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Alex Aronis |
A youthful Apollo of Greek descent, Alex was the bulwark of Hollywood High's football team. Later he graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy where he was a regular lineman on their football team. |
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Jessie Briggs |
Jessie Briggs has been working out with weights since he was thirteen. |
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John Burke |
One of the newest imports into "muscleland" California is this personable young bodybuilder - John Burke. John arrived with a mighty build and lots of ambition. He soon had a job as an instructor in one of our chrome and multi-mirrored bodybuilding palaces. This modern Sampson took Bruce to Griffith Park Observatory to show him some of the sights far above Hollywood. This husky lad is quite a sight himself; his athletic background in Illinois - center on his football team and all-around track star - started John on his way to developing his enviable body. After school, the U.S. Navy gave John a home away from home for three years as he covered the whole Atlantic area. |
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Manny Cabral From Hawaii |
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Richard Carrin |
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Cherokee |
Cherokee posed for other studios, especially Bob Mizer's AMG. Born Evret Lee Jackson in Des Moines Iowa on January 26, 1936, Cherokee was first photographed by Mizer in 1950 when he was 14, and continued well into his twenties. His AMG photo sessions are documented in a two-page spread in the July 1962 issue of Physique Pictorial where Mizer also describes the AMG movie Aztec Sacrifice in which Cherokee appeared. |
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Dennis Christensen |
Dennis posesses the rich development and classic grace of an aged Greek sculpting. Some of the most qualified people in the world of body building and physique artistry have hailed him as the "ideal form". |
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Frank Christy |
Frank Christy operates a gym in the wild-west country of Pendleton, Oregon. Frank has placed in a number of contests held in the Northwest. |
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Harry Domec |
Harry comes from the Cajon country of Louisiana, of French parents. He works on the waterfront and bodybuild to keep in tip-top shape for the arduous work. He won third place in the Mr. Gulf Coast contest. |
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Robert Fedell |
Robert Fedell grew up in a Rocky mountain state, riding the range and participating in rodeos on weekends. He was fullback on the football team, played forward on the basketball team, and excelled in wrestling for his school. He served in the U.S. Navy for three years, making three trips to the Orient and bodybuilding on board his ship during that time. |
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Ed Forsythe |
Ed got his first taste of Carnival days when he was a young drum major with his high school band visiting New Orleans for these popular holidays. Ed started body building shortly after moving to New Orleans by loading 60 lb. bags on the docks for a wholesale importer. Since then he has gone on to a much better job and has continued to work out regularly at a gym. To occupy his spare time Ed has raised all kinds of tropical birds and has managed to master the cha-cha-cha and to collect a huge record collection and a few thousand other hobbies that would wear out an ordinary person in a day. When Ed is not tied up with his job or hobbies, you can find him tanning on the beach at Lake Pontchartrain. Besides doing all the things that we have mentioned Ed still longs to travel all over the world. |
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Ron Fortner |
Raised in North Carolina, this 19'year'old adonis came to California at the early age of ten. In high school, Ron played halfback on the football team, center on the basketball squad and broadjumped and ran the hurdles in track. Quite an all-around athete. During the summer, Ron lifeguards at a municipal pool in Southern California. |
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Kurt Freeman |
Kurt Freeman was captain of his football squad, playing guard. He was also wrestling champion in the 175 lb. class, and put the shot with the track team. He enlisted in the US Navy. |
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James Galbraith |
At the age of 16 James was already married and working on a ranch. He traveled the Rodeo circuit and could hold his own when riding a Brahma bull. His sport was swimming. Now James is in the Navy and stationed on the west coast. He has been bodybuilding for two years and the results are here to see. |
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Tony Garonne |
Tony played football, wrestled, and performed in the field events of track while in high school. During a four year hitch in the U.S. Navy, he played halfback on his football team. Since his discharge, scuba diving and bodybuilding have been his interest. |
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John Glynn |
John Glynn was photgraphed shortly after his discharge from the U.S. Marine Corps. He has managed several of the gyms in Southern California. |
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Bobby Hansen |
Loves to bodysurf at the beach. |
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Gordon Hanson 6'1", 185 lbs | Gordon spent several years touring with the National company of the stage hit, "South Pacific". He also appeared in the play "The Little Hut" alongside movie and TV star Marsha Hunt. |
| Jack Harte | An ex-Navy boxer. |
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Frank Iacono 5'8", 170 lbs, 21 years old |
Of Italian Croatian descent, Frank was raised in a seacoast village where many of the men went to the sea to fish. For sports, he played football and baseball. |
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Ralph Kleiner |
Ralph Kleiner was born in Austria where his sport in school was soccer. Since living in Chicago, Ralph bodybuilds and swims in the summer. Ralph has won the titles of Jr. Mr. Illinois and Mr. Mid States. |
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Dick Knight |
The first things he did when he got to Hollywood were to find a good gym and enroll in a drama workshop. Combining bodybuilding and acting, Dick got a couple of bit parts in two movies as well as a good juvenile part in a local theatre. When he finds time to relax, he likes to read, play a little piano and listen to records. |
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Bill Lamm |
Don't let that last name fool you - Ram would be more like it. At 25, he's a rugged 5'10" and 170 lbs. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Bill thrived under the Southern sun and developed quickly. He was a top performer in high school track, running the 100 and 200 and throwing the javelin. He is just now out of service - having been in the Paratroopers for a year and in the Air Force for two. While in the Air Force, Bill served in special services as a life guard at the base swimming pool, where the gals stationed at the base must have tried drowning on purpose. A few years ago handsome Bill won the physique title of Mr. New Mexico. An award well-deserved, since the young man is developed in such perfect proportions - just look at those shoulders, biceps, calves, and lats for examples. And with a face of such strong determination, how could he miss? To keep his muscular form, Bill has worked out in a gym for a number of years and even spends some of his time as a gym instructor. With his chiseled physique, he would be a great inspiration to the up-and-coming body builder. Bill's favorite pastime is sculpturing and he's pretty good at it too. As a matter of fact, sculpturing is Bill's major at Southwestern university where he's in the junior class. Bill now lives in Albuquerque. His home is a quaint adobe dwelling in the city's picturesque "Old Town" section, built in the days of the Spaniards. It is here Bill does much of his sculpturing and it occurs to us he himself would be an ideal model to work from. |
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Chuck Lawrence |
In High School, Chuck Lawrence's sports were wrestling, football, and track. For recreation he likes to hunt small game in the bayou country. |
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Dusty Leigh |
A happy young man with an appealing smile, Dusty Leigh attends an old Southern university as a business administration major. Dusty claims quite an ancestral heritage - or should we say mixture. He's of French, Russian, Scotch, German and Spanish descent. He keeps in trim swimming and horseback riding. He likes to read, play records on his hi-fi set and enjoys companionship with his wire-haired terrier. |
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Joe Leitel |
Having gotten married and siring a beautiful baby daughter hasn't ruined Joe's
figure in the least. Joe is less active in dramatics than he was in the past,
though he still has his heart set on an acting career. Currently, he is a
truck driver. His current hobby is raising homing pigeons. When out on the
road he may turn one loose to let Carol know he is coming home for dinner -
really saves on phone bills! Joe can now military-press 180, but he can bench-press 300 lbs. Works out at Amer. Health Studios three times a week. He appeared in several AMG movies. |
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Lynn Lyman |
Placed a close second in the Mr. America 1958 contest. |
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Ford McLaine |
Ford McLaine is one of the more promising young Hollywood hopefuls brought to Bruce for some photographs. Ford came to Hollywood from New York after having been in "Boy Friend" and "Out of this World". He has continued studying and working for a dramatic career in the movie. When Ford arrived in California he fell in love with the beach and has made a charming beach cottage his permanent headquarters for relaxation and fun. His current companion in this endeavor is his German Dachshund, "Butch". |
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Gene Meyer |
Winner of the Mr. Los Angeles contest. |
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Dale Newberger |
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Ron O'Brien |
By the tender age of 22, Ron O'Brien had quite a career for himself. Ron started off by painting a mural in the Governor's mansion in Santa Fe, New Mexico. From there he landed parts in the New York production of "Kismet" and later, "Out of this World". From there he got parts in "The West Point Story" and the "Wendy Barrie" television shows. Ron has graced the covers of many well-known fashion publications. His earlier hobby was horseback riding but Ron seems to have taken to the bicycle and loves to roam the Hollywood Hills. |
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Hugh Pendleton |
Hugh has been interested in bodybuilding since he was on the ninth grade. At Hollywood High, he played blocking back on the football squad and performed the rope climb on the gymnastic team. He spent two years stationed with the USAF Air Police at Casa Blanca in Africa. Returning from the service, he met and married Shirley Berney. |
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Perry Peters |
A native Easterner who came west for work and school, Perry attended a southwestern university and spent his summers working as a ranch hand. |
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Glen Porter |
At Louisiana State, Glen was first-string fullback and was on the swimming and diving teams. Afterwards, he joined the U.S. Army where he gave exhibitions of fancy diving. |
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Bill Robb |
While Bruce was making one of his many cross-country hops, he discovered Bill Robb stationed with the U.S. Army in Albuquerque. Bill tells us that he limited his athletic talents to high school track where he specialized in the cross country run. Seems inevitable thathe and Bruce should eventually get together. |
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Del Roberts |
A Navy man, Del Roberts spent much of his tour of duty in the Caribbean. Crowned Mr. Washington, D.C. in 1960, his hobbies are wood work and metal craft. |
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Richard Saley |
Richard Saley is a young man of unlimited drive and ambition. He has been a Boy Scout Leader, a Water Safety Instructor, boxed, participated in Gymnastics, continued bodybuilding, and worked at a lead smelter, all while working toward a degree in psychology at a major university in the Rocky Mountain states. |
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Tom Sansone |
Winner, Mr. America 1958 |
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Mike Sill |
Mike Sill is another specimen of physical perfection to emerge from the State of Utah. Mike won the Mr. Utah, Jr. title in 1955 and the Mr. Utah title in 1956. Mike attends the University of Utah where he competes on the swimming team. While in high school he performed on the track team, throwing the javelin. Steve Reeves has been his idol since his beginning days of bodybuilding. Because of this interest he has sculpted a number of busts of Reeves as well as some interesting female figures. Mike is very fortunate to have a cool glen behind the family home which becomes an ideal place to work and relax during the hot Utah summers. Mike has a cottage in the glen which makes excellent sleeping quarters. A mountain brook, which runs thru the glen, is very inviting for a splash. |
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Arland Schubert |
Arland Schubert was photographed while he was in the U.S. Air Force. |
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Eugene Soinski |
In school, Eugene was captain of the swimming team and for two years was the singles tennis champion. We wonder when he found time to study as he also lettered in football, baseball, and basketball. Now living on the west coast, his sports are surfing and bowling. Stamp collecting is his hobby. |
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Gary Tempest |
Gary played fullback on his high school football team. |
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John Tristran |
Tristran posed often for other studios, especially Bob Mizer's AMG and appeared regularly in Physique Pictorial throughout the late 1950s and early '60s, where he was featured on the MARCH 1959 cover. He also starred in the AMG physique film titled "Pose Please". In the June 1960 issue of Physique Pictorial Mizer described Tristran as follows: JOHN TRISTRAM 25, 5'7 168 lbs., born Ripan Yorkshire England where he rode over the countryside on his bicycle building up his calves which are 16 inches. He was also active in rowing and worked on a farm. But he didn't take bodybuilding seriously until he moved to New York City. Many of his early pictures (by Lon and others) were released under the name of John Trenton. |
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Ron Unger |
Ron has won much acclaim for his physique. At 22, he listed nine titles for Bruce, starting with Mr. Moffitt Field and Mr. 12th Naval District while spending four years with the U.S. Marines. His major titles are Mr. Texas, Mr. Sooner, and Mr. Southwestern U.S.A.. While in service Ron was a diver and swimmer on the AAU Navy Team. |
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Armando Vega |
Every serious athlete works hard, trains rigidly, and of course, dreams of reaching for an Olympic berth. Such a combination of work, training, and talent paid off for Armando Vega when he was chosen a member of the U.S. Olympic gymnastic team. Bruce met Armando while he was training with his team for the games in Australia. His training really started when he was going to high school in Los Angeles. Tailback on the football team, guard on his basketball team, pole vaulting, and running the relay were just a part of his "all-around" training for his true talent , gymnastics. Born in a small New Mexico town, Armando has risen to one of the most enviable positions in the athletic world today. Along with his athletic schedule, he still has some time to spend enjoying his sports car and just relaxing at home. He will soon be going back to an Eastern college for his second year of training as a teacher. |
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Robert Wardell |
Robert Wardell has the Brown Belt in Judo. His relaxations are Pro Football and Horse Racing. Robert is a crack shot with a pistol. He is employed as a telephone lineman. Anyone having trouble with their phone? |
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Mel Waskey |
Mel played fullback on the football team in high school. The next four years were spent in the U.S. Marines and he was stationed in various parts of Western Europe. Since his discharge, Mel has been attending college and his sport? - why football of course. He won the title of Mr. Maryland in Baltimore in 1960. |
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Bill Watts |
This rugged lad comes from the U.S. Marines. His favorite sport is football, his position being guard. |
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Robert Weitnecht |
An enthusiastic gymnast and beachgoer. |
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Joe Williams |
Joe worked out at the Swim-'N-Gym health club in Southern California. He played football in high school, and practiced with the Los Angeles Rams football team in 1956. Joe was Michigan born but his family later moved to California. Aside from body building, Joe rates sports cars as his second love. |