#Abbye “Pudgy” Stockton

[imadititom]

[instantkrazy]

Abbye “Pudgy” Stockton (1917-2006)

[middlingmay]

So I was thinking about Fem!Bucky again and how @avonne-writes @brotherwtf and I were losing it in separate convos one time about how thick and lovely she'd be.

I used one of those shitty AI gender swap apps (hilariously bad results, as to be expected), but can you imagine Gale trying to keep it together when faced with this:

I also found out about Abbye "Pudgy" Stockton who was a female body builder in the 1940s and I'm dying a little bit because look at her. Look at them all:

And now I'm thinking what if Bucky wasn't in the women's air force but was part of a show that entertained the troops: Bucky Egan and Alice from Dallas bringing the USAAF to it's knees, and poor Gale tries not to swallow his own tongue when for some reason, Bucky Egan takes a shine to him.

[the-history-of-fighting]

"Abbye “Pudgy” Stockton (1917-2006). Born in Santa Monica, Abbye was known as “Pudgy” growing up because she was in fact, pudgy.

Steadily packing on the pounds while working as a telephone operator in the late 1930s, she eventually decided that enough was enough and did something almost unprecedented: Abbye started lifting weights. She soon became a familiar face at Santa Monica’s famed Muscle Beach ...

At 5’1″ and 115, Abbye wasn’t just strong, she was built. Abbye organized the first sanctioned weightlifting meets for women, and had personal PRs that included a 100 lb press, 105lb snatch, and a 135 lb clean & jerk…in 1947.

Yet, she exuded a sense of delicate femininity that ruled the times. After World War II, She opened a gym for women on Sunset Boulevard and began writing the column “Barbelles” for Strength and Health magazine, the world’s influential fitness magazine at the time."

[raven-the-norseman]

Abbye “Pudgy” Stockton (115 pounds at 5'2") supporting her husband Les (180 pounds) overhead in a hand to handstand, at Muscle Beach in the late 1940s.

[fabioperes]

First woman gym owner in California Abbye "Pudgy" Stockton, lifts 135 pounds at 5ft 2 and 115 herself. Muscle Beach, California, 1946-48 [633x800] https://ift.tt/jdXkg7D https://ift.tt/jdXkg7D Submitted October 13, 2024 at 05:28AM by Electrical-Aspect-13 https://ift.tt/0odkMt7 via /r/HistoryPorn

[jeanmetabolictrainer]

Abbye Pudgy Stockton La Reina Como luce una mujer fuerte NATURAL

[oddwomen]

Abbye "Pudgy" Stockton on the cover of Strength & Health Magazine (March 1948)

[l00k4tm4m45c415]

Abbye “Pudgy” Stockton

[lonelinessfollowsme]

Abbye “Pudgy” Stockton. She was a forerunner to female bodybuilding, frequenting “Muscle Beach" in the forties. Standing 5′2″ and weighing about 115, the nickname “Pudgy” was a carryover from when she was a child.

[bobbysoxrs]

Abbye "Pudgy" Stockton

[aiiaiiiyo]

Abbye “Pudgy” Stockton, 1946. “Pudgy” (1917 – 2006) played a central role in popularizing physical culture and exercise for women in the mid-Twentieth Century. She was the author of “Barbelles,” a monthly column that appeared in Strength and Health magazine, 1944-1954. Check this blog!

[whosthegloomiesofthemall]

Abbye "Pudgy" Stockton

[safetyphoto]

Queen of Muscle Beach: 20 Vintage Portraits of Abbye “Pudgy” Stockton From the 1940s https://ift.tt/yfdZ1K5

[raven-the-norseman]

"To me, a bodybuilder is someone who not only builds his body naturally, but has functional, real-world muscle that can be used at any time, and will help the person perform any activity better." - Steve Reeves

"People used to say that if women worked out, they would become masculine-looking or wouldn't be able to get pregnant. We just laughed because we knew they were wrong." -Abbye "Pudgy" Stockton (An early pioneer of women's fitness)

[adelinamcgann42090]

The Original Girl Gone Strong: Abbye “Pudgy” Stockton Abbye Eville, more commo… https://ift.tt/2nOnKwK