OLD RELIABLE~DAVID HURLES

OLD RELIABLE was the name of a company back in the 70s & 80s that created slexy, (sleezy & sexy) images of hot guys with allot of tattoos, wrestling, boxing, sucking on stogies, and just being badass. back in the day, i feverishly collected old reliable magazines @ circus of books in weho. many years ago, (1988) i was hired by the advocate to photograph what i believe was the first reception for the gay porno awards. i shot christopher rage, al parker & JD slater along with this bashful guy wearing a button down shirt with a new wave style-triangle & polka dot print. i assumed he was a producer.... fast-forward to 1997, thru a model, i was informed that i would be allowed to interview the guy behind old reliable. the person's name was DAVID HURLES. i was driven to the secret location and introduced to a shy/slender man wearing a button down shirt with a new wave style-triangle & polka dot print. THAT WAS DAVID HURLES!!

since then david & i have been friends. i recently heard the sad news that david had a massive stroke and was in very serious condition. i was invited by my friends dave naz & oriana to visit david yesterday. initially scared as to how i would find david, i was pleased to see he's regaining his movement back, slowly but surely, and was in great spirits... considering all he has been through. i am not a doctor, but my gut tells me that david hurles will put out of this, rise out of the ashes to be the reigning king of gay erotic photography. david is one of the few remaining artists from the golden years of male physique photography. an incredibly creative era when there were no limits, since the limits had not been tested, and you could get arrested just by photographing a hard on.

dave naz-david hurles-rick castro- (note i'm holding a d.hurles boom box!)




here i am next to the SHROUD OF TURIN! in the lobby of david hurles's convalescent home.


ori & i in the lobby. we kept slipping off the plastic covered sofa, (with matching plastic covered pillows!)

david hurle's first book SPEEDING, (2005) was very successful.


David has a new book out called, OUTCAST, with a foreword by John Waters. this is david's first book in living color! there is also an upcoming book called, ROLE MODELS, due out early next year,





dave, oriana & i had tea @ antebellum before we went to visit david hurles.
all photos courtesy- dave naz