    1. Thank you Calorman you posting this. Much of what you said was in the contents of my lost link. As you suggest, unwittingly he played an important part towards more liberal attitudes.

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    2. Thanks for the very interesting details! I'll have to research Darryl for onw of my "whatever happened to" series.

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    3. Well, my initial snooping indicates that Darryl may have actually been Darrel. He seems to have been on the intellectual side in high school, having been on the student newspaper staff and in the library club.

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    4. As far as I can ascertain, the Post Office instigated legal action against Powers, Kundzizc, Falcon et al, for "moral turpitude" in respect of indecent images being sent through the mail in what came to be known as the "Jaybird case", but I can find no other details. Powers lived at the Sunshine Club with his wife and daughter, and posed, clothed and nude, with women and men for various naturist publications which were not illegal. It was his posing with other known and published Physique Pictorial models - Joe Hawkeye Alonzo and Buddy Reagan - that seems to have instigated the litigation. I have one monochrome picture of a full-frontal, bearded and long-haired Powers apparently shot in Florida in the late 60s or very early 70s by Dick Falcon, which is possibly one of a series. The only other biographical details I have are that he was of French and English ancestry.

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    5. My research is in the early stages, but he seems to have remained in Florida after his modeling career ended. If I put together enough material, I'll do a series later.

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