Blackie Preston Photographed by the Athletic Model Guild

I must thank a generous fan of this blog for this photograph of Blackie Preston taken by the Athletic Model Guild.

John Davidson and Blackie Preston Photographed by the Athletic Model Guild

The Athletic Model Guild took this photograph of John Davidson and Blackie Preston.

Blackie Preston and Jack Reno Photographed by the Athletic Model Guild

The Athletic Model Guild took this photograph of Blackie Preston and Jack Reno.

Blackie Preston and Jack Reno Photographed by the Athletic Model Guild

The Athletic Model Guild took this photograph of Blackie Preston losing to Jack Reno.

Blackie Preston Photographed by the Athletic Model Guild

I must thank a generous fan of this blog for this photograph of Blackie Preston taken by the Athletic Model Guild.

Blackie Preston Photographed by the Athletic Model Guild

The Athletic Model Guild took this photograph of Blackie Preston.

John Davidson and Blackie Preston Photographed by the Athletic Model Guild

I must thank a generous fan of this blog for this photograph taken by the Athletic Model Guild of John Davidson wrestling Blackie Preston.

There are other battling duos on this blog who look like fighting Olympians. These two are always adorable when paired together.

John Davidson and Blackie Preston Photographed by the Athletic Model Guild

The Athletic Model Guild took this photograph of John Davidson and Blackie Preston sharing the studio's shower.

John Davidson and Blackie Preston Photographed by the Athletic Model Guild

The Athletic Model Guild took these photographs of John Davidson posing solo and with Blackie Preston.

Already on this blog is a slightly different version of the image of the duo.

Blackie Preston Photographed by the Athletic Model Guild

The Athletic Model Guild took this photograph of Blackie Preston.

John Davidson, Blackie Preston and Unknown Model Photographed by the Athletic Model Guild

The Athletic Model Guild took these photographs of John Davidson tickling with a feather an unknown model while Blackie Preston secures the lucky victim's arms.

Blackie Preston Photographed by Bruce of Los Angeles

This photograph of Jackie Preston wearing a cowboy hat and boots was taken by Bruce of Los Angeles and is one of the photographer's best studio images shot in black and white.

In 1965, Blackie was the cover model in the thirty-third volume of Bruce of Los Angeles' magazine, The Male Figure.

When you jump to this post on the blog, you can see Blackie acting with John Davidson in a skit by the Athletic Model Guild.

John Davidson and Blackie Preston Photographed by the Athletic Model Guild

Though the stories often elude me or are downright cornball, I do enjoy looking at the skit-like series of photographs put out by the Athletic Model Guild. Bob Mizer also released hundreds of narrative short films featuring models undressing and dressing each other.

This post features Blackie Preston and John Davidson. I haven't a clue what's happening in these images.

I know little about dark-haired Blackie beyond how cute I think he is.

As a reader of this blog alluded to in the comments section of another post, blond John Davidson was a popular beefcake model who was all of twenty when the U. S. Marine Corps shipped him off to Vietnam, where he died in combat.