Men in Gym Shorts by Request

Greg R. of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma sent in a request for more men in gym shorts, and I am happy to oblige.  This time, I am going with mostly championship level throwing event men from track and field.  We start with W.F. Roos, a Yale shot put and hammer throw star from about 1910.

 

Klaus Wolfermann

German Klaus Wolfermann won the Gold for the javelin throw at the 1972 Olympics.

If you look closely, you'll see a peekaboo bulge coming out of his right shorts leg.

And as is typical for this type of athlete, his thighs are amazing.

 

Kenneth Carpenter

Kenneth Carpenter was an American discus thrower who appeared 

in Leni Riefenstahl's 1936 movie, Olympia.  An NCAA and AAU 

champion in the 1930s, he went on to a successful coaching career.

 

Football Team

These eleven men appear to be an American football team, 

but several searches failed to locate them.

 

Geoff Capes

Englishman Geoff Capes was a celebrated shot putter, a sport which he won at the Commonwealth Games and placed in at the European championship level.  He went on the a second career in the Highland Games throwing events and won World's Strongest Man twice.

 

Tom Petranoff

American Javelin thrower Tom Petranoff set a world record in 1983

and won Silver at the World Championship that same year.

 

Patrick Ryan

As one of the Irish-American weight throwers known as the Irish Whales, Patrick Ryan was

 phenomenal at the hammer throw.  He set a world record in 1913 that stood for 25 years,

and won the Gold as the 1920 Olympics shown above.

 

Hal Connolly

American hammer throw champion Hal Connolly gets a congratulatory handshake as he leaves the field.  (A friendly pat on the bottom might have been more appealing, but whatever.)

Mr. Connolly won the Gold in his chosen sport at the 1956 Olympics.

By the way, the thighs on both these men ae impressive.

 

Louis Hostin

This is French weightlifter Louis Hostin, and he participated in the 1928, 1932, and 1936 Olympics.

He won the Silver in '28 and Gold in both '32 and '36 for his weight class.

 

Danes

These are Danish athletes doing a physical culture demonstration

on a good will visit to Washington, D.C. in 1923.

 

Miguel de la Quadra-Salcedo

Here we see Miguel de la Quadra-Salcedo winding up to throw the discus.  Although he was a highly regarded Spanish athlete, he never placed at the Olympic or World Championship levels.  He did go on to a very successful career as a TV journalist specializing in "brushfire" wars, having been 

sentenced in absentia to death for filming the illegal execution of 300 Congolese rebels.

 

Bob Kuechenberg

Closing the gym shorts set with a "new" photo of pro footballer Bob Kuechenberg.  When I posted 

two other photos of this finely aged man, he got several positive comments.

 

Les Demi Dieux

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Nestor Derkach

I think this photo of Nestor Derkach was made the anteroom to a gym locker room in New York.  Danny Fitzgerald was a small man who chatted up men in gyms by asking them for workout tips.

This often led to modeling sessions and who knows what else.

 

Richard Bennett

This is Richard Bennett, Danny Fitzgerald's lover and most frequently photographed model.  

I got tired of looking at him years ago (not my type), but I include him here because he's an 

important part of the artist's life and because I know many of you will enjoy seeing him.

 

Danny

The model here is known only as Danny, and that pipe looks like a gun.

Danny was likely one of the young men from the streets of Brooklyn

whom Danny Fitzgerald photographed clothed.

 

Johnny Dibiase

Here we have auto mechanic Johnnie Dibiase.

 

Unknown

Several bloggers and at least one archivist have tried to identify this model without success.

 

Tommy 1964

The lighting and the peekaboo view make this 1964 picture 

of a model known only as Tommy special, imho.

 

Brooklyn Street Type II

This is another of those young men Danny Fitzgerald photographed on the streets of Brooklyn.

 

Orest Daszo

Danny Fitzgerald posed Orest Daszo in front of a tombstone to make 

him look like an angel, something I'm pretty sure he was not.

 

Billly Wright

Finishing the set with Billy Wright in the woods.

 

Douglas of Detroit, Part 1 - Nudes

We have a two part series today featuring the work of Doug Juleff, aka Douglas of Detroit.

Part one is a selection of nudes, starting with Mike Dubel and a bamboo screen.

 

Dick Buckholz

Doug Juleff didn't take all that many derriere photos, but when he did, 

they were very good.  This one is Dick Buckholz.

 

Vic Seipke and Jim Park

These two men with fan palm fronds are Vic Seipke and Jim Park

You'll see Mr. Seipke in trunks later today.

 

Al Walch

That's probably the same bamboo screen that Mike Dubel posed in front of.

This time the model was Al Walch.

 

Stan Stanczyk

Pulling a chain between his hands made a good pose for Stan Stanczyk.

 

Douglas of Detroit - Intermission

Lest we forget the price Doug Juleff paid for his art, here's this item from the March 18, 1955 edition of the Detroit Free Press.  I have no information on how the psychiatric exam went, but he ended up doing six months in jail.  That was about average for such "offenses" in those days, but the worst part was the destruction of much of his work and the ending of his career.  Oh, and just to add insult to injury, his own father cooperated with the police during the raid.  Don't think for a minute that there aren't people working right now to take us back to those dark days.

 

Douglas of Detroit, Part 2 - Men in Trunks

Part two of our Douglas of Detroit set features men in trunks, an aspect of Doug Juleff's work that doesn't get a lot of attention.  We begin with Sam Adams in a geometric pose.

 

Wladek "Tarzan" Kowalski

Windsor, Ontario was home for Wladek Kowalski, a professional wrestler who started his career 

as Tarzan Kowalski, but switched after a few years to the alliterative Killer Kowalski.

Apparently he hopped across the Detroit River to be photographed by Doug Juleff.

 

Vic Seipke

Color photos by Doug Juleff are rather rare, so I was quite happy 

to find this one of Vic Seipke taken on the shores of Lake Michigan.

 

Don van Fleteren

We get the straight forward look from Don van Fleteren.

 

Unknown

Ending the series with an unknown model pulling a rope.