Jan Roberts was Miss August 1962 in Playboy magazine, and apparently she was the first Playmate to have been a Playboy Club Bunny first. Many Playmates (nude magazine models) became Bunnies (cocktail servers), but it wasn’t until Jan that it happened the other way around.
At least that’s what we think this says:
Silver-blonde Jan Roberts cottons to the bunny business at Chicago’s Playboy club In the two-plus years since the first Playboy Club bounded boldly onto the entertainment scene in Chicago, 24 of this magazine’s prettiest Playmates have taken the bountiful Bunny trail to fun, travel and excitement as highly paid hostesses in our ever-lengthening chain of luxurious key clubs. With this issue we present a neat twist on the customary Playmate-to-Bunny progression: she’s ingenuous Jan Roberts — the first (but undoubtedly not the last) Playmate to be discovered among the hutch honeys already decorating club premises.
Whew, that’s exhausting reading. You can see more ’60s and ’70s Playmates at the official Playboy site. Take a picture break; text continues below.
Magazine writeup continued:
Like hundreds of beauties from every part of the U.S. and several foreign countries, Brooklyn-born, Toledo-bred Jan stormed Chicago specifically in hopes of landing a job at the Playboy Club. Her credentials (executive girl Friday for the Juhl Advertising Agency of Elkhart, Indiana, and honor graduate of a two-year medical technology course in the same city) were impressive enough to earn her a Bunny berth. Although the lissome (39-23-35) arrangement of her 120 compact pounds on a five-foot-five frame tends to belie it, Miss August prefers mental exercise to physical; she thrives on chess and bridge bouts, reads omnivorously (mostly books on mathematics and theology), dabbles in graphology, and earnestly paints landscapes which bear, she believes, “an unfortunate resemblance to my favorite foods — spaghetti and cheese blintzes.”
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