Playboy's Girls of Summer # 2 (1984)

The word summer calls up scores of savory associations. Elke Sommer. Suzanne Somers. Donna Summer. Playboy's Girls of Summer. The qualities that draw us to all the above, beyond the alluring alliteratives—photogenic physiognomy, sultry sensuality, exquisite, explicit exhibition—are really more thermal than visual. The beauties of 20 or 30 years ago—Hitchcock's icy-blonde love goddesses, say—were fine for the onset of the Cold War and the cool of the Beat Generation, but the women we fancy today are attuned to the opposite end of the thermometer. They always seem to vanish during the colder months, but in summer they dominate the beach the way the sun rules the sky, attracting admirers like moths to a flame. They'll blister your eyes if you forget to blink. Playmates from the pages of PLAYBOY are among today's hottest. They have their own lives, occupations and zodiac signs, but in the volume at hand, they represent a modern archetype in all its forms—the Girl of Summer, who gives rise to that legend we've all heard about the summer that never ends. So slap a Beach .Boys cassette into the Walkman, dig out your most fluorescent Hawaiian shirt, get yourself a pitcher of cool lemonade and join us on the beach with Playboy's Girls of Summer.

Models
Marianne Gravatte
Pamela Zinszer
Joni German
Rodika Candelatto
Ruth Guerri
Veronica Gamba
Erika Percoraro
Angelica Heinrich
Kelli Bowers
Marlene Janssen
Victoria Cooke
Kym Herrin
Lynda Wiesmeier
Pamela Campbell
Teri Peterson
Debbie Boostrom
Barbara Champion
Mardi Jacquet
Joni German
Vicki Lasseter
Tracy Vaccaro
Susie Scott
Heidi Sorenson
Bobo Zuvic
Vinka Skansi
Connie Brighton
Cathy St. George
Marcy Hanson
Dona Speir
Tina Moore
Lee Ann Michelle
Christina Smith
Missy Cleveland
Karen Witter
Karen Morton
Sylvie Garant
Ursula Buchfellner
Carina Persson
angelica Heinrich
Michele Drake
Alana Soares
Linda Vaughn
Anne-Marie Fox
Terri Welles
Care Felix
Lisa Welch
Tina Moore
Sabine Mucha
Marcy Hanson
Lourdes Estores
Denise Barbuto
Rahnee Reiland
Sonja Bartschi
Laurie Williams
Deanna Joy
Kathryn Morrison
Kelli Bowers
Mirjana Vulic
Cherie Jean Witter
Monique St. Pierre
Louann Fernald