# Elevator stopping at Penthouse and going down--way down--Bob Guccione dead at 79 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 21, 2010, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-stopping-at-penthouse-and-going-down-way-down-bob-guccione-dead-at-79/557881 "2010-10-21T13:53:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-stopping-at-penthouse-and-going-down-way-down-bob-guccione-dead-at-79/557881/41 "2010-10-22T00:07:10Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Of course. Asking if they were TRUE would just be begging to be insulted. Some were not completely implausible if one allows for embellishment in anatomical details, and assumes everyone involved was drunk. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-stopping-at-penthouse-and-going-down-way-down-bob-guccione-dead-at-79/557881/42 "2010-10-22T00:09:31Z")
Anybody who is responsible for “[Oh, Wicked Wanda!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_Wanda)” getting published will be missed. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-stopping-at-penthouse-and-going-down-way-down-bob-guccione-dead-at-79/557881/43 "2010-10-22T00:12:31Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Anybody who is responsible for “[Oh, Wicked Wanda!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_Wanda)” getting published will be missed. It’s too bad the _Sweet Chastity_ story arc was cut short (when Ron Embleton died). ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-stopping-at-penthouse-and-going-down-way-down-bob-guccione-dead-at-79/557881/44 "2010-10-23T17:55:07Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Of the “big three” he did have the dubious distinction of being the one who proceeded to lose all he had built – since the 70s, Hef had his onetime empire go through dramatic contractions but was able to save the core business and even have something of a comeback; Flynt got over getting shot and taken to the Supreme Court, to diversify accross the sex industry; but Guccione ran his businesses into the ground slow and steady, and ended up with everything sold from under him. And the moral is: God loves the Miss America Pageant! ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2010, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-stopping-at-penthouse-and-going-down-way-down-bob-guccione-dead-at-79/557881/45 "2010-10-24T04:40:17Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > Not necessarily the case now. I am very vaguely acquainted with a woman who has written stories professionally for a Penthouse Letters publication It wouldn’t surprise me if editorial policy had changed since the 1970s, when Bob worked there–though it’s also quite possible that “I got stuck in an elevator with a supermodel, and we did it” was expanded to three lavishly detailed pages… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-stopping-at-penthouse-and-going-down-way-down-bob-guccione-dead-at-79/557881.md?page=2)