Muscle Beach and Beach Muscle
Muscle Beach, Santa Monica, California, was the birthplace of the physical fitness movement in the U.S. in 1934 when the Works Progress Administration installed exercise equipment next to the Santa Monica Pier. Famous bodybuilders like Joe Gold (who started the Gold's Gym chain) and Jack LaLanne worked out there. Above, Jack LaLanne on Muscle Beach. He's not nude because it wasn't a nude beach.
Jack LaLanne was photographed nude (above, at right, with fellow bodybuilder Jack Thomas at left) by physique photographer Russ Warner, but not on the beach.
But bodybuilders have always been attracted to nude beaches, because they like to show off their bodies, like the guy above at Marshall Beach, the nude north end of San Francisco's Baker Beach.
Or Von Legend on a Hawaiian beach.
Or this guy showing off his physique at the edge of the water.
Or Daxx Carter (left) and Jessie James (right).
The previous photo was taken from a video called Muscle Beach. In this clip we see Daxx Carter and Jessie James posing on the beach, shadow boxing, and finally running off down the beach. They're apparently running off to a motel room, because Muscle Beach is a gay porn video, and all that posing on the beach is just the prelude to the real action in the bedroom. But if you want to see that, you'll have to look for the video yourself (it's available online).
5 comments:
I remember the actual beach - - but not the film. LOL.
Nude beaches are wonderful.
Jack LaLanne claimed ne never posed nude.. but he did, and when he went into television in California in the 1950s, he bought back all the nude negatives... except from Russ Warner, who wouldn't sell...
Love the front and back
It was said Warner blackmailed LaLanne with the photos so he could be LaLanne’s business partner. (Warner ended up being the announcer on LaLanne’s tv show and business manager)
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