It's athletic shower day, and we start with an unnamed 1970s German football team.
Monday, January 12, 2026
1970s
This is supposed to be from a posh 1970s gym.
Or it could be a gay bath house, but what do I know?
Goofing around
I get a "goofing around at the YMCA" vibe from this one,
but the Y probably would have kept the shower cleaner.
Basingstoke
This cheeky team is a Basingstoke, England rugby outfit. I passed through Basingstoke once,
and I felt like I had been transported to a modern suburb of Kansas City.
Freiberg 1980
Eugen Nosko took this photo of a Freiberg, Germany sports team in the shower in 1980.
Both the color and black and white versions are circulating online.
1950s?
This is one of several photos of doubtful provenance in today's set. The website where I found it said this guy is a Mid-20th Century athlete, but they didn't have many shower stalls back then.
Steamy
If these guys are indeed sports figures as my source says,
they must have been shot putters or football linemen.
Happy
The only info I have on this happy group is that they are athletes and the photo is from 1947.
1944 St. Louis Browns
This is the shower room of the 1944 St. Louis Browns. Can you imagine a modern group of spoiled sport celebrity prima donnas setting foot in such a shabby facility. Oh, one more thing. If the men look old for pro sports, remember that it was wartime, and the younger guys were all in the service.
Sunday, January 11, 2026
Paul Poronides Day
A while back, I lamented my lack of photos of Jean Ferrero model Paul Poronides. As is so
often the case, I shortly heard from Brian E, who generously offered to send me his collection.
So today I'm posting ten of them, starting with this kneeling shot.
Thanks, Brian!
Encounter
When I first saw this photo of Paul Poronides, I let my imagintion run free
and had a vision of encountering him like this on a remote mountain trail.
Kneeling
Jean Ferrero used a kneeling modified flex pose quite effectively here.
Mr. Poronides, as usual, looks quite pleased to be there.
Tossing the ball
Even from a distance, we can see that Mr. Poronides enjoys tossing that beach ball.
Hands on Hips
The last picture in our Paul Poronides series shows him in a modified hands on hips pose.
Many thanks again to Brian E for sharing today's photos.
Saturday, January 10, 2026
Tyler Horn
Between the Australian clone magazine Cleo and the fact that several of my randoml 70s color photos of hairy men turned out to be Playgirl men, this almost became a Playgirl set. This handsome, smiling fellow is Tyler Horn, and he's the first of three PG models in this set that I know of.
Construction Guy
This one is not as hairy as most in today's set by far, but I included the unknown model posing as a construction worker because of the happy trail leading to that superb bush.
Oh, Daddy
I think this is from Honcho magazine during the stretch when they didn't ID their models
I like the photo below better than the composite above, but I had to include the corny caption.
Not Mr. Kelso
My dodgy source identified this cowboy as Steve Kelso.
I'm not at all convinced of that.
Morley Rolhaeuser
I found this unidentified on a random website and kept thinking he looked familiar.
Well, for once Google Image Search came through, and I learned that this is
retired 70s football star Morley Rolhaeuser from Playgirl.
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