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Saturday, February 1, 2025

Jules Bacon


Mr. America of 1943 was Jules Bacon, a bodybuilder who posed numerous times 
for Al Urban and went on to found a chain of fitness gyms in Pennsylvania.
Mr. Bacon is in the Bodybuilders Hall of Fame.

 

5 comments:

  1. Do you reckon this photo is in the Hall of Fame? Lol.

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  2. Bacon had a great aesthetic physique, typical of a bodybuilder in his day.
    Bacon was from the York Barbell Club of Pennsylvania where other bodybuilder greats trained. Urban use to hit the gyms on the East Coast to recruit his physique models.
    Rex in DC

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    1. The York brand got behind a lot of these guys for what became very beneficial relationships for all parties.

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