It's Pat Rocco day again, and we start with Mr. Rocco and a handsome fellow I haven't been able to identify. He might have been film crew, but his good looks make me think he was the star.
Monday, February 24, 2025
Voldemar and Greg
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This catalog cover features two popular models, Voldemar (aka Richard Jalakas) and Greg Lion. Voldemar appears later in today's set with a different model.
Costume
I can't figure out what the headwear and scarf are about in this shot Mr. Rocco took
outside the Paramount Studios main gate, but it's probably part
of a project I'll describe a bit more in a later post today.
Contact Sheet I - Voldemar and Shawn Zee
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Movie Ad
Mr. Rocco's publication, SPREE News Pictorial, was a convenient venue for advertising
his films and photo sets. This film featured one new and one already popular model/actor.
Boy Play
This is part of a 1970 photo set Mr. Rocco called Boy Play.
I could not find the models' names.
Cowboy
Pat Rocco shot a lot of photos of naked men in iconic Los Angeles locations. Many of those were published as a photo essay called I Love LA, but I'm not sure if this cowboy was one of those.
Contact Sheet II - Alan Dark
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Our second photo cropped from a likely contact sheet is Alan Dark. Nearly all the pictures on Alan's sheet were of good to excellent quality, but only a few appear to have ever been published.
Sunday, February 23, 2025
Hood Ornament
This is a page from an early 20th Century fitness book. Henry Steinborn,
the guy at top, looks like he's posing to be a Packard hood ornament.
Below, we have Adolph Nordquest showing off some fine muscles.
North African
This resembles the work of Lehnert and Landrock, two Germans who photographed
a lot of North African nudes around 1900. Unfortunately, nearly all were females,
and I'm not even remotely sure that this man is theirs.
Man with sword
I have no information on this one, other than that it was being sold as early 20th Century.
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Kara Pasha
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Wrestler Paul Gregorian, aka Kara Pasha, posed for Crown Studios of Wellington, New Zealand in 1930. The oiling and pose look like the American physique photos of over a decade later.
The photo is in the New Zealand National Library, Wellington Branch.
Familiar Model
This model looks familiar, but neither Google Images search
nor Edge's photo search came up with anything.
Leopold Mercier
Our last early 20th Century photo is two wrestlers taken by Leopold Mercier in 1900.
Saturday, February 22, 2025
Squatters
Today we look at some squatters, and I don't mean those pesky lowlife types who move into vacant properties without paying rent. We start with Bill Cable by Colt.
David O'Boyle
Bob Mizer said of David O'Boyle, "And what a scamp that one was!" David must have been "special" to get that sort of remark from Mr. Mizer, whose stable of models included every imaginable hustler, thief, huckster, street tough, and at least one murderer. All in a day's work, I suppose.
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