Snow Day

You all have my permission to stay home from work 

or school today, because it's a snow day.

 

Longjohn Soldiers

These soldiers went out in the snow in their longjohns and boots.

 

Remember, it's cold

"Of course it looks small.  It's freakin' cold out here."

 

Moon

This guy is mooning us and doing a mean downhill at the same time.

 

Moscow 1961

When I first saw this Moscow photo, I didn't quite believe the dating of 1961.

It is correct, however, and the photographer was LIFE's Carl Mydans.

 

Crystal Ridge

These men were on an outing to Crystal Ridge in 1930.  

I posted a different photo from this trip back in December.

 

Near LA?

This one looks like an LA photographer took a model up to Big Bear.

 

German or Finnish?

My source thought these fellows were Germans, but they look like Finns to me.

 

1929

I have a date for this one, 1929, and it just might be FKK.

 

Walking off

Our last naked man in the snow is walking off towards a mountain.

 

Pat Rocco Day

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.

 

Voldemar and Greg

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.

 

Tim

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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.

 

1978 Cover

The winners of 1978's Hunky Guy Contest appeared on the cover of SPREE Pictorial.

 

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

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.

 

Early 20th Century

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Athlete

Based on the shoes, I'd say this guy was an athlete.

 

Soldier

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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.

 

Damaged

This damage image looks as though it may have been an anatomical or medical piece.

 

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

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.