ASA Days

Revisit the American Sunbathing Association’s golden age. Learn about sun clubs past and present; meet our brave pioneers and icons; and share your stories. Open to all history buffs who have completed their NCH profile and made it public.

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Founded: Jul 1, 2010
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THE (BARE) TRUTH IN ADVERTISEMENT There’s the old adage that SEX SELLS; but does simple wholesome nudity have the same effect? Such is this rhetorical query. Here are some interpretive vintage magazine adverts that would certainly a...	43	4650	May 1, 2013	FireProf
WESTERN NUDIST RESEARCH LIBRARY ☼ The Western Nudist Research Library was established to house a broad collection of nudist magazines, books, journals, memorabilia and photographs documenting social nudism through the golden a...	4	1166	Apr 28, 2013	MaacZaara
SEA ISLAND SANCTUARY Sea Island Sanctuary on South Carolina’s Cat Island was a mysterious spit of land that was accessible only by boat in the early 1930s. According to articles by Lee Baxandall and Greg Hambrick, this w...	2	2209	Apr 17, 2013	Mikpar
PARADISE VALLEY CLUB ☼ Paradise Valley Club is one of a plethora of nudist retreats that thrived in the 1950s and ’60s, only to disappear with nary a trace. Chartered in 1964 by the American Health Alliance, it ...	2	1256	Apr 17, 2013	Mikpar
MOVIE: GARDEN OF EDEN Garden of Eden is the first naturist documentary since the 1930s to be filmed under the auspices of the ASA and the first of its genre to be in colour. By claiming to be “educational,” this 1954 fil...	13	4735	Apr 16, 2013	FireProf
JARDÍN DEL SOL ☼ Jardín del Sol took pride in its good location that enabled its guests to enjoy tranquility whilst taking in nature's beauty. Overlooking the town of Marana on a vast 52-hectare portion of Ar...	8	4813	Apr 14, 2013	tlyoung
other memories ... My memories go back to the magazines of the '60s and beyond but, unlike some, I have no copies left from which I could send in pictures. There are names, however, that I recall. Besides the Linda alre...	4	5460	Feb 19, 2013	Mikpar
SUNNY TRAILS CLUB ☼ Sunny Trails Club was founded in 1952 by the Father of Canadian Nudism, Ray Connett. Inspired by American nudist magazines and visits to British naturist parks, he created a novel idea: A soc...	2	12274	Feb 17, 2013	Mikpar
ILSLEY BOONE Rev. Ilsley Boone was pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church of the Ponds in Oakland, New Jersey, during the 1920s when social nudism in the United States was still unknown. In autumn 1929, Kurt Barthel...	3	3259	Jan 22, 2013	Mikpar
THE A S A JOURNALS The history of nudist magazines and that of the American Sunbathing Association walked congruent courses. Though 1933 is traditionally accepted as the genesis of North American soci...	2	1618	Jan 22, 2013	Mikpar
Regional Nudist Libraries In addition to the American Nudist Research Library (ANRL) on the grounds of Cypress Cove in Florida, there are several others in two of the AANR regions and two two more in the works. The AANR-West ...	1	184	Jan 20, 2013	Mikpar
Moonstone Beach Rhode Island Did anyone here go there in the 70's. It's where I first experienced social nudism. I totally dug it and have been hooked ever since. 8)...	4	595	Sep 28, 2012	hojo
BAJA CALIFORNIA The 1960s were called the jet age but only a limited number of people actually flew in the speedy birds back then. The jets only traveled between big population centres; most people who seek seclus...	3	1985	Sep 26, 2012	FireProf
JUNE LOEBER June Loeber was an atypical icon from the ASA Days. Unlike many of her contemporaries, she wasn’t a teenager from a nudist family growing up in front of the camera. Rather, June was already in her m...	7	5794	Aug 29, 2012	SunBunny
OAKLEAF RANCH Oakleaf Ranch was yet another one of those shining stars in the ASA constellation of chartered clubs that shone brightly in the 1950s and ’60s only to quietly fade into memory; but it did leave its ma...	5	6185	Aug 21, 2012	T
SWALLOWS SUN ISLAND Swallows / Sun Island is a tale of two clubs. In northern San Diego County was a retreat known as the Sun Island Club which had leased for several years a eucalyptus and oak forested three hundred a...	7	5811	Aug 20, 2012	Sunluvr60
SUNNY PALMS LODGE Sunny Palms Lodge was a South Florida destination for people all along the Atlantic Coast looking for a year ’round get-away to work on that all ’round tan. Nestled amongst the tall reed grass and co...	2	4545	Nov 25, 2011	ANDYbee
RENA BJÖRNSSON ☼ Rena Björnsson was a spirited teen when she traveled with her parents to the 1962 ASA convention being held at White Oak Lodge near Medford, Oregon. Blessed with a sassy attitude and natura...	2	5441	Oct 20, 2011	Derf
AMERICAN NUDIST RESEARCH LIBRARY ☼ The American Nudist Research Library is the first and one of the largest repositories in North America dedicated to preserve the history of the social nudist movement. The idea for such a fa...	2	1410	Sep 5, 2011	flafrank
ED AND JUNE LANGE ☼ Ed Lange was a typical curious Chicago teenager in the 1930s when he first bought a copy of Sunshine & Health magazine from the corner drugstore. Who would have known that this purchase would...	2	3041	Sep 5, 2011	flafrank
Jim & "Pete" Hadley Jim was a visionary in starting Cypress Cove, the Cadillac of nudist resorts on the East Coast. He was a "Beach" person when the Cove began. That resort is now in it's 3rd generation of being run in...	2	1182	Sep 5, 2011	flafrank
Diary of A Nudist 1961 Found Diary of A Nudist 1961 stumbling through the B-movies on IMBd. IMDb Link ...	1	1168	Aug 22, 2011	lustforlife
Sunny Haven Recreation Park As a single in the mid 1960s, I lived in southwestern Michigan and was a member of ASA as well as Sunny Haven Recreation Park in Granger, Indiana. I have great memories of my time there. I wonder if a...	1	1066	Jun 27, 2011	indynude01
DIANE WEBBER Marguerite Diane Theresa Empey Webber was born on 29th July 1932 in Los Angeles, California. By the early 1950s, the buxom curvaceous five-foot-two daughter of screen writer Arthur Guy Empey was a fo...	6	11410	Jun 15, 2011	EricS
LINDA SHOCKLEY Linda Shockley was the epitome of the California girl: with a fresh face, long blonde locks, golden tan, an athletic figure and squeaky-clean attitude, she helped define the West Coast teen scene for ...	2	14531	May 22, 2011	captinwillie
HOME MOVIES: BLASTS FROM THE PAST Ever wonder what became of those home movies from summer holidays of days-gone-by? Here’s someone’s ß-MAX video of a trip with friends as they raft through the Grand Canyon and through their memories...	4	2137	May 18, 2011	ANDYbee
PAT Pat was one of the most ubiquitous ladies of the golden days of nudist magazines. Nevertheless, she seems to have a bit of an identity problem on the Internet. As with a lot of the amateur (read t...	1	3635	May 18, 2011	ANDYbee
JOYCE LONG Joyce Long was the right person at the right time, an opinion shared by many magazine photographers. She, her husband Gene and their son Sonny were frequent visitors to the numerous clubs on the We...	1	5031	May 5, 2011	ANDYbee
FOUR SEASONS NATURE PARK Four Seasons Nature Park has come to an end. To-day marks its departure from being Canada’s première clothes-free resort after forty-two years of operations. The president of Castle Vacations Parks,...	1	5443	May 1, 2011	ANDYbee
LAZY К RANCH ☼ Lazy К Ranch was in Badger Canyon high above Cajón Boulevard as it passed through the Verdemont neighbourhood of San Bernardino, California. When owners Joe and Bessie Smith opened the...	5	17444	Apr 14, 2011	ANDYbee
SAMAGATUMA ☼ Samagatuma, its name roughly translated from the local native tongue as “water-place-spread-in-the-sun,” was another of Southern California’s collection of desert oases that thrived in the go...	3	4001	Mar 28, 2011	ANDYbee
SYLVIA HAND Sylvia Hand was no average ultra-fit, weightlifting thirtysomething wife, mother and nudist; she was an ASA icon who pushed the edge of the envelope. It was in 1958 when the nudist magazine industr...	1	4805	Mar 12, 2011	ANDYbee
MARY PHILLIPS Mary Phillips took pride in her role of promoting wholesome family nudism. Unlike many of her fellow icons of the day, it wasn’t until she was married that Mary discovered social nudity. Reading of ...	1	9388	Jan 14, 2011	ANDYbee
BUCK’S-KIN LODGE Buck’s-kin Lodge was more than a play on words — it was truly a family affair. Located close to the West Virginia state line and the tiny hamlet of Gore, the lodge was a convenient stop for nudists ...	1	2081	Jan 6, 2011	ANDYbee
PENNY BOONE Penny Boone came a long way from the cringing teenybopper, cowering under her bed to avoid a company of others, to the vibrant representative of nudism and a member of one of its most prominent famili...	1	5109	Jan 1, 2011	ANDYbee
SUNNY HEIGHTS LODGE Sunny Heights Lodge was another in an array of family-owned enterprises that contributed greatly to the golden age of the ASA during the 1960s and early ’70s. Manuel “Kelly” Steinlauf was a retired d...	1	4300	Dec 25, 2010	ANDYbee
SYCAMORE VALLEY RANCH Sycamore Valley Ranch was another charm on a bracelet of nudist retreats that reveled in the hot Southern California desert sun only to fade into the offset printed pages of the days’ classic magazine...	1	4159	Dec 12, 2010	ANDYbee
ALOIS KNAPP Alois S. Knapp emigrated from his native Austria with wife Ursula during the turbulent times between the two world wars. Settling in Chicago, Alois established his law practices whilst Ursula kept h...	2	10460	Dec 7, 2010	dbo
CÉCILE ALLAIN ☼ Cécile Allain’s youthful pictures graced dozens of nudist magazine pages as well as their covers during the 1960s. As the sweetheart of Swallows / Sun Island near El Cajón, California, she of...	4	13810	Dec 7, 2010	Bigbare
JODY ☼ Jody, a popular icon for the Olive Dell Ranch, may have never become a nudist had it not been for those more innocent times. She was the youngest of three siblings who frequented the Southern...	1	5253	Dec 7, 2010	ANDYbee
OAKDALE RANCH / TREEHOUSE FUN RANCH Oakdale Ranch began as a Depression era truck stop and petrol station alongside Route 66 on the outskirts of San Bernardino. The Campbell family’s eight hectares also included a general store a...	3	9764	Dec 7, 2010	ANDYbee
ROSIE SMITH ☼ Rosie Smith, daughter of Lazy К Ranch owners Joe and Bessie Smith, was only ten years old when the first members were greeted at their sun club in the foothills above the San Bernardino...	4	5765	Nov 25, 2010	ANDYbee
SUN VALLEY GARDENS Karl and Marliese Rühle pose with two of their friends.Sun Valley Gardens was the autocratic realm of one of Canada’s most renowned nudist pioneer couples, Karl and Marliese Rühle. Built with th...	1	2080	Nov 25, 2010	ANDYbee
ARDIS Ardis favoured those rare occasions when she had the pool area to herself — just to think about things in the free air and sunshine of a nude resort. Living near Harbison Canyon, east of San Diego, A...	1	2253	Nov 17, 2010	ANDYbee
BILL & FRAN FLESHER Bill and Fran Flesher certainly had the right name to be nudists. This energetic couple and their family were proprietors of the Treehouse Fun Ranch, the legendary resort at the foot of the Cajón Pas...	1	4994	Nov 17, 2010	ANDYbee
Vintage Nudists Photo's I have a collection of Vintage Nudist photo's that I just love...	1	2960	Oct 17, 2010	wheelzzs
GLEN ECHO PARK Glen Echo Park in the King Township of Ontario was the oldest nudist camp in the province. After their 1955 discovery of an abandoned logging camp, Edward and Mary Todorowsky restored what th...	1	4485	Sep 6, 2010	ANDYbee
SUNSHINE GARDENS Sunshine Gardens Resort first opened its gates to wartime nudists in 1942 on the Michigan farmland of Elmer and Lucille Adams. Located in the south-central section of the Lower Peninsula outside Batt...	2	2713	Aug 20, 2010	jimchris
MYSTIC OAKS Elysian Fields: Not to be confused with Elysium Fields that was a Topanga Canyon institute established in 1965. Mystic Oaks was a rustic encampment nestled amongst towering oaks, sycamores and pine...	1	7223	Jul 23, 2010	ANDYbee
SUNWAY SOCIETY Sunway Society organized in 1938, and chartered as an ASA affiliate the following year, with the expressed goal of having each associate in command: They vote on club business, bylaw and camp rule cha...	1	3804	Jul 7, 2010	ANDYbee
LINDA Linda was a favourite subject of nudist photographers in the 1960s. She belonged to the now-defunct Bruins Sunbathing Club of Whitehouse, Ohio; but, like her West Coast counterparts Rosie Smith and C...	2	3974	Aug 6, 2010	ANDYbee
RAY & MILDRED CONNETT ☼ Ray and Mildred Connett were arguably the most renowned trailblazers of Canadian nudism. Ray was born and raised in the prairie province of Saskatchewan. The Pacific Coast beckoned him in th...	1	2633	Aug 6, 2010	ANDYbee
CALYPTUS GROVE Calyptus Grove Nudist Camp opened in 1954 on a little under five hectares surrounded by eucalyptus trees off Auberry Road outside Clovis; owners Logan and Gertrude Bachar — to which Logan was the pres...	1	10964	Jul 1, 2010	ANDYbee

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