Pulp International - Page from the Goodtime Calendar of 1963 with photo by Russ Meyer

Jul 28 2012

Modern bikini science proves no match for millions of years of female evolution.

The Goodtime Weekly Calendar of 1963 offers up a shot for the end of July of famed glamour model June Wilkinson, who seems ready to fall out of her bikini. A couple of the week’s quips touch on the subject of that garment as well, and the interest is understandable. Bikinis had been introduced in their modern form seventeen years earlier in Europe, but it took Brigitte Bardot to make them widely known with her 1950s film appearances, Ursula Andress to truly bring them into the American mainstream with her debut in 1962’s Dr. No, and apparently Russ Meyer—the photographer behind this shot—to test their tensile limits by wrapping one around a woman who was known as "The Bosom." Of course, Meyer being Meyer, if the bikini did actually manage to hold together, you can bet he simply put it on increasingly larger models until—snap!—Houston, we seem to be experiencing structural failure, please advise. Who said science can’t be fun?

July 28: Sometimes the less you give the more you’ll see of her. Such is the case with a bikini.

July 29: No sickness makes a man sicker than to be sick during his vacation.

July 30: A headwaiter’s tip to a blonde waitress: “Take good care of the guy. He tips at toll bridges.”

July 31: “A Las Vegas dancer is a walking telephone switchboard. When she works all her lines are busy.”—Jerry Vale

August 1: Sign on a display of bikinis: “If nothing else succeeds, try next to nothing.”

August 2: “When a girl’s youth has been well spent she starts to look around for another.”—Joe Hamilton

August 3: “My uncle takes a drink now and then, just to steady himself. Sometimes he gets so steady he can’t move.”—George Gobel

Goodtime Weekly Calendar Russ Meyer George Gobel Joe Hamilton Jerry Vale June Wilkinson