Palm Drive Video Photo Display Ads

From the mid-1980s through the 1990s, Palm Drive Video advertised its homomasculine fetish films the same way any underground studio proved its existence to a skeptical, horny readership: with a photograph and a phone number. These display ads, placed in the gay leather and fetish magazines of the era, were often the first glimpse a reader ever got of a Palm Drive model before he showed up, uncut and unrehearsed, on videotape. Sampled here is a small selection of that print advertising — half-page and quarter-page spreads that sold not just a video, but an attitude, an archive, and, eventually, a history.

Sample of Palm Drive Video Display Ads

Mag CoverMagazineIssue/DatePalm Drive Video
Drummer No 107 coverDrummerNo 107Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 115 coverDrummerNo 115Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 116 coverDrummerNo 116Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 117 coverDrummerNo 117Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 118 coverDrummerNo 118Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 119 coverDrummerNo 119Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 121 coverDrummerNo 121Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 123 coverDrummerNo 123Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 124 coverDrummerNo 124Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 125 coverDrummerNo 125Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 127 coverDrummerNo 127Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 128 coverDrummerNo 128Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 129 coverDrummerNo 129Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 130 coverDrummerNo 130Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 132 coverDrummerNo 132Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 133 coverDrummerNo 133Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 134 coverDrummerNo 134Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 135 coverDrummerNo 135Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 136 coverDrummerNo 136Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 137 coverDrummerNo 137Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 138 coverDrummerNo 138Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 139 coverDrummerNo 139Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 140 coverDrummerNo 140Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 141 coverDrummerNo 141Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 142 coverDrummerNo 142Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 143 coverDrummerNo 143Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 144 coverDrummerNo 144Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 145 coverDrummerNo 145Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 148 coverDrummerNo 148Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 155 coverDrummerNo 155Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 159 coverDrummerNo 159Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 169 coverDrummerNo 169Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 170 coverDrummerNo 170Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 188 coverDrummerNo 188Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 204 coverDrummerNo 204Photo Display Ad
Masta Entertainment 1996 coverMasta Video Catalog1996Photo Display Ad
Thrust Vol 10 No 6 coverThrustVol 10 No 6 Photo Display Ad
Bunkhouse No 27 coverBunkhouse2000-12 No 27Photo Display Ad
International Leatherman No 7 coverInternational Leatherman1996-Spring No 7Photo Display Ad
Bear No 63 coverBear2000-11 No 63Photo Display Ad
Manshots1989-01Photo Display Ad
Video Review (pdf)
Manshots 1989-10 coverManshots1989-10Photo Display Ad
Video Review (pdf)
Studflix 1987-08 coverStudflix1987-08Photo Display Ad
Studflix 1988-04 coverStudflix1988-04Photo Display Ad

Mag CoverMagazineIssue/DatePalm Drive Video
Drummer No 107 coverDrummerNo 107Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 115 coverDrummerNo 115Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 116 coverDrummerNo 116Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 117 coverDrummerNo 117Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 118 coverDrummerNo 118Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 119 coverDrummerNo 119Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 121 coverDrummerNo 121Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 123 coverDrummerNo 123Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 124 coverDrummerNo 124Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 125 coverDrummerNo 125Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 127 coverDrummerNo 127Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 128 coverDrummerNo 128Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 129 coverDrummerNo 129Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 130 coverDrummerNo 130Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 132 coverDrummerNo 132Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 133 coverDrummerNo 133Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 134 coverDrummerNo 134Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 135 coverDrummerNo 135Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 136 coverDrummerNo 136Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 137 coverDrummerNo 137Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 138 coverDrummerNo 138Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 139 coverDrummerNo 139Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 140 coverDrummerNo 140Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 141 coverDrummerNo 141Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 142 coverDrummerNo 142Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 143 coverDrummerNo 143Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 144 coverDrummerNo 144Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 145 coverDrummerNo 145Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 148 coverDrummerNo 148Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 155 coverDrummerNo 155Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 159 coverDrummerNo 159Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 169 coverDrummerNo 169Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 170 coverDrummerNo 170Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 188 coverDrummerNo 188Photo Display Ad
Drummer No 204 coverDrummerNo 204Photo Display Ad
Masta Entertainment 1996 coverMasta Video Catalog1996Photo Display Ad
Thrust Vol 10 No 6 coverThrustVol 10 No 6 Photo Display Ad
Bunkhouse No 27 coverBunkhouse2000-12 No 27Photo Display Ad
International Leatherman No 7 coverInternational Leatherman1996-Spring No 7Photo Display Ad
Bear No 63 coverBear2000-11 No 63Photo Display Ad
Manshots1989-01Photo Display Ad
Video Review (pdf)
Manshots 1989-10 coverManshots1989-10Photo Display Ad
Video Review (pdf)
Studflix 1987-08 coverStudflix1987-08Photo Display Ad
Studflix 1988-04 coverStudflix1988-04Photo Display Ad

Sample Palm Drive Video Display Ads

PDV Photo Ad - Cigar Sarge
Palm Drive Video photo display ad - Blake Twins
Palm Drive Video photo display ad
Palm Drive Video photo display ad
PDV Photo Ad - Chris Duffy
Palm Drive Video photo display ad - Tom Howard
Palm Drive Video photo display ad - Dave Gold
Palm Drive Video photo display ad
Palm Drive Video photo display ad - Chris Duffy
Palm Drive Video photo display ad - Mike Welder
Palm Drive Video photo display ad
Palm Drive Video photo display ad
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