Airborne Day, Part 1 - Assorted Nude Aviation

Today's theme is naked aviation, and it's a two part series.  We begin with an assorted group,

the first of which is this guy who may be about to pivot the plane.

 

Greeting

What a nice way to greet an incoming flight!

 

Naked 'Copter

My brother-in-law used to work in a helicopter factory in Fort Worth, 

so who knows?  He may have helped make this thing.

 

Jaybird

Those of you with an aversion to naked females

will want to scroll past this one.

 

Seaplane Stunt

I think these men are servicing a very large seaplane during World War II.

 

Color

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Gasoline

The last aviator in part one is pouring gasoline into a small aircraft.

 

Airborne Day, Part 2 - Golden Boys' Nude Skydiver

Golden Boys was one of the male nude magazines that multiplied in the late 1960s following the liberalization of U.S. obscenity laws.  Like Wyngate & Bevins, they Golden Boys sometimes used the nudist ploy to elude lingering legal issues.  In their fourth edition in late 1967, they featured a guy named Rick skydiving in the nude, and that is the subject of part two of today's set.

As you will see, I have doubts about the authenticity of some of the action shots.

 

Observer/Landing Roll

The guy with the binoculars is supposed to be an observer,

but he looks a whole lot like the model/skydiver.

 

Hung up?

Our hero looks like he's on his way down, but I think they hung him from a tree to look like it.

Somehow, I don't think he would have come down that close to a tree. 

But I could be wrong.  I've been wrong lots of times.

 

Packing

Golden Boys put this photo of the skydiver packing his chute in the middle of the photo essay,

and I can't tell if the process is part of the pre- or post-dive routine.

 

Landing?

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Finished

In the last image of the sequence, our skydiver seems to be getting out of his gear.

 

Dick Falcon Day

This is Dick Falcon, a 1930s bodybuilder who took up photography himself.  Today we will look at some of his work.  I don't know if this is a self portrait or if someone else took it.

 

Tom Crabbe

This derriere view is Tom Crabbe.

 

Of or by?

I haven't been able to figure out if this April 1936 magazine cover 

is a photo of or if it is by Dick Falcon.

 

Unknown 345

This unknown Dick Falcon model had catalog number 345.

 

Dale Curry

Dale Curry was a popular model whose career extended from the late 1940s into the early 1960s.  He appeared in a Dick Falcon photo for MANual magazine and also in an ad, but I can find no more photos of him attributed to Mr. Falcon.  The ad promised at least six.  Anybody have more?

 

Year, but no names

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Bill Stewart

Dick Falcon took at least half a dozen photos of Bill Stewart in the 1950s.

 

Darryl Powers

The beard and long hair may surprise some of you, but this is Champion model Darryl Powers, aka Lance Ponton, in a photo by Dick Falcon.  Mr. Falcon and Walter Kundzic of Champion Studio partnered for a while in the Sunset Beach Club nudist resort where Darryl worked and modeled.

 

Trio

The staging and hair styles in this one make me think that 

it was from early in Dick Falcon's career as a photographer.

 

Another unknown

Our last photo by Dick Falcon is a kneeling unknown model.

 

Locker Room Day

It's locker room day, and we start with what I believe are some British footballers.

 

Steam

I like the way the men are looking at one another in this photo of a steam room.

 

Browns

This picture is so old that the Browns were still in St. Louis.

 

Baltimore

This is one of several photos taken in 1960 in the Baltimore Orioles locker room.

The men may be watching a TV news report of their just finished game.

 

Autograph party

That's Hank Aaron at left in the Braves locker room at a group baseball autographing session.

The player in the background wearing only a jockstrap is interesting.

 

1979

This is a 1979 Australian Rugby League medical exam.

Anyone know the handsome bear's name?

 

Crowd

Someone removed the LIFE watermark from this version of a crowded locker room.

 

Derek Sanderson

Boston Bruins hockey player Derek Sanderson is smiling because his father

brought him a packet of Bisto gravy mix, a Canadian favorite.

 

Treatment

This looks like a locker room treatment area where a trainer is working on a player

 in a jockstrap's elbow while another waits to have his knee looked at.  In the meantime, 

the guy at the sink seems to be gargling.  Busy little scene.

 

Dodgers

The last locker room photo of the set shows Kurt Spooner

 of the Dodgers hurrying off somewhere.