Here I am above in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania in 1963 at the age of 9 demonstrating bodybuilding’s side chest pose. Although it might have been the side relaxed pose — or more likely I was simply adjusting my bathing suit.
Aquí estoy arriba en las montañas Pocono de Pennsylvania en 1963 a la edad de 9 años, lo que demuestra la postura lateral del culturismo. Aunque podría haber sido el pose lateral relajado, o más probablamente simplemente estaba ajustando mi bañador.
Two years earlier, Oyster Bay, Long Island. Before I bulked up.
Dos años ántes, en Oyster Bay, Long Island. Antes de que me abultara. (Oyster Bay, Long Island significa Bahia de Ostras, en Isla Grande.)
And in 1969, the back relaxed pose. Back in Pennsylvania,
at Lancaster Host Resort.
Y en 1969, la espalda relajada posa.
De vuelta en Pennsylvania,
en Lancaster Host Resort.
Look at you, Mr. Schwarzenegger!
Bob:
It’s uncanny isn’t it?!? My doppelgänger!
last pix – sexy!
anne marie:
I was too sexy for my Hawaiian surfer jams!
Good genetics, I looked like a pair by 12.
David:
I’m grateful now, but I was miserable as a kid. All I ever heard was that I was too skinny. I had an aunt who we saw, unfortunately, every week. And, every week, she would talk incessantly about how skinny and unhealthy I was and that my parents should send me to her house to fatten me up, thereby insulting me and my mother (her sister) at the same time.
You da man, Mitchell Block!
Jim:
Ha! Just a bit of beefcake.
Where you were in the poconos is probably now the gay nude campground. I think there is a statue their in your honor.
Mistress Maddie:
And you know it’s a statue of me because, if you look at it from the side, you don’t see it!
Oh the cuteness of youth! Thanks for sharing those photos.
sillygirl:
Years back i was mortified by these photos. Now I find them entertaining… and even cute.
You were sneaking peaks at those Charles Atlas ads in the back of the Superman comics weren’t you?
Willym:
Those ads never really did much for me. I was already so buff!
You were (still are) so totally adorable that I can’t think of anything snarky to say 🙂 I have to give props to Bob for being able to spell Ahnold’ s last name. Ooh, just thought of something. That first picture? It looks like you were pulling the leg down on your swim suit. If you had left it alone, you would’ve been years ahead of that one leg shorter than the other trend in shorts!
Deedles:
You are SO kind to me. And, yes, in that first photo I was clearly pulling the leg down. Had I only known!
I never had much “confidence” back during those days of my youth. Only a few pictures of me in swim-trunks exist.
Adam:
Not many of me either.
Pre-speedo hibiscus print.
Wilma:
No room for the hibiscus on my Speedo.
Nothing better than old photos!! I could look at pictures for days.
hollihd:
We have so many and I’m regularly going through them. Kind of obsessed right now for some reason.
“before I bulked up” LOL
Debra:
I don’t know what’s so funny. I was serious. You mean you can’t see the difference?!? I’m unrecognizable in that photo 2 years later.
Good to see you being active…….I know you are now, right!?!
Ron:
Well, I’m at lest not bone idle.
Have not changed a bit.
Laurent:
I KNOW! Except for the hair, there is absolutely no difference.
I’m sure nobody kicked sand in YOUR face!
Walt the Fourth:
Well, at least not on the lawn or at the pool. (But, no, thankfully no one ever DID kick sand in my face.)
You got a nice tan in that last photo. I was a skinny kid, too.
Kirk:
I spent most of my life with a “nice” tan. Now, my skin only looks good if it’s tan. Otherwise, you see all the damage that was done!