Pipe and PJs: The Seventies
Hope Olson, Playmate of the Month October 1976, Patti McGuire, Playmate of the Month November 1976, and Cyndi Wood, Playmate of the Month February 1973, along with other Playmates pictured in Netherlands edition pictorial, Bloopers: De Leukste Blunders van Playboy, November 1987
Susan Lynn Kiger, Playmate of the Month January 1977, Sondra Theodore, Playmate of the Month July 1977, Hope Olson, Playmate of the Month October 1976, and Patti McGuire, Playmate of the Month November 1976, along with fellow Playmates Laura Lyons, Denise Michele, Sheila Mullen and Lisa Sohm pictured in Italian edition pictorial, Tutti al Party in Casa Hefner, December 1977
Patti McGuire, Playmate of the Month November 1976, and Hope Olson, Playmate of the Month October 1976, with Bunny Cindy Russell in Italian edition pictorial, Cercasi Pepite, July 1978
Patti McGuire, Playmate of the Month November 1976, Hope Olson, Playmate of the Month October 1976, Sondra Theodore, Playmate of the Month July 1977, and Susan Lynn Kiger, Playmate of the Month January 1977, pictured in German edition pictorial, Happy Birthday Hef, April 2016
Patti McGuire, Playmate of the Month November 1976, and Hope Olson, Playmate of the Month October 1976, with Bunny Cindy Russell in the pictorial, Riverboat Gambolers, August 1977
Hope Olson, Playmate of the Month October 1976, pictured in Japanese edition Playmate of the Month pictorial, Hope Olson, November 1976
Hope Olson, Playmate of the Month October 1976, pictured in the book “Inside the Playboy Mansion,” 1998
Many Playmates from the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s were pictured in the Japanese edition Mandala Calendar, January 1982. Among them were Pamela Jean Bryant, Playmate of the Month April 1978, Nancy Cameron, Playmate of the Month January 1974, Sharon Clark, Playmate of the Month August 1970, Danielle de Vabre, Playmate of the Month November 1971, Jill De Vries, Playmate of the Month October 1975, Susan Lynn Kiger, Playmate of the Month January 1977, Liv Lindeland, Playmate of the Month January 1971, Candy Loving, Playmate of the Month January 1979, Denise McConnell, Playmate of the Month March 1979, Patti McGuire, Playmate of the Month November 1976, Laura Misch, Playmate of the Month February 1975, Elaine Morton, Playmate of the Month June 1970, Karen Morton, Playmate of the Month July 1978, Hope Olson, Playmate of the Month October 1976, Janet Quist, Playmate of the Month December 1978, Cathy Rowland, Playmate of the Month August 1971, Lenna Sjööblom, Playmate of the Month November 1972, Crystal Smith, Playmate of the Month September 1971, Gail Stanton, Playmate of the Month June 1978, Linda Summers, Playmate of the Month August 1972, Jill Taylor, Playmate of the Month January 1970, Sondra Theodore, Playmate of the Month July 1977, Daina House, Playmate of the Month January 1976, Cyndi Wood, Playmate of the Month February 1973, Linda Forsythe, Playmate of the Month February 1970, Debbie Davis, Playmate of the Month June 1972, Heather Van Every, Playmate of the Month July 1971, Chris Koren, Playmate of the Month March 1970, Mesina Miller, Playmate of the Month September 1975, and Janis Schmitt, Playmate of the Month February 1978
Patti McGuire, Playmate of the Month November 1976, and Hope Olson, Playmate of the Month October 1976, with Bunny Cindy Russell in digital images from the photoshoot for the pictorial Riverboat Gambolers, which appeared in the August 1977 issue.
Hope Olson, Playmate of the Month October 1976, pictured in Playmate of the Month pictorial, Farm Fresh. The text accompanying the photos read:
Thank God she’s a country girl. Hope Olson is at home in the wilderness. Her favorite movie is Jeremiah Johnson. She liked the scenery and the silence. At times, she entertains the idea that someday there will be a movie about a mountain woman and that she will be asked to play the lead. The part fits her as perfectly as a pair of jeans. When we talked to Miss October, she was in mourning for a favorite pair of cutoffs that she had acquired from a boyfriend a few years back. (She wouldn’t go into the details of the trade except to say, if the jeans fit, wear them. Until you wear them out.) Those cutoffs had been everywhere: the mountains. The desert. Down the Colorado River. Places we can only dream about. “Finally, there was almost nothing left of them. You could see through the
sides, through the rear. One day I put them in the wash and they just dissolved. I guess I’ll have to start all over.” We will now have a moment of silence for those jeans. The stories they could tell. Hope spent the first 15 years of her life in Wisconsin on her grandfather’s farm. She learned to ride horses and later to maneuver a snowmobile around an oval track. Whatever Hope does, she does well. When she moved to California, she tried body surfing. “I discovered that the ocean was not exactly the lake I had been used to swimming in. It’s much more powerful and dangerous. On my first day, I wiped out completely. I lost the bottom of my bathing suit. Got sand burns, the works.” On weekends, or whenever she feels like it, Hope throws a tent, a sleeping bag and a few days’ worth of food into the back of a van and takes off for parts unknown. Sometimes she and her boyfriend drop in on bluegrass music festivals. “I like the idea of people sitting around, eating, drinking, raising hell. They’re always friendly. We just unroll our sleeping bag and make ourselves at home.” On one of her drives across country, Hope’s van began to overheat. So did Hope, so she asked a gas-station attendant where the nearest swimming hole was. A 20-mile drive down a back road brought her to a glade of cottonwood trees. “It was so nice I stayed for almost a day and a half. You really should have been there.” Yup.
Pipe and PJs: The Seventies