12.12.2008 BETTIE PAGE HAS DIED

Bettie Page, one of the most iconic and imitated models of all time, died yesterday in Los Angeles at the age of 85, after complications following a heart attack 8 days ago.  A famous nude, fetish and bondage model in the early 1950's when that sort of thing barely even existed in America, she was named Playmate of the Month for January 1955 (see her famous Santa-hat centerfold here), when Playboy was just two years old.  The LA Times says…

A cult figure, Page was most famous for the estimated 20,000 4-by-5-inch black-and-white glossy photographs taken by amateur shutterbugs from 1949 to 1957. The photos showed her in high heels and bikinis or negligees, bondage apparel — or nothing at all.
Decades later, those images inspired biographies, comic books, fan clubs, websites, commercial products — Bettie Page playing cards, dress-up magnet sets, action figures, Zippo lighters, shot glasses — and, in 2005, a film about her life and times, "The Notorious Bettie Page."

And yeah I realize of course these pictures aren’t of Bettie Page. They're actually Megan Gale pretending to be Bettie Page.  To be honest, dusty old black and white low-quality pictures didn’t sound so great, and Bettie Page wasn’t really that good looking, so this is way better and you still get the idea.  And if you think it’s weird to put up pictures of someone else, ask yourself this: if you’re upset right now that you can't look at naked pictures of a 85-year-old dead lady, maybe just maybe you’re the weird one in this scenario.


(163) Comments

  1. Brandon103 12/12/2008 06:45

    I'd bone the old Bettie Page

  2. ham sandwich 12/12/2008 06:45

    Wow. She looks pretty good for 85. I'ma have to cruise the depends aisle more often.

  3. Rick (with a silent P) 12/12/2008 06:49

    BETTIE PAGE HAS DIED

    and yet Winehouse and so many others still breathe…that's it…there is no God…or an incredibly cruel, water-boarding God…either way…I'm taking my toys and going home…

  4. DB's Treasure 12/12/2008 06:51

    I got robbed by a sweet little old lady on a motorized cart!

  5. Demon Spawn 12/12/2008 06:53

    My penis will miss her.

  6. leftnutofjesus 12/12/2008 06:54

    after complications following a heart attack 8 days ago.

    the complication was that my dick just kept making her CUUUUM.  

  7. Observer 12/12/2008 06:56

    Has the "real name" of a chick EVER mattered….especially when she's nude?

  8. POOLMAN 12/12/2008 06:56

    You are right (P)Rick, God does have a funny, yet cruel sense of humor.

  9. Rick (with a silent P) 12/12/2008 06:56

    To commemorate this loss, I will maintain my penis at half-mast…it'll be the most action he's seen in years anyway…

  10. Observer 12/12/2008 06:57

    DB's Treasure:

    I got robbed [of my virginity] by a sweet little old lady on a motorized cart!

  11. Observer 12/12/2008 06:57

    DB's Treasure:

    I got robbed (of my virginity) by a sweet little old lady on a motorized cart!

  12. grubber 12/12/2008 06:58

    I still declare today to be pin-up friday.

    girls? 

  13. dirtydiane1 12/12/2008 06:58

    i love that she was referred to as zaftig.  that word makes me chuckle.

  14. leftnutofjesus 12/12/2008 06:58

    i hope everyone actually reads the post and knows that's not bettie page.  she was a haggardly looking bitch.  i'd snap the frame for fame, but that's it.   

    is it just me or in the santa centerfold, isn't the wink a little much?  it looks like someone just shot a load in her eye and they snapped it.  

     

  15. Observer 12/12/2008 06:58

    Hmmm….she was wild vixen who took me twice.

    Annally and penisally.

  16. Terd Ferguson 12/12/2008 06:59

    6 feet under in a coffin: the ultimate act of bondage!

  17. grubber 12/12/2008 06:59

    and there are tons of good 'real' bettie pics.

    quit posting things from the personal spank bank.. 

  18. Rick (with a silent P) 12/12/2008 06:59

    "is it just me or in the Santa centerfold, isn't the wink a little much?"

    maybe Sarah Palin could answer that best, lefty

  19. Tito's Abdomen 12/12/2008 06:59

    Heard of her death this morning and googled some of her old pics. I therefore have to disagree: She looked mighty fine and way better than M. Gale.

  20. dirtydiane1 12/12/2008 06:59

    so what do you want, grubber?  a pin-up avi of me?  don't think i have any…why don't you add that to the list.

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