Archives

Zoro Gardens, at the northern tip of Gold Gulch, was home to a colony of about twenty nudists who read books, played handball, ate vegetables, and participated in a 20-minute Ceremony to the Sun God five times nightly. Yvonne Stacey, the colony’s first queen, and Dr. Frederick S. Merrill, the colony’s first narrator, insisted that the show not be located on the Midway as they didn’t want their presentation of nudism to be confused with strip-tease [adapted from an article by Richard Amero].