Tico Patterson

photographed by Robert Mizer
Los Angeles, California, circa 1975

I know that my old friend, JET, spoke very fondly of Tico Patterson.  I don’t know if they ever met.  Tico was a porn model right around the time I started watching  and reading pornography.  I appreciate him much more now than I did then, especially when he hired himself out to Bob Mizer, which he started doing around 1965 when he was seventeen years old.  The first five photographs just below were taken when Tico was eighteen or there about.  The ones where he's sporting a cast on his leg were taken after his motorcycle accident in 1976.