The following tribute to Old Reliable's exclusive discovery STEVE TRACY is taken, with permission, from OUTCOME magazine issue #8 © 1990 Man-Age Press. It is the first & only write up on Steve that has ever been done & was done via Old Reliable. All text © Outcome/Man-Age Press. All photographs © Old Reliable. These pictures are NOT IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. All rights reserved. All photographs are fully copyrighted & many NOT be reproduced in any way, shape or form in any manner or media without the writen permission of Old Reliable. Use of these images on other web sites or in advertising is expressly prohibited as is the uploading of these images to newsgroups! And, yes, we're sorry to say, Steve was straight. Get out the razors & remember lengthwise acroos the vein not across.

Of all the hundreds of models photographed by OLD RELIABLE there is one who has become a legend, although many know his image have never known his name.

STEVE TRACY would have to be considered the ultimate "Surfer Boy" fantasy, perfection from his long golden blond hair and sapphire eyes to his suckable toes. Even with an electron microscope you couldn't find a flaw on that trim, muscular, well defined body that was kept in top shape through swimming and surfing (he really was a surfer/beach boy)

Steve was 18, stood 5'10", weighed 150 lbs. and had, nestled in a bed of golden pubic hair, an 8" toy that could send anyone into ecstasy

The year was 1969, the year of the Stonewall Riot that birthed the Gay Liberation movement and the final year of the incredible 60s. Steve had been recommended to David by a friend in Mountain View, CA. Steve was straight but uninhibited about posing for the pleasure of guys. David recalls that he was an "absoute delight!"

Unfortunately only two sessions were done. In that first session Stve had medium length hair and in the second and final session done some weeks later his hair had grown past his shoulders. David says he is constantly surprised at just how famous Steve has become. At that time he was just one of many hot guys David immortalized on film. The trajedy is that most of the slides and negatives of Steve have been either lost or destroyed over the years and only a few remain.

It's another nightmare from the fire that took Man-Age Studios in '86. A number of the original chromes and negs that had come from the Grecian Guild files were in their office & were cremated.

Steve found a patron (nudge, nudge know what I mean) shortly after that last session who brought him to NYC to take up studies at an art school there. After finishing h taveled back west to San Francisco where he worked as a waiter for a time. David stopped hearing from him at this time and the trail end here.

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