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Showing posts with label Whatever happened to . . .. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Whatever happened to Don Deckman?

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Whenever I've posted photos of Don Deckman (1935-2020), they've always had a great response from viewers, so I've finally got ar...
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Star High School Athlete

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While he lettered in both football and baseball at Burbank High School in LA, Don Deckman really excelled at baseball.  The newspaper clippi...

Senior Class Photo

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This is Don Deckman's Senior yearbook photo.  The man's strong work ethic goes way back.  He had a job as a bag boy at a Burbank sup...

Minor League Baseball

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Mr. Deckman was signed by the Cleveland Indians in 1954 and played in their minor league system for three seasons in the Southwest.  Pauls V...

AMG Slide

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If Bob Mizer's notes are to be believed, Don Deckman posed for this color slide at age 17, after taking up weight training a year earlie...

AMG Catalog

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This catalog sheet from AMG intrigues me very much as it may include the earliest modeling work done by Don Deckman.  Bob Mizer was still us...
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Grecian Guild Pictorial

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Grecian Guild Pictorial was a magazine published on the East Coast from 1955 to 1968 that featured material from its own studio as well as o...

Bamboo shade?

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I think that may be a bamboo window shade or mat turned  on its side behind Mr. Deckman in this Pat Milo photo.  

Derriere

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Other than the catalog sheet from AMG, there aren't that many derriere shots of Don Deckman.   Those we do have do tend to be very, very...
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Pat Milo Posing Strap

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Not all of Pat Milo's photos of Don Deckman are full frontals, and this nice one with a wagon wheel is a good example.  

Mystery Magazine

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This obviously is a page from an unknown magazine published after 1968, years past when  Don Deckman stopped modeling. The photo has been au...

Proportions

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For some reason I can't explain, this Pat Milo picture made me think  of how finely proportioned Don Deckman's body was.  

That Hamper

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Pat Milo used a painted wicker laundry hamper to good effect in this picture of  Don Deckman, as well as some others photos of both Don and ...

Number Two

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This photo came with no information,  just that cryptic "number two" at lower right.  

Looking right at us

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Mr. Deckman isn't looking straight into the camera in this Pat Milo photo, but he give the impression of looking right at the viewer.  
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Physique Pictorial 1962

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This may be the latest dated physique photo of Don Deckman.  It is from a 1962 edition of Bob Mizer's Physique Pictorial magazine and st...

Financial Services

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By the mid 1960s, Mr. Deckman's occupation was listed as a salesman on city directories of the Los Angeles area.  No indication as to wh...

Obituary Photo

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I couldn't find any photos of Don Deckman taken after his modeling days other than this one which was attached to the skimpiest obituary...
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Monday, April 10, 2023

Ed Fury, 1928-2023

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  Ed Fury passed away on February 24, 2023 at his home in Woodland Hills, California  at the age of 94.  Born Edmund Holovchik in Long Islan...
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Monday, March 27, 2023

Seven Models in Seven Days, Part 5 - Whatever happened to Bill Derrick

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William Robert "Bill" Derrick was born in 1928 in a farmhouse outside Ben Wheeler, Texas.  After high school, he did a tour in the...
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