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- John and Jane Adams Postcard Collection
Santa Monica, California, Muscle Beach
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PC-002-787
Santa Monica, California, Muscle Beach
Watson, George E.
Distribution: Mitock and Sons, North Hollywood, California
A message on the back claims that the area is "Known as a gathering place for athletes and Muscle Men." In the photograph, several men and women perform on a long mat, the most prominent a threesome where one man is standing on another's shoulders and holding the hips of a woman posing in a swan dive. The original area was the Santa Monica Beach Playground, with people exercising there starting around 1932-1934. The platform shown here was erected later just south of the Santa Monica Pier. According to one source, Muscle Beach "closed" in the 1950s. The publisher's number P14455 is on the divided back.
George E. Watson; Plastichrome; Muscle Beach; Beaches; Santa Monica
California - Santa Monica
- John and Jane Adams Postcard Collection
MS-0008
Colourpicture, Boston, Massachusetts
Postcard
3.5 inches X 5.5 inches
No
Rose, Marla Matzer. Muscle Beach: Where the best bodies in the world started a fitness revolution. St. Martin's Press: New York, 2001.
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