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Not long ago, I featured a single photo of Jim Stryker in a series on the somewhat
obscure Vulcan Studio. (He also worked for Champion.) Typically, I yearned
for more, and viewer Uncle Vic came through with today's set. We start
with a portrait that the young man could have sent home to his mom.
Many thanks to Uncle Vic for providing the material for this series!
What happened to Jim Stryker? Is he related to Jeff Stryker?
ReplyDeleteSee Calorman's comment below:
DeleteAs far as I have been led to believe, Jim Stryker came from quite a well-to-do, East Coast family and made his modelling debut with Walter Kundzicz’s Champion Studios whilst at university in New York (echos of Dick Stark). There is indeed a whiff of the preppy Ivy League about him. He apparently had a sense of entitlement about as big as a Stryker Family trust fund which, in tandem with a voracious sexual appetite for both sexes, made him extremely promiscuous. He fades from the modelling scene early on... and given that the magazine photographs have him in briefs or bathers (echos of Dick Stark), I imagine the full frontals were for private consumption - at doubtless a hefty fee - or for later publication.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the details, Julian! Fascinating stuff.
DeleteThank you, Jerry and Uncle Vic, for this fine series. As nice as the nudes are, the above photo is the best of the lot. Those eyes, that face, the hair: I'm sure everyone wanted to ... be with him.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome! The photo above is my favorite, too.
DeleteHe definitely came from wealth. There's a foto from 1960 of Stryker standing next to the front of an early 50s British luxury car with NY plates....:)
ReplyDeletemy pleasure.....
ReplyDeleteJim Stryker ist so gutaussehend wie en Filmstar. Liebesspeiler 'heart throbs' Tab Hunter und Troy Donohue kommen einem in den Sin, ebenso wie Toni Sailer und Christan Anders in Oesterreich. Ein wilder Mann mit einer wilden Bettmanier.
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ja, et filmidol, et homofil fotoidol. sa kjekk djevel denne stryker, en promiskuos rik gutt. rikdom gir tilgang til mange laster i norge med var oljerikdom, bortskjemte brat oljebarn er et problem. *osloson
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