About Christa Speck:

This figure-perfect secretary proves a splendid September dividend In keeping with the rest of California’s anything-goes architecture, many of its banking institutions operate in the guise of a depositor’s Disneyland, a Spanish hacienda, or a Frank Lloyd Wrightish rock-and-redwood ranch house. One conservatively marble-pillared maison de money, however, has enough business acumen to decorate its premises with secretary Christa Speck.

When Christa’s finished transcribing bank notes for the day, she turns her extracurricular attentions to the dance, jazz, and the sundry outdoor activities that most nineteen-year-old Angelenos find irresistible. And her serious approach to matters fiscal detracts not one whit from Miss Speck’s undeniable attributes, which might well, we maintain, cause something of a reverse run on the bank one day soon.

Playboy’s readers and editors were in complete accord last year in their pick of the fetching Playmate pack: all returns called for a return of spectacular Christa Speck as our Playmate of the Year. The winsome Christa first decorated our pages as Miss September 1961, and drew an unprecedented avalanche of approving missives. Formerly a model of fiscal fitness as a Los Angeles bank secretary, 20-year-old Christa now draws appreciative interest as a pert Bunny at the Chicago Playboy Club. In gratitude for the accolades of her discerning admirers, our lady bountiful here passes in review the memorable face and figure (38-22-36) that made her the choicest of the choice in 1961.