Young Treasure Hunters Porn Was Found Under The Bed...

[Gerry in Idaho]

Yes this happened to me a few times in the early 70's.  Mama found my porn stash under the bed and it was what set up my career.  After all, I tell many I'm in the Adult Entertainment business selling high end toys.

These early magazines had me squeamish in bed a many sleepless nights.  A boy my age was quite naive, so seeing such raw and natural images sent my brain into overload.  I had no clue what the future would hold, but I feel it came out quite right.

View these 2 early magazines and you'll notice some of the articles and headlines.  1st is GOLD by True West, 1969 Vol. 1, #1 and looking at the inside page of the articles are authors mostly long gone.  But I give credit to them for allowing me to dream.  If anyone knows of these names, it would be neat to get updates.

2nd magazine porn I used to drool over, Old West 1971 and just as incredible is an article about "Elk City Idaho" and just below that....perfect timing. "One Thanksgiving Day".  Folks, I can't make this up any better.  I go to my old stash and grab a couple and these are absolute on.  The inside cover (I forgot to check the centerfold) is a full page ad from Jetco and their top detectors 50 yrs ago.  The models of the detectors are catchy like many muscle cars of the day, GTO, Mustang, GTX,  Treasure Hawk...didn't Minelab have a Treasure Hawk? 

So I ask you folks, show the rest of us your Treasure Porn that kept you dreamin, drooling and -master swinging.

 

[Gold Catcher]

1 hour ago, Gerry in Idaho said:

So I ask you folks, show the rest of us your Treasure Porn that kept you dreamin, drooling and -master swinging.

Awesome, Gerry!! These timeless magazines are worth the gold they are describing. No, I won't show you what magazines I had under my bed....🤪

[Ridge Runner]

Here’s two of the later ones.

 Chuck 

[Ridge Runner]

Hey I got some that have Buffalo poo on them .

[Ridge Runner]

Here’s some more.

[beatup]

good stuff guys

 

[IDMineralSurveys]

I'm soooo happy to see this post!  I can show my wife... that I'm not the only one who has old gold/treasure magazines/articles saved from decades ago!

[Ridge Runner]

Does anyone know the guy with the puffer drywasher? That couldn’t be the guy that is well known for puffer drywashers ?

 Chuck 

[IDMineralSurveys]

[GB_Amateur]

My collection isn't as vast as Chuck A.'s. and it appears we have some overlap.  My favorite covers were ones done by artists.  They really sparked my imagination.  Although most (maybe all) of the treasure stories seem to get repeated -- some in magazines and some in books -- I wonder if there are any out there that haven't gotten the vast attention.  I've been going through some of my early issues and picking up books listed there, used prices over the internet.  Research, research, research....

I have posted images in the past of both covers and ads.  It seems that the treasure magazine earliest issues (from the 1960's) were more likely to have the artistic covers and especially starting in the early 1970's they reverted to mostly photos.  (Were they cutting costs or were artists just being eliminated because of being old-fashioned with modern, easy and inexpensive color photography taking over?)  Here's one of the last artistic covers, this from 1976.  Note the very top title article about Rommel's missing millions.  Josh Gates had an episode on that in his popular Expedition Unknown series on Discovery Channel.