He's still tan after all these years

Richard Gwin/Journal-World

The Tan Man lives.

For years he was a Lawrence icon, frequently seen running around town shirtless while soaking up the sun, even during cold weather, or lounging on the grass in summer shorts near Wescoe Hall on the Kansas University campus.

“It was a lot of fun,” John Schneider said as he recalled those days recently from his northern Lawrence mobile home.

Now 63, Schneider — better known as the Tan Man during the 1970s and 1980s — lives in shirted obscurity. But he still spends at least an hour every afternoon without a shirt, just standing on the sidewalk, catching the rays outside his home.

“I don’t go up on campus,” he said

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