Fewer than twenty years separate these images from silent films, and of course popular culture was particularly engaged with dance, modern or otherwise. So athletes, bodybuilders, dancers — they all trooped into photo studios to be memorialized.
Many fine physiques were honed from service in the military during Ww2. My bodybuilding uncle built his physique up during his Ww2 service in the USN. He went in as a 17 year old in 1944 and left the service in 1947. He worked out to exercise and relieve tedious boredom while serving at an amphibious aircraft and seaplane base in the Caribbean 1944-1945. He said his service there was like a vacation, though the hurricane season June to October was at times rough. From 1946-1947 he worked as a guard at Suisun Bay, California when all the USN warships were being decommissioned and mothballed. In his free time he would head to Washington Park in Alameda and Merritt Lake in Oakland to workout with top bodybuilders of the area. -Rj
In Suid-Afrika in baie fyn fisieks deur boere en soldate tydens die oorlog ontwikkel. 'n Paar van hulle het fisiekmodelle geword en is genooi na die elite gay-salonne van fyn huise in Jo'Burg en Pretoria, en in strand villas in Kaapstad en Durban. - Praetorius
Many fine physiques were honed from service in the military during Ww2. My bodybuilding uncle built his physique up during his Ww2 service in the USN. He went in as a 17 year old in 1944 and left the service in 1947. He worked out to exercise and relieve tedious boredom while serving at an amphibious aircraft and seaplane base in the Caribbean 1944-1945. He said his service there was like a vacation, though the hurricane season June to October was at times rough. From 1946-1947 he worked as a guard at Suisun Bay, California when all the USN warships were being decommissioned and mothballed. In his free time he would head to Washington Park in Alameda and Merritt Lake in Oakland to workout with top bodybuilders of the area.
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In Suid-Afrika in baie fyn fisieks deur boere en soldate tydens die oorlog ontwikkel. 'n Paar van hulle het fisiekmodelle geword en is genooi na die elite gay-salonne van fyn huise in Jo'Burg en Pretoria, en in strand villas in Kaapstad en Durban.
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