Vintage Muscle Men

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Levis Day

Marvin from Des Moines wrote in and asked for a men in Levis series, and I am happy to oblige.

We start with a young man with what Google says is a 1967 Pontiac Tempest.

Is that a jockstrap peeking over the top of his jeans?

Hotrod

This proud hotrod owner should please

those of you who like lean guys.

San Francisco 1970s

These two guys did a photo shoot in San Francisco in the late 1970s.

Movie Star?

If this guy wasn't a movie star, he should have been one.

The wide leather watch band dates this to about 1970/

Early Days

A California museum curator has authenticated these mid-19th

Century miners as wearing one of the earlier versions of Levis.

Rower

Here we see an appealing middle aged man in Levis rowing a boat.

Lumber Yard

These two lumber yard workers look good together.

Either would do, but the blond is amazing.

Familiar

I kept thinking this guy looked familiar, and sure enough,

Google says its AMG model Dave Lancaster.

Grooming

This young man is grooming himself, and we can see the shiny rivets on his Levis.

Knows how to pose

Completing the Levi's series with a fellow who knows how to pose.

Thanks to Marvin from Des Moines for suggesting today's theme.

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Hippie Day

It's hippie day, and our first photo is a bearish protestor.

Shower

Someone rigged an outdoor shower somewhere in the country.

Waterfall

This guy is holding a stick in front of a waterfall.

Commune

Hippies founded dozens of communes, only a very few of which survive today.

This group painted a peace sign on their from porch.

Skinny Dippers

I think these two just went skinny dipping and are air drying themselves.

Italians

The Proletarian Youth Festival near Milan was the site of this 1975 photo. The proletarian

youth got naked and ran around for days until the beer and weed ran out.

Tom

This is a model whose name was listed only as Tom. He reminds me a little

of the much lamented Rob Reiner, aka Meathead from All in the Family.

Style?

Yes, men did actually walk around like this back in the day.

Hose Bath

Here we see a fellow preparing to take a bath with a hose at a commune.

Woodstock Staff

Our closing photo is said to be some of the "security" staff at Woodstock trying

to remove a man from some scaffolding for his own safety.

Monday, March 9, 2026

Name That Photographer

It's another Name That Photographer day, and it's a two part set, with part one being some well known men from physique modeling. We begin with Ed Fury doing archery at the beach.

Kip Behar

I found out where this one of Kip Behar is from, but a photographer was not named.

Let's see if any of you can take that clue and go somewhere.

Art Ullrich

Every other color photo I've seen of Art Ullrich is by Denny Denfield,

but nobody seems to have labeled this one as such.

Bill Grant

Several other bloggers have come up empty for a photographer's

name for this posing strap shot of Bill Grant. So have I.

Helmut Riedmeyer

Closing part one with Helmut Ridemeyer, a model who worked for about half a dozen photographers during his busy career. Whoever took this used a basic, but very effective, pose.

Name That Photographer, Part 2 - Lesser Knowns

For part two, we have some lesser known models, beginning with Tom Crabbe. The only attributed photo I have of him is supposed to be by Dick Falcon, but this doe not look like a Falcon photo. The wheel looks like one that Pat Milo used, but Russ Warner, Bruce, and others also used wheels.