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Bike Jockstrap Large White/Grey Adult Supporter

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A heavy duty cup was invented around 1930 by a Bronx opera fan named "Foulproof" Taylor; it was sold and used by boxers throughout the 1930s. The 1920 Kelley-How-Thomson Company of Duluth catalog carried four kinds of Athletic Supporters, including one “Made on the Pfister Model.” A 1941 magazine ad shows a smiling teenaged boy’s face above Bike Nos. 5 and 55 supporters. Text reads, “He looks to you…and he’s your responsibility; Supporter WILT is Dangerous! BIKE quality assures dependable, lasting support.” Bike Web Manufacturing Company, Chicago.

A 1940 Bike ad, “History of Sports, Basketball” reads, “Like basketball, athletic equipment has come a long way.” Bike Web Manufacturing Company, Chicago. In the 1950s and 1960s concern for physical fitness resulted in the mandatory use of athletic supporters by most boys in school P.E. classes. In 1947 Johnson & Johnson ran four ads for All-Elastic V-Front Supporters in Boys’ Life (March, April, June, July) with drawings of athletes. A 1907 catalog from A. M. Holter Hardware Co. listed ads for Morton Supporters, and an Abdominal Guard and Supporter of molded leather, lined with lamb’s wool.

They’re good for sports

It stayed this way until AIDS hit. As early as 1983, just a few years after the AIDS crisis was first reported, there had been 3,064 reported cases of AIDS — and 71 percent of them were gay or bisexual men.

A 1949 OC ad shows a baseball player saying, “The Word’s Getting ‘Round – For Action OLYMPIC CHAMPION Is The Supporter.” The O-C Manufacturing Co., Little Falls, NJ. An April 1940 Bike ad, “History of Sports, Tennis” shows a tennis player of centuries past. Bike Web Manufacturing Company, Chicago.A March 1898 issue of The Pharmaceutical Era carried an ad and an article about Rawson’s Saratoga Suspensory, and mentions that the S. E. G. Rawson Co. was established in 1858. A 1948 magazine ad depicts a BIKE No. 86 Supporter with a wide waistband. The Bike Web Company, Chicago. Sports Illustrated runs an article in 1989 on the 50th anniversary of the Cooperstown Baseball Museum, and includes an image of a metal cup, which it claims was “the first known protective cup,” worn by Claude Berry in 1915. An October 1946 ad has a photo montage of 4 sports above text reading, “Protection that pays.” There is a depiction of the Bike No. 53 Cup Supporter, and of the Bike No. 50 Cup. The cushion is sold separately as Bike No. 48 Rubber Cushion For Cup. “There’s a BIKE Support For Every Sport.” The Bike Web Company, Chicago.

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