I LUST After Men From Long Ago

This thread is useless without pictures.

OP, do you mean the man at around 40 seconds in?

Good lord. While I don't think that was worth the keystrokes to search on YouTube.... knock yourself out. Whatever makes you happy.

R2-, NOT that version .The version from 1947. Miracle On 34th Street- Reindeer Mistake. That is the title of the video on youtube.

The worlds fair video is titled- To The Fair! 1964 Worlds Fair In New York City 2:30 into the video , two HANDSOME guys.

This video is on youtube also.

OP, I can relate. Men were encouraged in good grooming habits and a more elevated sense of personal presentation than often seen today, even with men on the lower end of the economic curve. Achieving maturity as quickly as possible, rather than perpetuating adolescence, was also supported. These qualities build attraction for me from the inside out, even if a man doesn’t fit a stereotypical ideal of beauty.

OP, I know what you mean. Every day I watch "Adam-12" on MeTV and want to do all kinds of naughty things to Martin Milner, who I thought was so hot then.

R6-Me too. I find him MUCH more attractive than Kent McCord. Martin Milner was SO good looking in Valley Of The Dolls (1967).

I'm 66 and still lust after guys from high school.

I'm lusting after 20 year old Warren Beatty (looking rather doughy in unflattering shorts) in "Suspicion' in 1957 with David Wayne.

Men used to be leaner then.

Or maybe the bowtie?)

I LUST after Bill Holden ca. 1950. He he was good looking , fit and had a HAIRY chest and that RASPY voice.

R10- You watched the short video of 34th street? I definitely like my men SLIM and neat.

[quote] a man is setting up the Reindeer display for Christmas. The man is SO good looking. I looked him up. He's be about 103 years old now,

Link please.

[quote]This thread is useless without pictures.

OP's fantasy is useless without a time machine.

Bowtie guy

R15- Thank you. That is the video.

The two HANDSOME guys in the Worlds Fair video look like Ivy Leaguers.. Has anyone watched that video? Do you agree with me on their handsomeness - especially the blond guy.

Yes, indeed. The bowtie guy is CUTE. If I were back in 1947 ( no I'm not that old ,1947 is WAY before I was born) I would take him out on a date to the AUTOMAT- I guess I'm a cheap date.

^ This post if from me the OP.

These dudes at 2:27?

Man, the 60s were fucking weird.

David Farrar in Black Narcissus.

R20- Yes. Those are the two handsome guys I was referring to. It's sexist the way they were chasing after those two EXCESSIVELY feminine women in the park.

My post R22

The bowtie guy is definitely hot af.

MARY @ OP.

Dear OP, I think a psychologist would suggest we have have Daddy issues.

We deliberately yearn for the unobtainable as a way of unsatisfying an unobtainable goal.

I'm sure there are plenty of men who available in the here and now who may be a little more obtainable.

With Covid no one is attainable for me. I have not had sex in 11 months.

When I was a young boy in the 1970's I would watch old black and white episodes of LASSIE. I had a MAJOR crush on the cute blond boy Timmy, but even then I knew he was unattainable because that little boy was gone and he was all grown up.

There is a movie on Amazon called 1992. It's set then but it was made recently. The older guy 27ish-is JUST my type. Slim and good looking and kind of ethnic. Has anyone seen this short (20mins) film?

1992

you don't have to deal with their tatoos for starters

R30-True

I guess in 1992 tattoos were not en vogue.

The watchmen doesn't look 1992 he looks more like 1982.

It seems that every other guy in his 30s/40s today looks and acts like Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons (the Scuzzball look.) I had to think of that scene from”Sunset Boulevard” where Norma Desmond accosts Joe Gillis for “always wearing that sports jacket”. By today’s he looks like he’s attending a wedding.

^ “today’s standards”

Is there any particular reason OP doesn't post the links to Youtube that he gives keywords etc. for?

He had a really nice body too R6. He was shirtless in some movie and I was so surprised because he always seemed (Adam-12) kind of dweeby to me.

R34- It's because I don't know how to.

Another blast from the past. I'm watching a video on youtube of John Sebastian and The Lovin Spoonful singing Do You Believe In Magic at a live performance in 1965. He was a good looking guy back then.

Sir Roger Casement is my favorite historical daddy. He might have been family but the record is murky.

OP You copy the link then paste it into the box labeled "web site link."

I lust after men from the 18th and 19th Centuries and would love to know what life then was like for a gay man.

[quote]I lust after men from the 18th and 19th Centuries and would love to know what life then was like for a gay man.

I would imagine that gay guys would have had a difficulty time dealing with all of the hygienically challenged men back then.

^^ a difficult time ^^

OP/R36 you can link to the videos by pasting the url into the link bar.

Meet your dream man, OP.

Take me back to the era of men wearing top hats, vests, and suspenders. Yeah, baby

OP, that guy in the bow tie fixing the reindeer was actor Robert Gist. He was a well known character actor. Miracle On 34th Street was his screen debut in 1947.

Here's a pic of him. More interesting, do you recognize his wife? It's none other than DL fave Agnes Moorehead!

Someone posted this pic of their old family member, I think from Idaho or somewhere. I wouldn't mind at all sharing a cabin with him, just the two of us in the wild. I mean, if he did all the work and all I had to do was provide sexual services.

R46- If he was married to Agnes Moorehead that makes it more likely (in my opinion) the he was GAY.

^ is my post

I agree with Polly Bergen. This British male model from 1959 was "beautiful."

The sailor at 2:15 -- terrible capture, so watch it when it's on TCM. He's in one other scene and he's just marvelous to look at.

Okay, please don't laugh, but I find a lot of the guest stars on the old "Perry Mason" series very attractive. So naturally masculine. I love the strong, silent type like the detective who replaced ailing Lt. Tragg.

Yes, R50, that model guy is hot.

I ashamed to talk of the man after whom I lusted long ago.

I was naive, and young and foolish.

Ronnie Burns, George and Gracie's kid.

[quote]I ashamed to talk of the man after whom I lusted long ago.

You're aware this is an anonymous message board, right?

I have lusted after young Marlon Brando, always wondered what sex would have been like with Oscar Wilde, and fell in love with young, slender Freddie Mercury's lips and Persian beauty. Yes, men in the past were hot and natural and flawed and that was sexy.

My tastes were set in stone in the 1970's when all the men on tv had SLIM, NATURAL bodies. No muscles, tattoos, piercings, rings etc.

Randolph Mantooth was my slim DREAMBOAT in the 1970's and the main reason I watched the show.

Ronnie Burns, Aussie pop star

[quote] I LUST After Men From Long Ago

Just how long ago are you talking, OP? Does this fellow tickle your fancy?

It could be worse, OP. At least you’re not lusting after an unconventionally attractive man from the past like I am.

Their breath most probably stunk, if you will take into account less advanced hygienic practices plus 80% of the population being smokers back then

Been woefully lusting after Montgomery Clift for four years now. Probably the longest on-going lusful desire I ever had for a man of the past.

Oh, that's nothing, r63. I've been lusting after Monty since the early '90s.

I've been lusting after Gregory Peck ca. 1948 for YEARS.

He was such a HANSDOME dreamboat back then. I don't care if he was a good actor or not.

I find Peck's grandson Ethan quite lustworthy.

This soldier from the American Civil War, he is so handsome and has such attitude with that hand on his hip. All I have been able to find out about him is that he was a member of Brigadier General Gustavus A. DeRussy Staff on Steps of Arlington House, Arlington, Virginia May 1864

This is a clearer picture of him, so handsome.

Yes in the 90s in communal showers it was very very rare to see men with large tattoos if any at all. Today if they still had them it would be like walking into a Sunday comics wind storm.

There is a photo of three Confederate soldiers bathing naked in a river while a fourth dressed soldier on the show looks on. One or two of the soldiers are REALLY hot.

I know this is a thread for the dudes, but tattoos on women really disgust me.

R71- I'm a gay male and I think tattoos on men are UGLY.

Do you like shaved pubic hair on a woman?

[quote]Do you like shaved pubic hair on a woman?

I'm not R71, but, as a gay man, this is not an issue I care about one way or another.

I am R71--I'm fine with whatever as long as there has been at least some trimming. But, honestly, there are very few lesbians (in my experience) who don't take care of their hygiene or will go on a date with a full bush. (My one experience with this was in high school, when my high school girlfriend absolutely did nothing to make herself more attractive--in sundry ways. That was the last time I ever dated someone I wasn't attracted to physically: it's better to be single then be stuck with someone gross.)