Pre Internet Days

This week I have been doing my regular searches with a little twist. Instead of doing named searches, what I have been doing instead is going old school. Picking a series and then going through every book, page by page, hour after hour. Here is something that will make you laugh though. In the very first book I found a brand new MEN ARE LIKE STREETCARS photo, and I then did a search for that image by breaking down the search engine to the minutest detail. Even then, the image just does not show up in the search engine. It actually makes me wonder just how many pics are still out there that we have missed. I will probably post the new find this Sunday for Streetcars number 129.

A few books after that I found an OTK photo which had a caption written above it in Biro that simply said “She needed it”. Like it was common place and an everyday natural occurrence. What happened after that though was a disaster, I probably went through 200 books, page by page, and I didn’t find a sausage, lol. That’s part and parcel of this hobby though, it can take you hours to find a simple spanking photo, and it only takes seconds for someone to swipe it from here. I will be back at it today and who knows, maybe today I will get lucky and find a nice little horde.

Over the past week I was having a discussion regarding 1950s style spanking compared to 1970s style spanking. Obviously I relate more to the 1970s because that was the time frame that I grew up in. Then in the 1980s when I became an adult there were options available to purchase. The image below for example was something that I used to do in pre internet days.

First of all that looks like it is Eve Howard in the middle image.

Before the days of websites and spankingtube, we had to pick and choose what it is that we wanted to watch, and for the most part we did that blind by looking at a couple of images on the cover, and then reading the description and hoping that the producer wasn’t ‘clickbaiting’ us. The funny part is, I don’t recognize the middle image in the above photo, and now I am interested in seeing what the film was.

Anyway, what I used to do for Nuwest more than any other company was this, almost every month I would buy a preview tape, it was like the pre Internet spankingtube of its day đŸ™‚ You could watch a couple of minutes of a bunch of films and hope that somewhere included in that montage was a film that you wanted to buy. Back in the late 80’s Nuwest tapes weren’t cheap, especially when you were buying them in a third party store in New York.

It definitely worked though, because there was so many films that I bought just based on the preview tapes. I always try and encourage a spanking producer to put a decent trailer up, not 25 seconds of talking followed by 5 seconds of spanking. The way I see it is this, the people who aren’t going to buy your product, they aren’t going to buy it no matter how long the trailer is. So those people really don’t count. What you are trying to do is capture the people who are likely to buy your product. Give them something worth watching, even if you think it is too much, because down the line the itch will continue to feel the need to be scratched, and if they are liking what you have already given them, you are just as likely to be the recipient of the new orders coming in.

As an added bonus I’m slapping this picture up from the 1920s. It will never make my Wednesday classics and will just fester in my archives for years if I don’t find a place to post it.

4 thoughts on “Pre Internet Days

  1. Hi Richard,

    I still have all of the Nu-West/LEDA paper catalogs.

    You are correct about the image in the middle. That is Eve and it’s Tony administering the spanking. It’s actually a Shadow Lane Production, Tony and Eve, A College Fantasy SLV-001. It”s on the next to the back page of this catalog. Nu-West was promoting it. In the catalog it says Shadow Lane Productions Announces Its Debut With An Original Spanking Video. To order Tony and Eve, SLV-001, send $89.95 to Shadow Lane, P.O. Box 1910, Studio City, CA 91604-0910. Specify Beta or VHS when ordering. LOL

    Thanks,
    Will

  2. You know what, I should have known that, Will. After all it is my favorite spanking movie. What put me off is that for this scene Tony wore gloves, but I just checked other images on my site and I see that he only had one glove on đŸ™‚ Think about that though, $90 for a VHS cassette, hot damn. I first bought it around 1990 for what I am pretty sure was $50, perhaps because Shadowlane had established themselves by that point.

    BTW, I still think that this image, plus another that I have posted, were promo stills for the movie. In the movie itself she is wearing tap panties and the frilly knickers underneath them. In this image the tap panties are nowhere to be seen.

    Rich

  3. Incredible find I know I had that catalog among others kick myself for getting rid of them but well sometimes you do things you regret. Yes cost was very high but then Stand Corrected came out to level the playing field a bit. I had some of those saved autographed actually by Stephanie Locke, Eve Howard and the incredible Tanya Fox all who I had the pleasure of playing with but again I tossed them. Dumb me.

    Great post and find Rich thank you.
    Ron

  4. Ron,

    This was a item that turned up on Ebay recently, I don’t know how much it sold for.

    Rich

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