It's very unusual for men in Italy to be circumcised, which has gotten our Italian correspondent Cris some attention in changing rooms and showers at the gym, he says. Well wouldn't you give him a second glance if you saw him there?

 

Here's a selection of photos of Doug Madison by Dave Martin, kindly sent along by Brian E. It starts with the third version of the same photo to appear recently on this blog - a much better black and white copy that the first one I found. As mentioned before this fine specimen was a football player at UCLA Berkeley at the time Martin talked him out of his clothes.

 

Australian Military Men wash each other in Vietnam in 1969

 

Yale man.

 

Ivy League Nude Posture Study photo. Found on eBay. More info below.

 

Ivy League "Posture Study" photos.

The Ivy League nude posture photos were taken in the 1940s through the 1970s of all incoming freshmen at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, UPenn (which are members of the Ivy League) and Seven Sisters colleges (as well as Swarthmore), ostensibly to gauge the rate and severity of rickets, scoliosis, and lordosis in the population. The photos are simple black-and-white images of each individual standing upright from front, back and side perspectives. Harvard previously had its own such program from the 1880s to the 1940s. The larger project was run by William Herbert Sheldon and Earnest Albert Hooton, who may have been using the data to support their theory on body types and social hierarchy. What remained of the images were transferred to the Smithsonian, and most were destroyed between 1995 and 2001. However, starting in 2020, hundreds of photos of male freshman from Yale have gone up for sale individually on eBay, ensuring that many remain in private collections.

 

Ivy League College "Posture Study" photo taken in the Payne Whitney Gymnasium at Yale, October 1953. These photos are not mine; they pop up from time to time on eBay.

 

Ivy League College "Posture Study" photo taken in the Payne Whitney Gymnasium at Yale, October 1953.

 

Ed Fury, aka Edmund Rupert Holovchik, who passed away February 24th of this year at the age of 94. Top photo by Bruce of LA/ Kensington Road, the bottom from AMG.

 

Longtime blog contributor Philip Anderson sends us this enhanced and colorized version of Dave Martin's photo of athlete Doug Madison posted here recently. Thanks, Phil!

 

Steve Wengryn by Al Urban, 1950's.

 

Bob Penn by Richard Fontaine.

 

Sharing the shower in the 1960's.

 

Jim Elliot was an athlete at the University of California Berkeley when he posed for Dave Martin in 1968.

 

Jack Newgate by Pat Milo.

 

The ID on these is Bobby Joe Kiser by Pat Milo.

 

Doug Madison was a football player at the University of California Berkeley when he posed for Dave Martin in the Oakland Hills in 1953. I wish this image wasn't so overexposed.

 

Chuck Eisenmann (1918-2010,) photographed with his dog London while manager of The Kearny Irishmen in 1955. London often entertained the crowd with tricks taught by Chuck. Photos by Loomis Dean for Life Magazine. Eisenman went on to a long career training London and other stand-in German Shepherds for movie and TV roles, and releasing books and an LP record on dog training. These photos are from the Life Magazine archives and the ones including Chuck showering naked with the dog presumably were not printed. Link to more info below.

http://tomhawthorn.blogspot.com/2010/12/chuck-eisenmann-trainer-of-littlest.html

 

Bert Bauman by Lyle Frisby, taken in Los Angeles in 1957 according to the online seller.

 

Al Urban duo.

 

Alan Tatum.

 

 

Bob Delmonteque (r) with "Moose" by Douglas of Detroit.

 

Boat bottoms.

 

Save water- share a shower with a friend (or three)

 

"Chaz" has that sixties style bathing suit tan.

 

Wet stairs to the ocean.

 

Military men get in some relaxation.