Jim Stryker - one of the original Vintage Beefcakes
Jim Stryker was a blonde, blue-eyed, physique model who epitomized an era of muscle-headed beefcakes, free-spirited playboy jocks, and beach boys.
Jim Stryker was discovered by photographer Walter Kundzicz and was one of the very first “Beefcake” models.
Stryker was fresh out of high school when he met photographer Walter Kundzicz (a.k.a. Champion) in the summer of 1952. In search of new subjects for a growing portfolio of young male models, Champ traveled specifically to a rural swimming hole to meet the beautiful blonde youth. Upon arrival, he was greeted with the breathtaking sight of a fully naked 18-year-old in a tree, laughing uproariously as he urinated on a friend standing below.
Jim and Champ hit it off at once and the photographer proceeded with the first of 21 separate photo sessions with the boy. These photographs quickly turned him into the first (and still most enduringly popular) gay icons of all time.
Kundzicz’s first catalog was dedicated only to Jim Stryker, who turned out to be his best-selling model for over seven years. These works were captured on Fire Island and remain some of the most searched to this day.
Champion’s magazines of Stryker were every gay boy’s fantasy. In a time where sexuality was repressed in the mainstream, Fire Island came to represent a place of mystery and a gay haven for many. While much about Jim Stryker remains unknown, his blonde beauty against the liberated setting of Fire Island remains a snapshot in time of a refuge for young gay boys of the time.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 76 | April 28, 2024 2:52 AM
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From the looks of things, the guy hasn't got a thing on me.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | November 4, 2023 3:51 PM
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Never heard of him a beefcake Tab Hunter - so yes please.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | November 4, 2023 3:55 PM
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That's a real Hollywood loaf at R32
by Anonymous | reply 34 | November 4, 2023 4:04 PM
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Okay, the pics are great... what ever happened to Jim Stryker? I did a quick google search, don't find any wiki page, recent interview... is he alive? Gone full MAGA? Living quietly on a ranch somewhere in the west? Married well and is in Europe? Can be found serving coffee at a Starbucks?
by Anonymous | reply 44 | November 4, 2023 4:42 PM
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He had just turned 18 when the photographer discovered him in 1952, meaning he was born around 1934. If he’s still alive he would be 89 years old.
Nothing is known of him. After all of those photos were released in those underground beefcake mags or sold individually to people who would mail the photographer for them, he vanished. Stayed off the radar and map. No one knows what ever happened to him. He probably wanted it that way.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | November 4, 2023 5:00 PM
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[quote]Hollywood loaf
Spongy dick that is all show but not hard enough to do the job?
by Anonymous | reply 48 | November 4, 2023 5:43 PM
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Love the ass shot at R39. Would’ve gladly traded fucks with him.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | November 4, 2023 7:21 PM
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A Hollywood loaf is a cock that is fluffed enough to be larger, but to not too much, so it still appears mostly flaccid. Just enough to make it look bigger on camera, without coming across as a hard on.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | November 4, 2023 7:37 PM
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40 second video of Jim playing with a bow and arrow
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 51 | November 4, 2023 7:39 PM
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And rare video of him lounging on Fire Island beach in 1961, almost a decade after he took his first set of photos. My OP photo was taken the same day.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 52 | November 4, 2023 7:41 PM
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A Hollywood Loaf is half a hard on. Cause everyone was on so many drugs, that is all you can get up.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | November 4, 2023 9:31 PM
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You couldn't mail a picture of a FULL hard on through the U.S. Mails.....so the Hollywood loaf was the closet thing you could see.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | November 4, 2023 9:40 PM
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You couldn’t mail ANY nudity through the mail.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | November 4, 2023 9:46 PM
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Maybe he died of the AIDS.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | November 4, 2023 9:52 PM
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OP, how did you come across him? There’s very little on Google.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | November 4, 2023 9:53 PM
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In some pics he looks like a ginger below the waist. I’ve dated a couple of those.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | November 4, 2023 9:55 PM
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R57 I didn’t come across him recently. I’ve known of him for over 60 years at this point.
We had a neighbor who had beefcake rags in his basement that I found while being nosy and playing with his son. I don’t think I understood why he had them but I knew I liked what I saw and Jim was in one and I never forgot him.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | November 5, 2023 1:02 AM
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Would be nice to see more pics of his ass, like the one at R39.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | November 5, 2023 6:26 AM
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Jim Stryker was certainly a looker but not someone who would have aged well.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | April 23, 2024 1:21 PM
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He’s got a certain Allan Keyser/early-Bubba Higgins thing going on, particularly in the pictures where he has a flat top haircut.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | April 23, 2024 1:45 PM
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I always amazes me that they could find so many guys to pose.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | April 23, 2024 1:48 PM
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I suspect he got married off and this became a distant memory. I suppose he could still be out there somewhere.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | April 23, 2024 1:58 PM
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R47 those were the days when you could just disappear, I imagine that is much more difficult these days.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | April 23, 2024 2:04 PM
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It always becomes a distant memory with time. We don’t stay young forever. Life moves on.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | April 23, 2024 2:05 PM
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It appears he did a few photo shoots over a couple of years in the 1950s and then disappeared.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | April 23, 2024 3:09 PM
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Which is what most of the beefcake models did. Most of them were recruited and told they’re selling physical fitness to young men. Some of them were aspiring actors etc. like Steve Reeves etc. but most were just normal young men offered $ to pose and sell “fitness”.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | April 23, 2024 3:12 PM
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According to the article posted at R17 Jim allegedly did a bit of hustling:
"Future best-selling author Alan Helms arrived in New York in 1955 at the age of 18. He was, in the words of the Washington Post, “so gorgeous that jaws (and dentures) dropped when he entered a room,” and became “the most celebrated young man in all of gay New York.”
Alan originally worked as a model and actor, but he also hustled. A wealthy pharmaceutical heir enjoyed watching him have sex with other young men and paid Alan $100 a session. But one night, his intended sex partner turned out to be someone he’d often wanked over. Alan was so awestricken, the blood drained from his cock.
“I arrived one time to discover the trade of the night was Jim Stryker, the reigning sex god of Physique Pictorial, who inspired 90% of gay men’s masturbatory fantasies in those days. But I’m sorry to report that the experience was so unnerving I was unable to perform.”"
by Anonymous | reply 71 | April 28, 2024 2:02 AM
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R71 none of that last paragraph is in the article
by Anonymous | reply 72 | April 28, 2024 2:04 AM
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I’m here for the hairy thighs.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | April 28, 2024 2:11 AM
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I'll just assume you overlooked it R72
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 74 | April 28, 2024 2:17 AM
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Skip to 1:05:00 for a Hollywood Loaf
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 75 | April 28, 2024 2:36 AM
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Only one ass shot of Stryker. Did he consider it unmanly to show his ass? Was he straight?
by Anonymous | reply 76 | April 28, 2024 2:52 AM
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