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Monday, November 28, 2022

Three Days of Popular Themes, Part 2 - Low Hangers Popup


For day two of our popular themes stretch, I've chosen some models with low hangers whose named I do not know.  This fellow looks like he could have worked for Lon of New York or Al Urban.

 

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  1. This is Jules Bacon.

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    1. I'm glad to see you're participating in Jerry's and my posts over at MFBT. Keep up the work sharing your knowledge of vintage photography.

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    2. Keep up the GOOD work! I missed a word.

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    3. Thanks, F.T.! I should have recognized Mr. Bacon. I've even posted several pictures of him in the past.

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    4. Thank you, I enjoy both blogs and it sharpens my recognition skills for real life.

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  2. Jules was named Mr. America in 1943.

    Jerry, I posted a photo of him about a year ago. You identified him and the photographer (Lon) for me. Since then, I learned he also posed for Al Urban. So you're right. It could be either.

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    1. Thanks, James, and those two photographers had similar styles as well as some shared models. If there were a column or a Rococo architectural detail, we'd know it was by Lon.

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  3. Further inferences to support the provenance being Lon of NY. Al Urban used a lot of Hispanic and Italian models. Julian (Jules being the diminutive) was a very uncommon name outside the Latin and Jewish communities at that time. (Julián being the Spanish and Giuliano the Italian versions of the name.) Bacon is presumed to be a metonymic surname deriving from the German and introduced into England by the Normans for someone who originally prepared and sold cured pork. It could, of course, in America be an Anglicization of some other name. (I did hear of a Romanian Jew whose surname was Bacon who changed it when he arrived in America after the war!) Anyhow, the picture does have a very Lonish look and Jules Bacon looks sufficiently Latin for the pieces to fit.

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  4. I wouldn't mind a slab of that bacon.
    -Rj/IE

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    1. I'm sure that plenty of vegetarians would like some of that tasty bacon.

      Peter

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