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Recently my Uncle Thomas and his wife stopped by to visit me. This Uncle is the "Tommy" featured in the story, "Swimming at Aunt Jill's" which is set in 1966 when he was 15 years old. During the visit last week, my uncle told me a story that occurred when he was employed at a small branch office of a national credit reporting agency. The branch office was located in Atlanta, Georgia, and my uncle had only been employed there for about a month when this episode happened in April 1974.

At this time, there was a "streaking craze" going on at many college and university campuses. This involved male and female students running naked through public areas such as academic buildings and cafeterias. Usually, the participants would strip naked except for footwear in a secluded room, then burst out into the open area. Then they would run nude until they reached another pre-planned location or room. Or else double back from whence they came. The streaking craze lasted a year or so and sometimes spread to other public places such as offices and so forth.

The branch office where my uncle was employed was in a large one-floor open area. Desks and file cabinets were spread throughout the layout. There were not any cubicles. Both the General Manager and the Assistant Manager had private offices near the front entrance. However, their offices had partial windows looking out onto the office floor. This allowed them to keep an eye on what everyone was doing and any goings-on in the main area.

In the back was a walled off area which was the Mailroom. The Mailroom was a busy place as a lot of their business was done by U.S. Mail, consisting of sending out credit inquiries and related items. Of course, this was well before email capabilities and desktop computers existed.

The Mailroom was run by an older man in his early 60s who had been with the company for many years. He had two assistants, Jeff, a 23-year-old and Denny, 18, who was then a senior in high school and there on a job training program. They were generally good guys, however, Don, the Mailroom Manager, had to sometimes reign them in. The boys tended to occasionally goof off and needed direction to keep them on task doing their jobs.

There had been numerous headlines in the Atlanta newspapers about the streaking craze spreading to local places of business. Jeff and Denny had been joking about streaking the office. Don warned them not even to think about it. He said, "Harvey, the General Manager, would fire your asses immediately if you ever did such a thing here."

Nevertheless, Jeff kept joking about the topic for several days.

Denny was normally very shy and a kind of naive and innocent teenager who, it turns out, was easily led. He had sandy blond hair and had been on his high school swimming team. A good-looking kid, Denny was about 5'9" and a lithe 132 pounds.

Jeff was a tall, 6'4" inch dark brown-haired guy, also very thin and attractive. As required in most business offices of the time, all males wore either business suits of jackets and ties. Denny was there in place of his concluding high school senior classes, and needed the General Manager, Harvey Gomling's eventual approval to graduate from his school, Class of 1974. He had tried to do well in this, his first job, and not fall too much under the spell of the sometimes-rambunctious Jeff.

On Tuesday, April 16, 1974, the Mailroom Lead Clerk Don called in sick. This left the two guys to fend for themselves. It was a slow day with only a few items to be mailed out or otherwise handled in the Mailroom. By 11:15 am there was little to do and boredom set in among the two guys. Later my uncle found out that Jeff had been suggesting they do an office streak. His plan was to disrobe completely, run up the main aisle, the quickly turn around and run rapidly back to the mailroom.

Denny said, "You're crazy, I could forfeit my high school graduation credits." Somehow, Jeff managed to talk him into it. At approximately 11:28 am, both boys stripped naked in the mailroom and at 11:31 am exited nude onto the main business floor. As the first group of employees nearest the Mailroom entrance turned around, they saw the full-frontal nudity of Jeff and Denny. My uncle was at a desk about midway between the Mailroom and the front area where the management offices were located. He heard some commotion and turned sideways in utter amazement. Penises flopping around, the boys ran fast along the open area. Others began to turn around, hearing the commotion, and thus Jeff and Denny were now naked in front of the entire office.

General Manager Harvey Gomling, a burly man in his early 50s, saw this from his window and immediately stepped out onto the floor towards where the guys were heading. He had a look of stunned outrage on his face.-------------

[To be Continued]

The streaking craze actually happened.
A well-known singer at the time, Ray Stevens, released a song called "The Streak" early in 1974. It was a big hit.

The Resolution
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General Manager Harvey Gomling was a tall, burly man, 54 years old, who ran a tight ship and accepted little to no nonsense from his employees. The Assistant Manager, Luke Gergic, 35 years old, was tall, thin and in good shape. He had been a high school star football player, a star linebacker. Both men quickly exited their front offices when they spotted the naked guys running across the room towards the front area.

Harvey was shocked and then enraged by what he considered an obscene display in a business office. He yelled to Luke, "Get them!" Jeff and Denny were restrained physically by the two men as they rounded the corner by the front managerial offices. Meanwhile, the shocked office staff consisting mostly of women, stared in amazement at the two guys being forcibly held by the managers. By the way Luke and Harvey restrained them, a view of their full-frontal nudity was seen by all. Both had normal sized circumcised penises. Then they dragged the nude guys into Harvey's office and sat them down. Luke directed one of the male employees who had the desk next to my Uncle to go back to the Mailroom and fetch their clothes. The man grabbed a shopping bag and placed the clothes he found on a Mailroom table in the bag. He carried the bag up to the front office.

It was quite a sight watching Jeff and Denny get re-dressed, certainly visible to onlookers through the wide window in Harvey's large office. Harvey and Luke clearly wanted to humiliate them at this point. Instead of just giving the guys their clothes back, Harvey proceeded to hand them the apparel items one by one. Loud enough for anyone nearby to hear, Harvey exclaimed, "Here are your underpants. Put them on now." Jeff and Denny took their respective white briefs and put them on. By this time most of the women had gathered around the area near Harvey's office window. Jeff and Denny stood there in front of everyone in just their underpants as Harvey gave them a lecture on business office propriety.

Harvey then told the guys, "I want you to walk back to the Mailroom in just your underpants as you are now. Then put the rest of your clothes on and go home. I will call both of you either later today or tomorrow morning to let you know if my decision as to whether you are still employed here. And Denny, I will be calling your high school principal to let him know what happened here today. Certainly, an 18-year-old high senior should well know that he should not be letting an entire office staff, consisting of mostly women of various ages, see his penis. It was a privilege to have the school allow you to gain work experience as a senior. You have grossly abused that privilege."

The guys began their shameful underpants walk back to the Mailroom. Denny was red in the face and appeared to be holding back tears. Jeff, on the other hand, remained stoic and even slightly smirked as a few of the women got close to him as he paraded along in just his white briefs.

Jeff and Denny kept their jobs, and the high school allowed Denny to remain in the student work study program. Harvey Gomling had called the entire female staff to a general meeting that afternoon. The male employees, including my Uncle, were not included in this meeting. I guess the rationale would have been, especially in 1974, that other males would not be affected either way by seeing two naked male streakers.

The consensus was that the guys could remain employed if they sincerely apologized to the 'potentially offended' female staff members. This they did in a meeting the next morning. Denny actually cried during his apology. He knew that his high school graduation was on the line and that his parents would be shocked and disappointed at his actions.

And that, Uncle Thomas told me, was his true-life tale of the 1974-75 streaking craze. That year featured a gas crisis and a presidential resignation, along with some public nudity.

What was the reactions from the female employees ?

hightab wrote: Tue Jun 17, 2025 1:44 am What was the reactions from the female employees ?

The reaction was mostly initial shock and then devolving into amusement at seeing the handsome young Mailroom attendants running around the office area naked. Most of them were in the 20-35 age range. In the subsequent meeting, with one exception, they asked Harvey Gomling to retain them as employees. The sole older woman there, in her 50s, was reluctant initially but was persuaded by the others to accept the apologies and allow the guys to return.

There was also a degree of sympathy for Denny's plight. He would not receive the class credit he needed to graduate high school if Harvey terminated his work-study program. One of the younger women later told my Uncle that it was kind of fun working in the office with them, having seen the guys naked and then doing the underpants walk back to the Mailroom.