   Muscle beach party  A George Caddy image of a group pyramid
taken in October 1939.  Photo: George Caddy  Latest related
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'Beachobatics' have the Curator of photography at the State
Library of NSW Alan Davies, jumping for joy.  Steve Meacham
January 8, 2009 - 1:18PM  LONG before it became the preserve of
buffed bodybuilders and flimsily clad beach volleyball players,
the sands of Bondi played host to another sporting discipline
that simply oozed sex: "beachobatics".  For a few short years,
immediately before and during World War II, a group of muscle-
bound men and agile young women would gather at the southern end
of the beach. There they'd strip off into the most daring
costumes of the day and contort their sun-browned bodies into
the most complex human pyramids. Everyday thoughts of economic
depression and global warfare were - like the girl held
horizontally aloft by an outstretched