Monday, June 16, 2025

Military Day

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It's military day, and I have no location for this item from the LIFE archive. As usual, Google Images search came up empty.  
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Unknown

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I found this on a military website, but they gave no information on it.  

Signal Corps I

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This is the first of two World War I photos from the U.S. Army Signal Corps.  
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New Zealanders

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Henry Armytage Sanders took this photo on July 7, 1917 of the last moments  of a New Zealand Army water sports day event in France.  I espec...

Christmas Island 1958

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Larry K. over at  The Unashamed Male  sent this movie clip for Operation Grapple, a British series of nuclear tests on Christmas Island in 1...
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New Guinea

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These men are Americans on New Guinea in World War II.  
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Poland Ca. 1930

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This photo is by the historically important Interwar era Polish photographer Narcyz Witczak-Witacayrisk.  These soldiers are having a relaxi...

World War II

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This looks like a World War II photo, and if I had to guess the nationality, I'd say German.  

Vietnam

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All I know about this one is that it is from Vietnam.  
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Signal Corps II

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Our closing military photo is another U.S. Army Signal Corps  gang shower scene from World War I.  
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Sunday, June 15, 2025

Gym Shorts Day

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It's gym shorts day, and no, our first photo is not the 1978 bar backs from the Marlin Beach Hotel in Fort Lauderdale.  They are rugby p...
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Hunk

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Just a hunch, but I'm guessing this hunk did the shot put  for a college that started with the letter C.  
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Estonians?

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My source says these are 1922 Estonian athletes, but the names sound Russian and German.  Then I recalled that over the centuries a sprinkli...
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Clone Prototype?

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For a brief moment I thought I'd found the prototype for the 1970s gay clone look, but then I noticed he lacked the obligatory gym socks...
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Football Team

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These football players seem to be a very friendly lot.  
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Frank Muck

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I think Frank Muck was the captain of the University of Wisconsin track team in 1929. I'm more certain that he got a lot of ribbing beca...
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Trio II

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Our second trio of the day was labeled simply "Football." Google Images search was no help at all.  
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Here we see the 1947 Chicago Bears with coach George Halas at left and center  Fred Davis at (where else?) center.  I could find no names fo...
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Coach?

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This guy looks like he might be a coach watching his team at work. He could coach me any day, and would you look at that hair pattern?  
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Symbolism

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Freud would have had a field day (pun intended)  with our last photo of men in gym shorts.  
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Saturday, June 14, 2025

Mandate Magazine Day

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In the 1970s a number of well known male nude models and porn stars, both current and future, appeared in Mandate magazine.  Some of the wor...
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Jordon Hunter

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This off center photo of Jordon Hunder was in Mandate in 1978.  
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Tony Crater

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Ben Chapin

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It was October of 1977 when Ben Chapin did a photo spread in Mandate.  
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Richard Locke

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The bearard only had a few touches of gray, and the daddy look he became famous for was still nascent, but that is unmistakably Richard Lock...

Gordon Grant

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Colt provided quite a few photos for Mandate.   This one of Gordon Grant appeared in June of 1976  
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Al Parker

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This centerfold photo of Al Parker was taken by Jim French of Colt, and I believe it is from Mandate's May, 1979 issue.  
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Club Baths

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This ad for the NYC Club Baths ran in Mandate's September 1975 issue, and more than likely appeared in other publications as well.  
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August 1978

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   Mandate's cover men were sure to get newstand browsers (at least the gay male ones) to want to take a look inside.  This is a prime e...
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Billy Mars

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Initially, the only name I could find for this 1979 Mandate model  was "Billy," but some searches revealed the surname Mars.  
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Chuck Gatlin

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Chuck Gatling and a cat licking himself appeared in the November, 1977 issue of Mandate.  
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