I've got this uncle. The Black Sheep of the family I guess you'd call him. Uncle Stan. If my parents were talking about Stan and you came into the room, well, all discussion would stop and they would pretend they were talking about the weather or something.
So I start wondering about this guy. My Mom's brother. We rarely saw him and he was never invited to, you know, Thanksgiving or anything. What's the big deep dark secret? What's up with Uncle Stan.
When I graduated High school, to everyone's chagrin, Uncle Stan shows up at the ceremony! I guess he read about it in the local paper or something but, anyway, I hadn't seen Uncle Stan in years and years. And he's all "How ya been Brucie! Long time, no see!" When nobody was looking he stuffed an envelope into my graduation gown which contained a hunnert and fifty bucks! Cash! You could buy a car for that kind of dough back then.
So me and Uncle Stan became, well, kind of buds you know? He gave me his business card which said something like "H&S publishing." Like I knew what that meant. Anyway my mom is telling me to "Respect your Uncle but...but stay away from him. Do you understand young man?"
OK, now I'm really interested! I'd been working at McDonalds...Yes, that McDonalds but they'd sold, like, two dozen burgers back then and Ronald McDonald hadn't been invented and I was making a buck forty an hour. So one day I looked at this business card and I called Uncle Stan. Told him I was working for peanuts and, could he use some help at his business for the summer?
He's all thrilled to hear from me and invites me down to "Intern" at H&S and he says "You're gonna love this job!" Plus, I get three bucks an hour! A shitload of money for 1967. I'm wondering what kind of business this is that a know nothing asshole like me can walk into and get that kind of dough.
I work there, like, a week and I'm all "OOOOHH!" You take nasty pictures of naked girls and sell them nationwide! That's how he makes all this money. I come to figure out that Harry, technically a "Salesman," actually owns the company. He used to do nudist magazines back in the fifties. You know the kind. Mostly silly pictures of families playing Volleyball at the beach but then a few pages of naked girls who were "Interviewed" about their nudists lifestyle. There were accompanying photos that, at some point, managed to show a hint of pussy lips, in addition to the usual, kind of acceptable pubic hair shots you always saw in those mags.
As the times changed and the photos became more explicit, Harry was unable to adapt so he brought in Uncle Stan who knew how to "Push the Envelope" so to speak. Oh he pushed the envelope all right. I never met or even heard of a sleazier character than my Uncle Stan. You name it, he somehow reamed it! He would hire these girls to be a "Receptionist" for the company and more often than not would end up shooting nude photos of them for his magazines!
How he did it It's hard to explain but he was absolutely ruthless and knew all the angles. He was famous for having these Receptionists type up checks for the models at these exaggerated figures when he always paid the models in cash and they were lucky to get a hundred bucks. Sometimes he would have them get undressed, shoot a dozen or so pictures of them and then say "I'm sorry sweetheart, but you just don't have what it takes to appear in an H&S magazine." These girls would leave all disappointed and Stan would publish their photos anyway! If they ever complained, which they almost never did, he would just tell them to have their mother come down and they would discuss the matter further!
If Stan got just the right girl, he knew he could make a lot of dough on her and he would carry her for a while as an "Employee' until he conned her into posing nude. I used to wonder why these girls never got wise. Hardly anyone ever came in the office so we really didn't need a receptionist. Stan used to bust his ass trying to figure out what he could make the receptionist type up to keep her busy! It was kind of funny really.