Patti Conley
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Patti Conley was an American photographic model and was one of the ladies who modeled at the Spider Pool
From the Yahoo Spider Pool newsgroup
July 03, 2007 I've recently found a couple of people very familiar with the work of John Willie, who immediately and independently recognized Spider Pool model Pat.
The gist of what they can add to our info file on her follows:
- Patti's last name is Conley. I've been able to find photos or magazine appearances of her that list her as Patti and as Connelly, and other combinations may exist. According to "Glamour Girls: Then & Now" (Dec. 1995/Jan. 1996), she was from rural Oklahoma, born circa 1937–39 and her father was a Blackfoot Indian. She posed for a number of L.A. photographers, including Gowland, de Dienes, and Bernard and had worked as a showgirl at the Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas. She did extensive modeling for John Willie circa 1958-60. I've been able to find that Pat Conley/Connelly appeared in magazines dated 1957-66, though few of the online listings include photos of her. Based on the testimony of the "Willie experts" I believe that our Pat is Pat Conley, though I haven't been able to find magazine photos that are obvious matches. I'll leave it up to you photo hounds to add Pat to your list of models to look out for.
Rowan
The three (magnificent, IMHO) photographs on top, each 8 x 10, show the master at work with Patti Conley, who is ALSO quite a story. Apparently, Ms. Conley earlier posed in bondage photographs (under far less glamorous circumstances) for somewhat demented fetish kinkster John Willie. Don't look them up. They look like true crime photographs and will creep you out.
However, if you want to spend a pleasant few minutes typing Betty Brosmer into your friendly search engine, it might motivate you to get to the gym. And yes, as far as I know, Keith, whatever his name is, took these all.
- as Betty Brosmer
Three original photographs top, Keith Bernard and Pat Conley each circa 1955 Collection Jim Linderman
A Personal Note from Robin
Excerpt from A John Willie Portfolio:
- By comparing the tiles in the photos from the Spider Pool photos with the tiles in the photos below, the "garish swimming pool" referred to is undeniably the "Spider Pool" owned Jack McDermott
- as Patti Conley at the Spider Pool
This is a "Pictures Only" article as of November, 2017.
We are still looking for more information on this "Special Lady"
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