Uncle Dirty
A true character…
uncle dirty
A few months ago I was sitting in my room trying to think of people that would make good photo stories. When the idea to cover the Uncle Dirty story struck me I felt like an idiot for not thinking of it earlier. He is actually my great uncle. At 86 years old he is still completely obsessed with body building. Although he stopped working out a few years ago, he still spends much of his time admiring the body that a lifetime of weight training has given him by taking digital photos and videos of himself in his various homemade thongs. Dirty was a legend on the muscle beaches of New York City in the ’40s and ’50s. He would wake up at the crack of dawn every day and lift weights before working long hours as a truck driver where he also did a lot of heavy lifting loading and unloading trucks. On days off he would rub himself down with iodine and hit the beaches in his thong.