After a big party and several cocktails, we dropped our laundry. Speedie lays claim to the idea to print and sell the now legendary posters, but Spence says he has reprinting rights and plans to market another 1,000 for a massive Whistler reunion this April. According to Paul Mathews, second from the left, and president of Ecosign, a hugely successful Whistler-based mountain resort planning firm, the Londoner maintains a policy of serving free liquor to anyone who can prove they posed for the shot. Not long ago, when Mathews tried to take them up on it, a dubious Austrian shouted at him to drop his pants. Spence, one of the few people from the picture to actually live on the Toad Hall premises, helped Speedie set up the shot.
Much rumour surrounds the picture.
I was told, for example, that three former Whistler mayors appear in it. Spence also tells me that he is unable to speak specifically about the line-up of people. Not everyone is as amenable as Hurren to having their nakedness forever exposed. Toad Hall was the mess hall on what used to be the site of a logging company in Whistler. For several years the company rented its property and cabins.