Thursday, October 31, 2024

Halloween 2024

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It's Halloween, and we start the show with a guy who almost didn't have a thing to wear.  
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AMG

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I stole this one from James over at Men From Back Then  .  It's from the AMG movie The Witch and the Hoods featuring Jim Higgins, Jackie...
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Musketeers

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These Musketeers attended a Castro Street Halloween event in the late 1970s.  
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Horror or Bondage?

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This looks like a scene from either a bad bondage move or a bad horror movie.  
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T-shirt

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The only thing vintage about this is the shirt design, but once I saw that model . . .   
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Pageant

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This bit of cultural appropriation is from a nudist pageant of some sort, probably not a Halloween party.  
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AMG II

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This looks like a scene from an AMG movie, but I don't know which one. Perhaps someone will inform us shortly.  
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Little Devil

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The Devil made him do it.  

Men in Uniform

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This is another 1970s San Francisco Halloween celebration. A Boy Scout and a sailor have fallen in lust.  
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Halloween 2019

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Our last photo is a repeat from five Halloweens ago.  
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Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Professor Desbonnet Day

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Professor Edmond Desbonnet (1867-1953) was a French academic and photographer who popularized physical culture in late 19th and early 20th C...
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Built

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This Desbonnet student's abs are remarkable.  
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Edmond Desbonnet did not do all the photography for his published exercise guides, and this one was done by Walery.  As  you'll see late...

Book Revival

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David Chapman is someone all of us who admire vintage physical culture photos should be thankful for.  He has not only curated and preserved...
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Sandow Ad

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Eugen Sandow appeared in a remarkable ad for Prof. Desbonnet's gym.  
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Rear

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The well formed glutes are the main attraction here.  
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Celebrity Wrestlers

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This photo is from Desbonnet's book The Kings of Wrestling.  While I'm not certain that he had his own stable of wrestlers, we can a...
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Contrast

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Professor Desbonnet gives us two very contrasting models here.  
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Outlier

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This photo appeared in the important magazine La Culture Physique as an example  of Prof. Desbonnet's results.  I'm not sure if G. R...

Back view

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Although the model's derriere is quite nice, his back muscles first drew my attention.  

Everyman

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Although he's built well enough, I get an "everyman" vibe from this one.  
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Overhang

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Something tells me that someone was holding the model's legs for this photo. Having said that, I still find it impressive.  
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Tuesday, October 29, 2024

WWII Australian Troops Getting a Bath

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Our theme for the day is World War II Australian troops getting their bath. We start with some fellow happy to help out their friend.  
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New Guinea I

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The location for the mass bath was Nadzab Air Strip in New Guinea, 1943. If you look closely there's a money shot in the left background.  
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Helping hand

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Here we have two Australians using half an oil drum as a bathtub.  

At sea

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I didn't know they had bathtubs on WWII ships, but the Australian War Museum says that this photo was made at sea in 1945.  
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New Guinea II

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These men are having a washup in Madang, New Guinea in 1944.  
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Stop action

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Not a lot of skin on display here, but the stop action photography is excellent.  
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1944

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I don't have a location for this one, but the year was 1944.  

Malaya 1941

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These Australian troops are heading down a river bank to have a bath in Malaya in 1941. Within a few months, most of them would be prisoners...

Puppy Love

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This Australian soldier and his dog are gettting their bath together.  
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New Guinea III

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In our third photo from New Guinea, two men are getting a bath in a shallow pond.  
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