Billy Hawkins

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Jimmy Lewis at Muscle Beach

Dick Sanchez

Dick Tasse at Muscle Beach

Happy days

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Billy Hawkins

Richard Du Bois

Ed Fury

Les and Pudgy Stockton by Bruce of Los Angeles

The crowd at Muscle Beach

 

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Dick Sanchez by Athletic Model Guild

Duke Freeman by AMG

Dick Tasse by AMG

The top finishers at the Mr. Muscle Beach contest, 1956: Millard Williamson (winner), flanked by (joint second) Doug Strohl (left) and Robert Walker (right), who became Mr. Southern California in 1958. The same trio placed in the top positions at the 1956 Mr. Venice Beach contest, with Doug Strohl first, Robert Walker second, and Millard Williamson third. Photo by Bruce Bellas/Bruce of Los Angeles

Steve Reeves by Bruce of Los Angeles

An unidentified bodybuilder by AMG

Muscle Beach acrobats

This is also by Athletic Model Guild, and bears a print code from the late 1940s.