Beautiful Vintage Men

What country is this even from?

Wow, VERY handsome men indeed. OP pix is a knockout. Yes, please.

R5, that looks like a still from Pasolini's Salò.

DL is slipping. How could this not be the first photo?

Daaamn at R7

Beautiful. Thank you for starting this thread OP.

They all get a Goddamn from me.

r5 Clearly they're from HUNG-ary.

There's an active thread with EXACTLY the same subject, OP.

OP, your beautiful photo has me fantasizing about a gay remake of the movie "Somewhere in Time."

R5 Heaven. That must be Heaven.

R24 That and other "vintage hotties and beefcake" threads have been delightful. But there's a standard and elegance to this thread. I guess it's just mining Pinterest... whatever, keep them coming please.

R17 resembles DL Fave Ben Barnes.

R17 + Jar Jar Binks =

r14 is that Jamie, from Sean Cody, great grandfather?

going way back, bitches

This guy from the 1840s looks like he could be Jared Leto's greatx4 grandfather

R1 pic looks very handsome.

Guy at R1 is a stunner. Who was he?

This went viral a couple of years ago when a woman posted it to her facebook. It was her grandfather taken during WWII

R2 = Barry Glick

Young FDR...

His eyes must have been mesmerizing

Found images of ancestors and I felt so dirty for finding them so attractive

That vintage underwear was something

I can only imagine how attractive some of these men would be without the ridiculous facial hair.

I always think the same thing when I see women my grandmother's age who have those unattractive Golden Girls style hairdos. It seems like they got those by 40 or 50 and kept them until their death. You look at someone like Jane Fonda who's managed to look stylish without making a complete foot of herself and you have to wonder what some of them could have looked like if they didn't decide to prematurely age themselves.

Steve Reeves (#19), 1947.

Just about every man in Leni Riefenstahl's OLYMPIA (38). Four hours of munchable vintage men. (Hitler excepted).

The ultimate vintage man. Robert Cornelius (1809-1893) - the world's oldest selfie (1839).

Not sure if this one is truly vintage.

As soon as the men have perfectly symmetrical faces, they are very handsome and also timeless looking. The beauties above looks contemporary.

R37 is FDR Jr. The president's son.

R24 Because OP will do ANYTHING for attention and dopamine hits. Copycat.

I wish I could travel back in time to when the US was 99.9% white

That time never existed. Are you being sarcastic?

I love the name above for collecting this stuff: "homobilia". Very clever.

Would these be considered homobilia?

Attractive brothers

I wonder what the story was here. The one on the left was getting hard...

I doubt there's much story, r55. That appears to be early gay soft-core porn.

The one on the right resembles Matthew Broderick, r54.

@r48, you are correct. Here is a young FDR SENIOR...

Try again, that is also his son.

Franklin was pleasant looking, not sexy like his son. This is FDR

This thread is terrific.

This is FDR.

I made an album of some old vintage men I saved from Tumblr - about 40 pics.

How many people do you think are actually posting pics in this thread? One? Two perhaps?

My goodness, r64, such buttocks!

What about ME!

Scotty Bowers claimed to enjoy fellating Walter Pidgeon for pocket money; is that sufficiently Tannhauser-esque?

Jerking off to oil portraits of Charles II of Spain is no way to go through life, unless you can monetize it.

I always thought a young Stalin was hot, with all that black hair, here at 23.

@r59, Well shucks, here you go...

FDR Senior had his moments

It’s amazing how some of these guys could pass for modern man. They have the same eyes, nose, mouth. You could say these are TikTokers who took black and white pictures at the fair and I would believe it.

All these beautiful men had great legs.

More legs!

They were careful not to skip leg day, r89.

Lots of hot 1980s guys

Lots of great looking guys, but the guy in the OP is still the best in this thread so far. Stunning.

We need a gay "Somewhere in Time," where our hapless hero becomes enamoured of a portrait of a turn-of-the-century hunk and travels back in time to meet and woo him.

From the golden age of beefcake modeling, here's the beautiful Bob Kolinski. If he's still alive, he would be in his 80s, at least.

Nikola Tesla

Ran into quite a few of this man, not too long ago.

Young Sigmund Freud

Young Hemingway

R97 I love that Bill David was standing there on that Nice balcony with his cock half out!

@r93, "Lots of great looking guys, but the guy in the OP is still the best in this thread so far. Stunning. "

I agree. I just keep wondering if good-looking men were as self-aware of their looks back before media gave them something to compare themselves to. I mean if you lived in a small town before there was movies would you know you were good looking when you only had the few peers in your town for comparison?

R2, I am SO with you on Buster Crabbe. I have only recently rediscovered his breathtaking beauty. Absolutely amazing.

So hot I have a month named after me!

There's a lot to be said for black and white film, lighting, angles, and air brushing.

Some of these men in HD color video might shatter your illusions.

^^ They're probably better looking in real life. Old time photography was not very flattering

I wonder who he was.

Michel Alexandrovitch Romanov, 1904, in B&W

Michel Alexandrovitch Romanov, 1904, colorized

John Kelly Jr

Sean Connery, #24

Jail photo of Lewis Powell, a conspirator in the Lincoln assassination, 1865, B&W

Jail photo of Lewis Powell, a conspirator in the Lincoln assassination, 186

Wow r110. Fine as fuck.

Jail photo of Lewis Powell, a conspirator in the Lincoln assassination, 1865, colorized, different angle

Lewis Powell

Lewis Powell was stunning R112 R114 R115...would be hot today

R115 When you seem them in color they seem contemporary.

Student named Johnson - Ohio University 1927.

Orion H. Eichelberger (!) I know he's not pretty, but for some reason I find him kind of striking.

Did Sean Connery ever "date" any rich old men in his bodybuilding days?

There's an app that will colorize old photos. Here's R110. This might make a good separate thread.

R66 colorized

No beautiful vintage men of color?

OP's man, colorized.

There are some cute vintage couples on YouTube.

Looks like DL favorite Matt Bomer.

There is a fun Facebook page called Vintage Workingman Beefcake if you're turned on by these photos. Check it out. But warning: no movie stars, professional models or celebrities and no photos after 1980.

I'd lick the stank outta his sleeve!

So handsome and so very dead.

Very contemporary R134. Nice hands. I'm a hands man from way back. Some really great looking men here. Good thread.

Is R134's guy in a knitting and cushion shop? Not sure that's genuine vintage. Good looker tho.

Manly cowboys on the range don't have use for a razor or a blade. They want those pubes pinned by the saddle.

Hermann Rorschach can get it

Unfortunately beauty peaked when one was younger. It was just temporary.

So many beautiful men! OP's wins. I guess I'm a big Mary! these made me tear up thinking most of them are dead. Then again, I have the same reaction to antique auctions, and worse for estate sales, wondering about the previous owners. Did they love those things? Where did they buy them and what were they thinking when they did. Why didn't anyone want their things? I need to stop.

MARY !!!!!

That's so sweet, R140. You are truly a beautiful soul.

I get the same way when I think of Jeffrey Hunter, his immense beauty, and his tragic life.

^ Oops.

Love the pics, hate pinterest

R137

Don Murray.

Yeah Pinterest stinks.

Some old time actors posed for "Physique" magazines

The guy at R145 is uncut. Scream; clutch pearls. In fact most of the guys pictured here were intact, Marys.

This thread is not complete without Shorpy's diner hottie from 1943.

I pick the one on the left for you R149.

Another of hot, hot, hot Don Murray

Just beautiful

Beautiful Russian Poet, Sergei Yesenin (1895 - 1925)

Actor George O'Brien, during his years in silent film, although he had a career into the talkies and television

Danny Kaye - there was a whole thread on him

Early colour pic here

Ed Fury

John Bromfield

Life's a beach

Some gorgeous armed forces

young Winston Churchill, ca. 1895

Harry Houdini, 1902

Tyrone Power, 1937

gym buddies, Randolph Scott & Gary Cooper, be 1935

Just two straight dudebros working out. No homo!

Churchill was always homely

Two birthdays boys and their hag, 1932

A fit Errol Flynn (with Olivia de Havilland), 1935

Cary has gayface at r177

Let's try that again:

Way back when....

Handsome guy

Handsome

Love this one

Beautiful bubble-butted Robert Conrad

It's a lot more fun to see unknown, "regular," guys here than Hollywood stars (although Montgomery Clift was the most handsome one ever when he was in his prime).

OP's pic still wins.

Nice muscles - 1913.

Engine trouble on the escape craft.

^^ Is Lord Lucan still alive? He was a hotty before he killed the nanny and ran off

They want you as a new recruit

R190 he was declared dead on 3 February 2016.

1950s college men:

I'll play center.

This was one of Roy Dean's favorite models. Can anyone identify him?

R193 Ha, college men on the "Dance Committee".... ya think maybe cookies were served? Why are they all men? An all male college, or...?

The guy standing on the left need me in him...deeply.

@r192, "[R190] he was declared dead on 3 February 2016. "

Yes, but is he dead dead or just declared dead or somewhere eating donuts with Elvis?

Nobody knows...

Bonnie Scotland

The start of a beautiful friendship?

Boston College football players from 1939.

Goodness, r200, why in the world did they push the twin beds together?

I'll take the hairy-chested boy on the left.

Coach with the boys

His inspiration

Fit

@r203, is that Rep. Gym Jordan?

I often do wonder if Gym J sampled the singlet-wrapped wares.

^^ Oh, hell, you know he did

His piercings seem not very vintage, r206.

LOL. Those aren't piercings; they're splotches on the original photo. I'm assuming the owner creamed over them at some point.

R41="I love Bel Ami and Helix Studios and real hot hot men make my eyes burn"

Singer Debbie Gibson's grandfather

The guy in the OP is not only handsome, he has one of the most symmetrical faces I've ever seen. Astonishing really.

Leopold III, Crown Prince of Belgium

Leopold III, Crown Prince of Belgium

R217

Not a perfect edit, but here's R200 to give you an idea

R214, to think that we now have the science/technology to exhume and clone him. I'd buy two.

It's actually depressing. We are all young and beautiful, then we get old and die. Sigh.

I agree with the others, the first guy is stunning. I really wish we knew more about him

Those lashes

Drinking Buddies c. 1955

OP's stunner looks like he could have been a younger and prettier brother of Michael Fassbender's.

I think OP's stunner was of Italian descent.

He looks like Matt Bomer to me

I think the first guy is a better version of young Warren Beatty...

Actor Sydney Barraclough (who was one of Oscar Wilde's honeys)

Actor C.M Hallard (who was gay)

I always find the best-looking men have a perfectly straight eyebrow line - just like OP's guy.

R228, he's better looking than Matt Bomer.

I'm not convinced the OP's guy is even vintage. Looks very contemporary to me with filters.

So there!

^^ You mean there's a chance he's still alive? Swoon

Hahaha

I once saw some photos or daguerreotypes of Civil War soldiers. Some of them looked really yummy.

Yes I posted a few R236.

There were a few hot Confederates. Would the be described as Hot Trumpsters now I wonder?

President Rutherford Hayes at age 30. A lawyer and staunch abolitionist, he defended refugee slaves in court proceedings during the antebellum years.

^^ Hayes was a liberal with swagger, yum

That profile

Beautiful

Let's name the first guy. Taken from a list of popular men's names from 1880 I'd say he's either a Carl or an Earl

I like Carl

Just put this guy in leather and what do you get?

^ He sure has that 70s porn star look

Just need the Crisco.

The dude in OP's pic - I'm not convinced that's an actual vintage shot. Looks a lot like a current modeling shot where the guy is styled to look like someone from the 1800s. The hair doesn't seem authentic and he appears to be gym built.

R247, it seems to be real. Here's the full pic:

R248 I dunno. That hair looks very 2000s, and the body looks very World Gym.

Like I said up thread, if he's still alive then I want to know who he is

I wish we knew if anything was written on the back of the photo.

R251 Likely this: 5'11", 165, 7 1/2 uc

Haha

Lol r252 😆

r248, I have a bridge I'd like to sell you in Brooklyn.

That mustache looks like photoshop or at the very least touched up last week.

You're an idiot, R255. Why don't you run along and hunt down the original. Maybe ask your Q friends to help .

This guy has a modern look

Pretty eyes

Bearded

For OP:

Thanks, r262, so now we know he's Rafael. Even after translating the page I'm still not quite sure who he was, but he's a beautiful Spaniard

springer from old reliable

unkown frat

Heribert

Sexy SS?

Naughty Nazi?

Be sure to look at this Twitter account if you like vintage men! A dozen pics every day and I've never seen any of them before. No idea where he gets so many.

Great find, R269! Thanks for sharing that!

Well done R269

This thread is a delight!

Brooke Shields' father, Frank, sure was pretty.

Frank Shields

R269 Ahem... I really enjoy vintage pics, and have seen a lot of them over the years. It's "rewarding" to see how many pics this guy posts, many or most never seen. Thanks for the research.

R263 Rafael's biography doesn't mean much to me.

[quote] Rafael Eloy Martínez de Jaramillo-Quemado y Pombal, XXIII Marqués de Lajara, title granted to his ancestors by Carlos II in the seventeenth century, was a living without rooms, without liquidity, owner of many wastelands that little rented, and that being linked with good sense, to a Pious Work that he now presided over, they could not be sold.

[quote] Refreshing the blood with the vigor that money gives was not a strategy discovered by Madale, it was something she had done herself. Love counts for nothing in the world of preeminence. Don Braulio also knew it and had experienced it, many times we lie with those we do not love and we love those who are forbidden to reciprocate.

[quote] Syllogisms of ancient lineages, of the logic that gives priority to power over pleasure.

R276 Teasingly, deliciously mysterious.

R276, are we sure that this is really a biography and not some historical fanfiction?

I mean, the first part kind of makes sense: An impoverished minor nobleman whose assets bring in little money and cannot be sold because they are tied to a charitable ecclestial foundation.

And then something nonsensical about not marrying for love vs. marrying for money and power, or something.

*ecclesiastical

Sonny Landham...from preacher to porn.

@r278, I couldn't make any sense of his bio either, all I know is if the Spaniard Rafael lived in current times there would have been no need for Antonio Banderas

R276, I saw that weirdly translated bio as well, but, what I really want to know is what dates he lived. I couldn't find it. Lajara, Spain, looks like it is still a small town.

We may have been had about the Marques. This is my go-to site on noble/royal genealogy and there's no "Lajara" mentioned at all. Nor any "Rafael Eloy". Google searches don't find anything, either.

Love the cocky expression

Gorgeous

Sailor

R289 Italian? Underpants? 1970s?

beefcake

I just love the attitude on this Union Soldier during the US Civil War. He is so damn hot.

Chief Bone Necklace of the Lakota. Council chief, there was a separate war chief.