When They Were Young

[TruthBTold]

JOHN TRISTRAM (1935-1985) was a British-born bodybuilding champion and physique model. He emigrated to the U.S. in the 1950s, modeled for AMG and appeared in many 1950s and 1960s fitness magazines, including Physique Pictorial, Health and Strength, and Muscle Builder. He later taught French at UCLA.

 

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"Of the models whom I have researched, I know the least about Tristram, the British-born bodybuilder who began his modeling career as John Trenton in posing-strap magazines and ended up as a Mr. America contestant … In many ways, what remains of Tristram is typical of what remains of most physique models: a history comprised of unsubstantiated rumors and anecdotes with very few facts to support them. Nonetheless, Tristram was hardly a typical physique model. In addition to being a leading contestant in a variety of big-name professional competitions, he was one of the few bodybuilders of his time who admitted his homosexuality. Although a muscle-bound “hunk,” Tristram made his living in the uncharacteristically cerebral world of academia, as a professor of French … "

 

-- KENNETH KRAUSS, from his book Male Beauty: Postwar Masculinity in Theater, Film and Physique Magazines

 

 

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Does he at times look like porn star Matt Ramsey?

[RealAvalon]

That is interesting. Taught French at UCLA.

French has a swallowed 'R' sound. Throat fucking must help with the accent.

[Whitman]

Alf Goulett (rhymes with roulette), 1891-1995, was an Australian bicyclist who won over 400 races on three continents and set six world records. Seen here in 1924, a year before he retired from cycling, he is 33:

 

 

Goulett was so popular by the 1920s that he was paid $1,000 for a day of racing at a time when a manual laborer brought home $5 a day.

 

An American citizen after 1916, Goulett sold life insurance and owned and operated a skating rink in Wayne Township, NJ after his retirement from cycling in 1925. He was inducted into the Madison Square Garden Hall of Fame and the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1986, into the US Bicycling Hall of Fame in1988 and, posthumously, into the Cycling Australia Hall of Fame in 2016. He died in Toms River, NJ in 1995 at age 103.

[+ honcho]

I agree (to the point that I considered not including the clean shaven picture). The beard works!

Well, I think he is cuter clean shaven.

Everybody is.

 

I think we will have to agree to disagree ... You're entitled to your esthetic preferences, of course. And there's the practical benefit that Like Spratt and Spouse, there's more for each of us.

[+ oldNbusted]

Robert Blake (1967, at about 34) looking like my kind of dirty white boy.

 

[JayCeeKy]

[TruthBTold]

 

And very high ranking on a couple of the House committees.

[RealAvalon]

He should so more of his media interviews at the beach, in a speedo …

[Whitman]

Edward Villella (born in 1936, he'll be 84 on October 1) became a member of the New York City Ballet in 1957, rising to soloist the next year and principal dancer in 1960. He danced at the inaugural of John F. Kennedy, is the only American ever asked to dance an encore at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, was a Kennedy Center Honors recipient in 1997 and received the National Medal of Arts from Bill Clinton.

 

[Whitman]

His father expected him to be a barrister, but Maurice Barrymore (born Herbert Arthur Chamberlayne Blythe, 1849-1905) became a stage actor and the patriarch of the Barrymore acting family. He was the father of Lionel, Ethel and John, and the great-grandfather of Drew.

 

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[Whitman]

Buster Crabbe (1908-1983) won the 1932 Olympic gold medal in the 400-meter freestyle swimming event. After that, his spectacular good looks got him into the movies. He is best remembered for the popular movie serials in which he appeared from 1933 into the 1950s, playing the top three syndicated comic strip heroes of the 1930s: Tarzan, Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers.

 

 

Below, in 1934's (pre-Code) Search for Beauty, he is enthusiastic for a shower:

 

 

 

[Danny-Darko]

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Young Alec Baldwin.

[Danny-Darko]

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Burt Reynolds famous Cosmopolitan 1972 centerfold. (I thank Whitman for the correction and date!)

Edited December 21, 2020 by Danny-Darko

[Danny-Darko]

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James Dean listening on his reel to reel tape recordings

[gallahadesquire]

Bill Cable (born William Laurence Cumpanas) 1946-1998

 

Some more:

http://blackdogue.net/Playgirl/BillCable/BillCable.html

[Whitman]

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Burt Reynolds famous Cosmopolitan 1972 centerfold.

Cosmo Editor Helen Gurley Brown pitched the centerfold to Reynolds as a milestone in the sexual revolution, and told him he was “the one man who could pull it off.” He later learned she had gone to Paul Newman first, but Newman declined.

[Danny-Darko]

Cosmo Editor Helen Gurley Brown pitched the centerfold to Reynolds as a milestone in the sexual revolution, and told him he was “the one man who could pull it off.” He later learned she had gone to Paul Newman first, but Newman declined.

 

Thank you Whitman for the story behind the story about this historical photo! ? I remember as a kid discreetly taking a look at it every time we would go to the store. My parents thought I was reading comics and looking at car magazines while they shopped. ?

[TruthBTold]

Cosmo Editor Helen Gurley Brown pitched the centerfold to Reynolds as a milestone in the sexual revolution, and told him he was “the one man who could pull it off.” He later learned she had gone to Paul Newman first, but Newman declined.

 

Newman always had class.

[Danny-Darko]

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John Schneider has been a familiar face for 40 years on shows like THE DUKES OF HAZZARD. ?

[Danny-Darko]

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Clint Eastwood

[Danny-Darko]

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David Cassidy

[Danny-Darko]

Rock Hudson

[Danny-Darko]

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John Travolta circa late 70's ?

[Danny-Darko]

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VIGGO MORTENSEN ? One of the few actors that does his own full nude scenes in movies.

Edited December 28, 2020 by Danny-Darko

[+ Pensant]

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David Cassidy

There were rumors that he was hung.