Karen Elaina Price

[masque51]

Originally Posted by masque51

An ad for a Japanese Photo Book. That second picture of Karen looks like a new one to me, even if it is covered by text.

The area around her fingers looks pretty bad, but it was the best that I could do.

[ujil2]

From the negatives - better and BIGGER:



Man, I love that woman!!!

[cqnew1648]

I’d like to thank Demsal for trying his hand at colorizing the black and white photo of Karen at Muscle Beach, which appeared in her original layout in PB. He worked with the best of the four scans available on VEF, but since the original in the layout is small and full of detail, he didn’t have an ideal scan to work with. I’m grateful, however, to Demsal, and it is Karen!



If you’d like to thank Demsal personally for colorizing all of Karen’s extant black and white photos, his post is at:

http://www.vintage-erotica-forum.com...postcount=2138

As you’ll see in his post, he tried his best with another—the unique photo of Karen in the surf from her layout in PB Mexico—but the scan we have on VEF is just too small and grainy for him to work his usual magic. But I appreciate his effort!

[cqnew1648]

I found a few more pictures of Karen from her current acrobatic career. Here's what she was doing just last year as a performer—at age 54. She’s amazing!



Here's the link to the article in The Desert Sun on her recent performance.

http://www.desertsun.com/picture-gal...lies/19694903/

Alas, it’s pretty clear why there will probably never be another Karen. The revolution in women’s college sports has been remarkable since the late 1970s, and there is little doubt that Karen, if she were a southern California teenager today, would receive a full ride scholarship to USC or UCLA as a gymnast or cheerleader, given her smarts and acrobatic skills. And a degree from either institution in the performing arts or film would have given her a more secure and safe path to show business than PB ever could. I can’t see Hollywood turning down a USC cheerleader for a tryout as a stunt woman, can you? Given Karen’s reluctance to be a PM and her regrets about having posed, and the pain she felt when people questioned whether she was a good, moral person, I’m sure she would say no to PB today, with such a bright future ahead of her--unless she were really, really, really tired of school!

[cqnew1648]

I don't think we've ever had a post of Karen's appearance in the movie Mad Max II, which opened in theaters in 1981--another reason that was a very good year! Karen's centerfold appears on the rear stabilizer of the gyrocopter as Mel Gibson walks by.



It's a fun scene, and from seconds 37 to 45, Karen steals the show, just as we'd expect. Here's the URL to her clip on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6k55DfHm48

It's more than worth a look for Karen's fans.

[kamesennin]

This was in a The World of Playboy page. I cannot remember what issue.

[cqnew1648]

Darrell Stevens posted the following “cleaned” scans of Karen Price in July 2010. He tried to improve the quality and the size of existing scans using Photoshop, a technique he used to refurbish the portfolios of a number of PMs. His inventory of portfolios of cleaned scans appears here.

Alas, the demise of Rapidshare knocked all of his portfolios off the web. And as Darrell would admit, not every effort at improvement worked. But he improved many scans, so I thought I’d repost Karen’s. Msdayhawk reposted Darrell’s scans of Patti Farinelli here.

[cqnew1648]

Stenplow worked up a nice collage for Karen Price in a tribute on another thread. He puts Karen in some amazing company--the only PM among his favorites.





You can see Stenplow's post here.

[cqnew1648]

May wonders never cease. Another great picture of Karen. Thanks to Better Blue for posting it in Kelly's thread, and to Leroy Large Car for letting me know it was there.



I'm in despair about PB opening up its vault while we're still on this earth, now that the organization seems to be repudiating it past. And PB+ seems to have no interest in PB's Golden Era. But nice photos of Karen still keep showing up. We can be thankful for that!
Does anyone have an idea of what occasion might have led to this gathering of PMs? I can't quite manage to ID all of them. Maybe we can move to Karen's discussion thread and try to sort this out!

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