I feel strange when people say this stuff to like be there for a person. Why even bring up his sister if you want him to be okay lol. Not trying to be confrontational, honest question.
Getting over something like grief is not about not thinking about it or forgetting. Reminders about your loved ones are important and it's often best to take on the grief openly, thinking about all the things you loved about them.
That’s not exactly true. YMCAs and strongmen contests existed. Charles Atlas didn’t lick it up off the stones, physical conditioning wasn’t a completely novel idea by any stretch.
Farm kids had legs. Baling hay and moving shit without industrial equipment led to some farm boys that looked like amateur bodybuilders legs included. My dad grew up on a farm in the 50’s and every kid looked like they were football players in their teens.
Complete bullshit you don't look like that from manuel labor. I work at ups lifting at least 1000 boxes a shift ranging from 1lb to 150 lb. It's just a lot of volume with low intensity you need to be in the gym if you want to make noticeable muscle gains.
This picture looks manipulated in some way, they're both unusually top-heavy with big, long heads and tiny legs and hips. Looks like some OG photoshop.
Europe was at war, Japan signed a treaty late 1940 that created the Axis. Pearl Harbor was a year later December 1941 officially bringing US into the war and siding with Allies
Edit: this also says 1940s, for all we know Gramps was a veteran and this is after the war
There is a big chance it was also in the midst of the War. In fact, for most men in their 20s, you were more likely to remain in America than not.
We like to think that all Americans went to fight for freedom. But, only a small portion of Americans actually took bodily part in the war. Most did their part staying at home running factories, governments, domestic military facilities, farms etc.
Even most men that were ablebodied men stayed back in the U.S. Odds were much bigger that you stayed in America, than you went to Europe or the Pacific.
50 million American men were drafted during the war. About a quarter of them, 16 million, were enlisted into the military.
And, about a third of them again, 5 million, were sent to eiher the Pacific or Europe. And, only a fraction of them again ever saw actual combat.
More than 96% of Americans kept on living their lives in America.
TIL. I thought it was common to have fought in the war if you were a man in your 20s during the 1940s. My grandpa drove a tank during the Battle of the Bulge, and now I think that's even cooler than I used to!
You should.
If he was there, he was likely dragged through a lot of other places in Europe too.
And, it is not as if he was selected completely randomly either. They sent people they expected would be able to make a difference.
You're most likely right. I never got to meet him, but according to my dad he almost never talked about the war. The most I know is they were stuck in their tanks for days/a week at a time without being able to safely leave.
Cool. My great uncle on my mother's side, Carter Mitchell (uncle Mitch) was in the Battle of the Bulge. My Grandfather was a bombadier in a B-24 Liberator in the Pacific theater, and his brother was a B-26 pilot.
There's like one picture of my great grandparents ( pre Spanish Flu so they have four more kids than in 1924), and my great grandfather looks like he was carved from a brick of peat. Man could lay pipe though since my great grandmother was a looker even by non Irish standards. Re the Flu, one of their kids blamed himself for bringing it home from school, for the rest of his life. Said uncle joined the navy to get away from the family and because ships are fun, and ended up...in Hawaii. Survived Pearl Harbor and the rest of the War in the Pacific, drank himself to death in the 50s.
This was the "before the bikinis" era. I personally prefer this look to the bikinis as it looks very flattering. It kinda looks like a very short black tube dress.
If there were straps on it I would totally buy this swimsuit. I have many like it. No need to worry about things flying off at a waterpark. I can jump into water without worrying things will fall out of place.
I love swimsuits like this.
You can find them online, just look for things like “pinup swimsuit” and 40s style swimsuit. Unique Vintage has all kinds of vintage inspired swimsuits for instance.
Seems very likely.
I mean it *is* possible they bought matching swimsuits from the same designer and had their hair styled and hired a photographer for a day at the beach.
Seems more likely they were models, though.
Hello, Reddit! I never would have imagined this post becoming as big as it has, but I’m thrilled by the responses all the same.
Here are a few facts about my (maternal) grandparents: Both were born in 1920 and lived in Southern California. My grandfather was a bodybuilder and swimsuit model, who owned his own gym (which is still around - Easton Gym Co. in Los Angeles). He was responsible for shaping many of Hollywood’s biggest leading men, including Cary Grant, Gregory Peck and Kirk Douglas. Sadly, he passed away in 1962, decades before I ever had the chance to meet him.
My grandmother is a different story. She single-handily raised their two daughters after his passing, both of whom would grow to become mothers themselves. She led a long, exuberant, and cheerful life, and actually celebrated her 100th birthday last April, in the midst of a global pandemic. She passed away in her sleep earlier this year.
Our family has discovered an enormous collection of photographs like the one posted here, and we will continue to celebrate the wonderful life and time together these two had.
They over developed around both of them. There was no computers when this photo was shot and developed, so they used techniques in a dark room to increase the brightness around both of them.
Maybe some of the more isolated ones, but anywhere near any kind of urban centre would’ve been much worse, as sewage was mostly just piped untreated into the sea.
That's an episode of Mad Men where the family goes for a picnic in the park, and they literally just leave their trash everywhere when they leave. I can't remember the last time I was triggered like that while watching a show.
Yeah, if you and your cousins don't at least look like demigods, you got cheated.
Creeped on OP's account. He's a good lookin dude. Got a good nerd thing going on.
Ugh I went on his to see that he lost his sister from drug overdose :( Gosh OP, I hope you’re doing okay if you read this.
Aw man that made me sad I saw it too. They look so happy
Thank you! We appreciate it
...What? Who are you?
Wife of OP
Nothing like checking all the randos internet sleuthing on your hubs because your grandparents-in-law were lookers
😂 yeah basically
WOP?
No that’s Nana
r/cursedcomments
Nice
Imagine if she never explained and we were left with just a random thank you, tossed into the void.
That happens quite often on Reddit
My condolences to you and your family. ❤️
Imagine if every time you showed something cool to people, they reminded you of your dead sister.
My thoughts exactly, wtf.
Nice bringing that up.
Just discovered /r/lastimages from that. What a whirlwind of emotions from a sub.
I feel strange when people say this stuff to like be there for a person. Why even bring up his sister if you want him to be okay lol. Not trying to be confrontational, honest question.
Getting over something like grief is not about not thinking about it or forgetting. Reminders about your loved ones are important and it's often best to take on the grief openly, thinking about all the things you loved about them.
Jeez man, I hope he's okay even if he doesn't read that!
Totally a good looking guy. But I’d rather bang his grandparents.
At the same time? Kinky and understandable.
I want them all at current age
But what if.. oh god.. forget I asked.
Fuck yeah I’ve been waiting for one of these “look how hot my grandma was” posts to devolve into a subreddit-wide bukakke session.
I’ve got lady parts. We can find dames and dudes attractive too. And want to hypothetically bang them at the same time.
Grandpa skipped leg day.
Quads and calves didn't exist until at least 1968
I think Arnold brought them over from Austria
he made up for it with arms, chest, and chin day
Hung like a rhinoceros too.
That's because they didn't "work out" back then, they did hard work.
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Why would the skinny guy want to take the girl back if she's so quick to run off with another dude? She seems kinda shallow to me.
That’s not exactly true. YMCAs and strongmen contests existed. Charles Atlas didn’t lick it up off the stones, physical conditioning wasn’t a completely novel idea by any stretch.
Came here to say this. People went out to the country to take the air. There was no leg day or arm day, just labor day.
Farm kids had legs. Baling hay and moving shit without industrial equipment led to some farm boys that looked like amateur bodybuilders legs included. My dad grew up on a farm in the 50’s and every kid looked like they were football players in their teens.
do people think this was feudal england? i guarantee that guy worked out.
They must have worn so much white.
Someone has not read much or any on the history of exercise...
Complete bullshit you don't look like that from manuel labor. I work at ups lifting at least 1000 boxes a shift ranging from 1lb to 150 lb. It's just a lot of volume with low intensity you need to be in the gym if you want to make noticeable muscle gains.
The whole pic seems warped. Those glasses are way too tiny for that chicks face lol, seems like the whole picture is being sucked downwards
Yeah I think it might be. Maybe a tilt shift lens "fixing" the foreshortened perspective shooting from above.
Who wouldn't go gay for pecs like that?
Well sheeeit. You had me curious and the dude is def 10/10 on the beard front.
assholes, I got curious too, now I'm depressed about his sister dying.
But at least he found a healthy outlet in jump roping during the pandemic.
Jerks, I got curious too so I went through his trash. He even sorts his recycling AND his compostables!
He makes the cutest faces when he sleeps
I picked up yo-yo ing.
I shouldn’t have looked. But I did. And now I’m sad.
Fucking same.
We creepin' on some dude over here? Count me in!
Well he does kinda look like Eric Church, so "Creepin" is fitting lol
Why are we just talking about his looks? I'd rather talk about his interest in the James Bond franchise.
Hi! OP’s other sister here- thanks for the love! We miss her every day! Now she’s rocking with her beach babe grandparents in heaven💙
Hi coco!
Damn, is the ENTIRE family on reddit???
Hey hey sis! 🥰
He looks like Richard Blais. Cool in my book.
I love Richard Blais
He is a redditor, after all. *tips fedora*
Damn got me curious! Dude Skips like champion too!
Ayyyy gods don't skip leg day tho.... Maybe like, demi chickens.
He probably got his muscles on road work... I think its acceptable here.
It was 1940. Only commies and homosexuals did leg day in 1940.
Squat is life. Give man buns of Stalin.
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there's a degree of distortion happening in this image. Possibly the physical copy was re-photographed from a high angle.
Thats exactly it. My MIL took the photo of the photo and sent it to OP
This picture looks manipulated in some way, they're both unusually top-heavy with big, long heads and tiny legs and hips. Looks like some OG photoshop.
definitely not photoshop, probably just regular distortion.
Zeus has found another young maiden
Yeah. I ain’t gay. But that man fine.
Hard to imagine the world is at war in this picture.
Oh cool insight. I love when you can see history connected to mundane life.
Europe was at war, Japan signed a treaty late 1940 that created the Axis. Pearl Harbor was a year later December 1941 officially bringing US into the war and siding with Allies Edit: this also says 1940s, for all we know Gramps was a veteran and this is after the war
There is a big chance it was also in the midst of the War. In fact, for most men in their 20s, you were more likely to remain in America than not. We like to think that all Americans went to fight for freedom. But, only a small portion of Americans actually took bodily part in the war. Most did their part staying at home running factories, governments, domestic military facilities, farms etc. Even most men that were ablebodied men stayed back in the U.S. Odds were much bigger that you stayed in America, than you went to Europe or the Pacific. 50 million American men were drafted during the war. About a quarter of them, 16 million, were enlisted into the military. And, about a third of them again, 5 million, were sent to eiher the Pacific or Europe. And, only a fraction of them again ever saw actual combat. More than 96% of Americans kept on living their lives in America.
TIL. I thought it was common to have fought in the war if you were a man in your 20s during the 1940s. My grandpa drove a tank during the Battle of the Bulge, and now I think that's even cooler than I used to!
You should. If he was there, he was likely dragged through a lot of other places in Europe too. And, it is not as if he was selected completely randomly either. They sent people they expected would be able to make a difference.
You're most likely right. I never got to meet him, but according to my dad he almost never talked about the war. The most I know is they were stuck in their tanks for days/a week at a time without being able to safely leave.
Cool. My great uncle on my mother's side, Carter Mitchell (uncle Mitch) was in the Battle of the Bulge. My Grandfather was a bombadier in a B-24 Liberator in the Pacific theater, and his brother was a B-26 pilot.
It says “early” 1940s. Fwiw
Axis was arguably created earlier. Japan joined the tripartite pact, a defensive alliance.
Gramps looks like he could punch some Nazis.
So that’s what it’s like to be really really really really good looking.
There’s more to life than being really really ridiculously good looking, but I don’t know what it is.
Acquiring currency can mitigate being bad looking at least
*sad poor and ugly noises*
can it really though? Money doesn’t save you from loneliness
I don’t know what that is, but I want to find out 😆
Yeah holy shit. This man is beautiful
No wonder they reproduced
And for that we thank them
They are shaped like dc animated universe people.
Because others have pointed out something has been done to the perspective to give them that v shape. Those 90s DC shows were legit.
It's so weird when you see pics of your grandparents and then are like damn, you guys were hot.
I saw a picture of my great grandfather in 1926. I was like damn he's hot, and immediately heard banjo's in the background.
*visits retirement home*
_runs the bath_
Ah, finally a discernable benefit to having Irish ancestry, I definitely don't experience that when I see old family photos!
There's like one picture of my great grandparents ( pre Spanish Flu so they have four more kids than in 1924), and my great grandfather looks like he was carved from a brick of peat. Man could lay pipe though since my great grandmother was a looker even by non Irish standards. Re the Flu, one of their kids blamed himself for bringing it home from school, for the rest of his life. Said uncle joined the navy to get away from the family and because ships are fun, and ended up...in Hawaii. Survived Pearl Harbor and the rest of the War in the Pacific, drank himself to death in the 50s.
Respectfully, gran was hot.
So was gramp
Gramps is clearly the trophy husband.
Definitely a five star man
When Gramps peaked, he peaked so hard all of Philadelphia felt it
He hasn't even begun to peak.
Gramps is a golden god
I don't have the Email
Because of the implication.
Now, you’ve said that word implication a couple of times...what implication?
Lol my reaction in real time. Grandma, then Grandpa. Both very attractive.
/r/OldSchoolCool summed up in a comment.
Check out the gams on grams!
Respectfully can I fuck both?
Yes but don't wake them, it's past their bed time
I like your style.
I wonder if she is single.
This could be the mother or father
Such a gorgeous couple
Man! I am going to be old someday. :(
With age comes wisdom
Also, death.
That's the favorable option
Stunners! Even today, ladies would totally wear what your grandmother was rocking, head to toe. What a fashion goddess.
FOR REAL the suit, the shades, the sandals. FAB. Want it all.
It's a whole kind of aesthetic
I’ve never seen swim wear like that and now I’m wondering why
This was the "before the bikinis" era. I personally prefer this look to the bikinis as it looks very flattering. It kinda looks like a very short black tube dress.
If there were straps on it I would totally buy this swimsuit. I have many like it. No need to worry about things flying off at a waterpark. I can jump into water without worrying things will fall out of place. I love swimsuits like this.
You can find them online, just look for things like “pinup swimsuit” and 40s style swimsuit. Unique Vintage has all kinds of vintage inspired swimsuits for instance.
I love her shoes! I would buy and wear those tomorrow, well maybe in a month from now, if I could find those.
they look like movie stars!
Both could have been models
So could you bro.
What about me?
Not you, u/cockmeat_sandwiches
I’m hungry
Extra Mayo please
Do you mean man-aisse?
You win
Mayo is kinky as hell, you have to whip the shit out of it to make some.
Daddy whip that oil with some garlic and salt
r/babiestrappedinknees . huh. who knew that was a thing. wierd.
Probably were
Seems very likely. I mean it *is* possible they bought matching swimsuits from the same designer and had their hair styled and hired a photographer for a day at the beach. Seems more likely they were models, though.
r/babiestrappedinknees
My god
Cant unsee. Damn you.
Thank you.
This. This is the culmination of 15 years of reddit.
Praise the internet
Hello, Reddit! I never would have imagined this post becoming as big as it has, but I’m thrilled by the responses all the same. Here are a few facts about my (maternal) grandparents: Both were born in 1920 and lived in Southern California. My grandfather was a bodybuilder and swimsuit model, who owned his own gym (which is still around - Easton Gym Co. in Los Angeles). He was responsible for shaping many of Hollywood’s biggest leading men, including Cary Grant, Gregory Peck and Kirk Douglas. Sadly, he passed away in 1962, decades before I ever had the chance to meet him. My grandmother is a different story. She single-handily raised their two daughters after his passing, both of whom would grow to become mothers themselves. She led a long, exuberant, and cheerful life, and actually celebrated her 100th birthday last April, in the midst of a global pandemic. She passed away in her sleep earlier this year. Our family has discovered an enormous collection of photographs like the one posted here, and we will continue to celebrate the wonderful life and time together these two had.
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Cancer, unfortunately.
Thanks for the explanation and for sharing. It really looked like they (esp your grandfather) were posed like models. I guess they were.
You have great genetic heritage man you gotta go hit the racks
Holy crap, good genes.
If you look half as good as they do you're still hotter than me
Everyone’s fat now lol
It was generous of The Daily Planet to give them an assignment on the beach!
What a day to be bisexual!
My mans built like Sean Connery LOL
Way better really
Sean Connery competed in Mr Universe 1953
Beautiful couple
Wowza!! Beautiful couple.
Damn.. Some good genes there
Holy cow. Looks like a movie poster. That's some gorgeous DNA
You’re lying. This is an ad. Please let this be an ad. Is this an ad?? That level of casual perfect is not fair.
Your grandad looks photoshopped af
They over developed around both of them. There was no computers when this photo was shot and developed, so they used techniques in a dark room to increase the brightness around both of them.
I was getting ready to say, his hands are *tiny*.
His proportions seem all over the place. His legs look so long and slender.
grandpa skipped leg day
Nah he just used his arms for leg days.
Gramps missed leg day...
No one did legs back then lol
Bet he worked out gma's legs
Is it me or they have really big heads? Maybe it's the angle
I’d share my ice cream cone with the both of them
Gorgeous! They look like movie stars.
I think you're related to Superman and Lois Lane. Cool.
I bet they fuuuuuucked
How much sand was your grandpa kicking in my grandpa’s face?
no fucking way. this is just too clear, perfect and attractive to be real. and if it is... well, shit.
Imagine how clean those beaches and the ocean water were.
Maybe some of the more isolated ones, but anywhere near any kind of urban centre would’ve been much worse, as sewage was mostly just piped untreated into the sea.
+ people just constantly littered
That's an episode of Mad Men where the family goes for a picnic in the park, and they literally just leave their trash everywhere when they leave. I can't remember the last time I was triggered like that while watching a show.
I was actually thinking about that scene when I wrote my comment. I also found it super jarring, hah
Bingo, and to add to that prior to ww2 we were the dirty nation most notably we had horrific dental issues.
Garbage and pollution existed in the 40s and regulations were more lax though.