Bill Melby Photographed by Bruce of Los Angeles

Already on this blog is a cropped version of this photograph of Bill Melby taken by Bruce of Los Angeles.

Bill Melby Photographed by Bruce of Los Angeles

Bruce of Los Angeles took this photograph of Bill Melby.

Bill Melby Photographed by Bruce of Los Angeles

Here's another photograph taken by Bruce of Los Angeles of Bill Melby early in his bodybuilding and wrestling career.

Bill Melby Photographed by Bruce of Los Angeles

Here are more photographs taken by Bruce of Los Angeles of Bill Melby early in his bodybuilding career.

Bill Melby Photographed by Bruce of Los Angeles

Here are more photographs of Bill Melby taken early in his career by Bruce of Los Angeles. 

Bill Melby Photographed by Bruce of Los Angeles

These are among my favorite photographs of Bill Melby taken early in his career by Bruce of Los Angeles.

Bill Melby Photographed by the Western Photography Guild

The Western Photography Guild took these photographs of Bill Melby.

Bill Melby Photographed by Bruce of Los Angeles

Bruce of Los Angeles took these photographs of Bill Melby, about whose wrestling career you can read a bit when you jump to this post on the blog.

Bill Melby Photographed by Bruce of Los Angeles

I was pleased to add to my collection this color photograph of Bill Melby taken by Bruce of Los Angeles.

Bill Melby Photographed by the Western Photography Guild

The Western Photography Guild took this photograph of Bill Melby.

Bill Melby

I do not know who took this photograph of Bill Melby.

Bill Melby Photographed by the Western Photography Guild

The Western Photography Guild took this photograph of Bill Melby.

Bill Melby

Here are two more great photographs of Bill Melby.

Bill Melby

 

Here are three more photographs of handsome, hiruste Bill Melby, about whom you can read a bit when you jump to this post on the blog.

Bill Melby Photographed by the Western Photography Guild

I believe this is the only color photograph I have of popular Bill Melby.

The Western Photography Guild took this great image.

Bill Melby

Bill Melby looks great in these photographs taken in the 1950's.

I suspect the images of him posing with the beach ball were taken by Bruce of Los Angeles, but I am waiting for confirmation.

Bill Melby

Here are two more photographs of Bill Melby, about whom you can learn more when you jump to this post on the blog.

Bill Melby

Bill Melby won the title Mr. Pacific Coast in 1948 and became a popular model photographed by the top beefcake photographers in the 1950's.

In the latter part of that decade, he launched a very successful wrestling career. He won numerous titles, including the NWA Texas Tag Team title with Pepper Gomez (about whom you can learn a bit by jumping to this post on the blog) when the duo defeated Mr. Moto and Duke Keomukda in November, 1957.

These images of Melby were taken later in his career.