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Oldschoolbiketen

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What does anything know about the Johnson and Johnson line of jockstraps? I have a Coach w/2 1/2" waistband and I love it! I would like to learn more about the history of the brand.
 

JSMike

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The oldest reference I have is a 1919 article in the Red Cross Messenger, that stated that US Army athletes, traveling to France to compete in the Inter-allied games, wore "a No. 202 Johnson & Johnson Athletic Supporter, or Jock Strap, with pure silk knit sack." Boys' Life magazine carried ads for J&J supporters in the 1940s. Life magazine also carried ads in the 1940s. In the 1940s and 1950, J&J jocks were endorsed by the New York Yankees.
 
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Most jockstraps were sold at the major department stores
I can remember buying jocks at Target of all places
I would always go to a checkout that had a guy to get a reaction
 
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And I maybe mistaken but the Protex jock was made by Johnson and Johnson
Jocks were really common in the 70’s and 80’s
Lots of guys wore jocks at the gym back then
But times changed here like the US I suppose but interestingly they seemed to be coming back
And Aussiebum are now making a Classic Jock
 

BULGEHOUND

Jockstrap Fan
Johnson & Johnson jockstraps were popular at drug stores c 1964. They were often sold behind a glass counter. Athens, GA.
The «real» PROTEX was not J&J but made in Canada by the Guelph Elastic Hosiery Company. They had numerous models. Most had a tall centre panel above the pouch ( sometimes of knit mesh) that for short-waisted guys like me made the waistband ride up almost to my lower ribs. Some of the older models were quite «neat» with ample but form-fitting pouches and 2-inch waistbands. Many Canadian basketball players wore the «COLLEGIATE» model because its low rise didn't show when wearing the extremely brief (& often SKIN-TIGHT!) shorts that were de rigueur in the 50s and 60s. There was the VARSITY (with 3" hi-rise waistband); the RC#1 and RC#2; and the O'KEE cup-holder jock with soft flannel inner liner and a cast Magnesium cup with large «ventilation» holes and felt binding on the edges. Then there was the «Nylon Pouch» which was, for a time, the only jock we could find in my city. It was an RC#1 (3' band low-rise) but with a TINY pouch made of some sort of semi-plastic mesh with SHARP edges which might have appealed to Ms (of S&M) but worn in gym class left bleeding scratches after only a few minutes of activity. The 3"waistbands (with trademark multiple navy blue stripes) of all Protex jocks were uniformly thick and soft and VERY comfortable if you had flat abs but rolled uncomfortably if there was even a hint of flab down there.

RE J&J, I would occasionally see older cotton J&J jocks and in the hockey locker room (1965) spotted a J&J «All Nylon» being worn under a huge Cooper «Defenseman's Cup». The J&J All Nylon was SLEEK and SEXY but very hard (ptp!] to find and disappeared from the market far too soon. I LOVED the several I was able to get, and wore my last one until it almost disintegrated. The Bike #10s, IF we could find any, were made of flimsy, unbleached cotton, oversized, and would stretch & shrink in all the wrong directions. Occasionally I would spot guys who had gone to school in the USA sporting dazzling WHITE #10s of much better material and much better fit. (to be continued)
 

BULGEHOUND

Jockstrap Fan
I got a J&J jock in minnesota years after I think they stopped making them. It was okay, but nothing to write home about. BIKE any day for me.
For a time, BIKE made some awesome jocks with thick, soft, COMFORTABLE waistbands and accurate sizing. The current GREY Bike models have a sleazy, sharp-edged wiastbamd, sad-sack pouches, and the XXL is really a MED. OH for the days of the «propfessional» Bike jocks — pushed off the market by bean-counters, ad-sales idiots, and the sadistic ball-0crushers who push «compression shorts» which do a superb job of compressing one's jewels and then shredding them with unforgiving seams.
 
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The «real» PROTEX was not J&J but made in Canada by the Guelph Elastic Hosiery Company. They had numerous models. Most had a tall centre panel above the pouch ( sometimes of knit mesh) that for short-waisted guys like me made the waistband ride up almost to my lower ribs. Some of the older models were quite «neat» with ample but form-fitting pouches and 2-inch waistbands. Many Canadian basketball players wore the «COLLEGIATE» model because its low rise didn't show when wearing the extremely brief (& often SKIN-TIGHT!) shorts that were de rigueur in the 50s and 60s. There was the VARSITY (with 3" hi-rise waistband); the RC#1 and RC#2; and the O'KEE cup-holder jock with soft flannel inner liner and a cast Magnesium cup with large «ventilation» holes and felt binding on the edges. Then there was the «Nylon Pouch» which was, for a time, the only jock we could find in my city. It was an RC#1 (3' band low-rise) but with a TINY pouch made of some sort of semi-plastic mesh with SHARP edges which might have appealed to Ms (of S&M) but worn in gym class left bleeding scratches after only a few minutes of activity. The 3"waistbands (with trademark multiple navy blue stripes) of all Protex jocks were uniformly thick and soft and VERY comfortable if you had flat abs but rolled uncomfortably if there was even a hint of flab down there.

RE J&J, I would occasionally see older cotton J&J jocks and in the hockey locker room (1965) spotted a J&J «All Nylon» being worn under a huge Cooper «Defenseman's Cup». The J&J All Nylon was SLEEK and SEXY but very hard (ptp!] to find and disappeared from the market far too soon. I LOVED the several I was able to get, and wore my last one until it almost disintegrated. The Bike #10s, IF we could find any, were made of flimsy, unbleached cotton, oversized, and would stretch & shrink in all the wrong directions. Occasionally I would spot guys who had gone to school in the USA sporting dazzling WHITE #10s of much better material and much better fit. (to be continued)
The «real» PROTEX was not J&J but made in Canada by the Guelph Elastic Hosiery Company. They had numerous models. Most had a tall centre panel above the pouch ( sometimes of knit mesh) that for short-waisted guys like me made the waistband ride up almost to my lower ribs. Some of the older models were quite «neat» with ample but form-fitting pouches and 2-inch waistbands. Many Canadian basketball players wore the «COLLEGIATE» model because its low rise didn't show when wearing the extremely brief (& often SKIN-TIGHT!) shorts that were de rigueur in the 50s and 60s. There was the VARSITY (with 3" hi-rise waistband); the RC#1 and RC#2; and the O'KEE cup-holder jock with soft flannel inner liner and a cast Magnesium cup with large «ventilation» holes and felt binding on the edges. Then there was the «Nylon Pouch» which was, for a time, the only jock we could find in my city. It was an RC#1 (3' band low-rise) but with a TINY pouch made of some sort of semi-plastic mesh with SHARP edges which might have appealed to Ms (of S&M) but worn in gym class left bleeding scratches after only a few minutes of activity. The 3"waistbands (with trademark multiple navy blue stripes) of all Protex jocks were uniformly thick and soft and VERY comfortable if you had flat abs but rolled uncomfortably if there was even a hint of flab down there.

RE J&J, I would occasionally see older cotton J&J jocks and in the hockey locker room (1965) spotted a J&J «All Nylon» being worn under a huge Cooper «Defenseman's Cup». The J&J All Nylon was SLEEK and SEXY but very hard (ptp!] to find and disappeared from the market far too soon. I LOVED the several I was able to get, and wore my last one until it almost disintegrated. The Bike #10s, IF we could find any, were made of flimsy, unbleached cotton, oversized, and would stretch & shrink in all the wrong directions. Occasionally I would spot guys who had gone to school in the USA sporting dazzling WHITE #10s of much better material and much better fit. (to be continued)
Yes that’s the jock
How amazing
I had an RC 1
Then I bought the jock with the panel with the butt straps coming around to the front panel
Quite possibly the most comfortable jockstrap I’ve ever worn
Those Protex jockstraps were the first jocks I officially bought myself
I can still remember the old sales
 
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I should add I bought those jockstraps in the early 70’s
Since then I’ve worn different brands but my preference is still Bike jocks
Great to see them being made again
 
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I have a Johnson & Johnson jockstrap with the 3 inch waistband. The box that it came in says “Modern V-Front construction provides an inward and upward lift for the abdomen and vital zone.” It was probably manufactured in the ‘50s, but it came to me in excellent condition. It looks as if I walked into a drugstore and bought it yesterday. The color is that of unbleached cotton, the same color that I remember for Bike No. 10 when I was in HS. The leg straps (3/4 inch “non-curling“) are impressively sturdy, like professional grade. This is a very comfortable jock though. It is identical to the one that I took from my dad’s dresser to try out before I had my own.

The model of this particular jock is “Trump”. I think that Johnson & Johnson had these other models: Coach, Swimmer, Tuxedo, Rugby. Probably others too (one called Victory maybe?).

It also (as stated on the box) has “Permoflex elastic webbing with its heat-bonded thermoplastic seal stands up better and longer than ordinary webbing. Rubber strands retain their elasticity even when broken.”. In the thread above someone mentioned PROTEX. Maybe there was confusion with Permoflex.
 
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BULGEHOUND

Jockstrap Fan
PROTEX was a Canadian brand (Guelph Elastic Hosiery Company) and they had numerous «models» just like J&J. RC#1; RC#2; Collegiate; Varsity all classic unbleached cotton waistbands most with their trademark multiple navy stripes. The «Collegiate» was a cross between a 1" «swimmer» and a 3" «regular» with a 2" bright white waistband and red striping and a «short» pouch which brought the waistband close to the pubes for «discrete wear» under those old-fashioned skimpy skin-tight basketball shorts — yummmmm! Varsity had a panel above the rather skimpy pouch which made the waistband ride uncomfortably high and the pouch saggy. Then there was the ubiquitous «Nylon Pouch» in which the miniscule pouch was constructed with a skimpy triangle of plastic-stiff mesh with sharp edges — obviously designed for S&M [8—))) Between the friction rashes and balls fallout it was a non-returnable disaster. My favourites were the Collegiate (for its brigh white and red stripes) the 50s version of «fashion jock», and the duller but supremely comfortable RC#2 with its roomy but supportive elastic pouch and soft & snug 3" waistband. While BIKE #10 could be occasionally found, PROTEX was, back in the 50s, usually the only brand you could find anywhere in Canada. I began my love affair with Flaherty and J&J jocks when, in my teens, I stumbled on a store in NYC which catered to professional athletes and had the precursor of the «Wall of Jocks» which was shelf after shelf of numerous brands and models of jocks all in cardbosrd boxes. The clerks, all retirees from professional and semi-professional teams, would patiently unbox strap after strap to demonstrate their design advantages. I spent all my mad-money there and came home with a suitcase full of hardon-inducing «professional» jocks which got envious glances in locker rooms filled with drab Protex and #10s.
 

BULGEHOUND

Jockstrap Fan
One of my absolute favourites was the J&J «400 — All Nylon» which had a brilliant white thick and soft 2" waistband with black striping and a perfectly shaped and sized soft knit nylon pouch. I got mine in a drug store and when I had pretty well destroyed it because I wore it constantly but washed it regularly to keep it «scent-free» I could find only a couple of replacements after extensive searching. I also had a couple of more typical but attractive and comfortable jocks with only the logo «J&J» and no other designation — found in the Bargain Basement of Sears. My first Flaherty jock was a BUB Cup Supporter which I wore as a hockey goalie with an «Original Banana Cup» in the days before everyone and his cousin started cobbling together those massive overstuffed «Goalie Cups». The BUB was so heavy-duty STURDY and perfect-fitting that I began a long love affair with their other jocks including the #105 and other professional-grade jocks until that company, sadly, closed down. The FIT, durability and comfort of those truly «professional-grade» jocks has never been replicated.
 

BULGEHOUND

Jockstrap Fan
The one and only CUP that could be found in my provincial town came from the EATON's mail-order catalogue. PROTEX «O'KEE» with their «patent» moulded MAGNESIUM cup with large rectangular vent holes and the edge bound with felt attached with a winding of some sort of string. after being too-often flogged by grade-school bullies I orderd the O'KEE and wore it daily to protect my sensitive and growing «man-parts». Once I learned to fight properly I stopped wearing it for protection but it then became my favourite jerkoff tool with the cup pressing upward under my by then heavy balls as I pounded away. Vigourous ball-play is still what really makes me blast a big one.

The O'KEE CUP had one dangerous flaw — Magnesium is a component of many fireworks and once it starts burning it becomes a fire-bomb and one of the locker-room pranks was to play a lighter flame on some poor schmuck's cup until it burst into flame and self-destructed in a shower of sparks and billows of acrid smoke. Some time in the 70s, Protex switched over to a cheap white plastic version of the generously-sized and very strong black COOPER cup — the one used by some cup-obsessed jocks as a goblet to drink champagne in the locker room to celebrate a victory. The Protex version , however, was so chintzy it would shatter on even fairly low impact. The shattering of one of those ersatz cups in the dojo where I always wore a JOFA cup for sparring had a string of junk-clutching next-in-lines signing up for me to order them a JOFA. Those JOFA cups were hard to find back then so I ended up ordering and selling dozens of them to dojo buddies.
 
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This cup from Guelph looks like it was meant to stop a guided missile:

Guelph Metal Cup

It looks seriously uncomfortable o_O Fortunately, there have been vast improvements in cup design with modern materials.

And yeah, I’ll take my champagne in a regular plastic cup please.
 

Redsucked02

More in my albums!
I have a Johnson & Johnson jockstrap with the 3 inch waistband. The box that it came in says “Modern V-Front construction provides an inward and upward lift for the abdomen and vital zone.” It was probably manufactured in the ‘50s, but it came to me in excellent condition. It looks as if I walked into a drugstore and bought it yesterday. The color is that of unbleached cotton, the same color that I remember for Bike No. 10 when I was in HS. The leg straps (3/4 inch “non-curling“) are impressively sturdy, like professional grade. This is a very comfortable jock though. It is identical to the one that I took from my dad’s dresser to try out before I had my own.

The model of this particular jock is “Trump”. I think that Johnson & Johnson had these other models: Coach, Swimmer, Tuxedo, Rugby. Probably others too (one called Victory maybe?).

It also (as stated on the box) has “Permoflex elastic webbing with its heat-bonded thermoplastic seal stands up better and longer than ordinary webbing. Rubber strands retain their elasticity even when broken.”. In the thread above someone mentioned PROTEX. Maybe there was confusion with Permoflex.
Love to see a photo of it & the box...or better yet please model it for us!
 
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The one and only CUP that could be found in my provincial town came from the EATON's mail-order catalogue. PROTEX «O'KEE» with their «patent» moulded MAGNESIUM cup with large rectangular vent holes and the edge bound with felt attached with a winding of some sort of string. after being too-often flogged by grade-school bullies I orderd the O'KEE and wore it daily to protect my sensitive and growing «man-parts». Once I learned to fight properly I stopped wearing it for protection but it then became my favourite jerkoff tool with the cup pressing upward under my by then heavy balls as I pounded away. Vigourous ball-play is still what really makes me blast a big one.

The O'KEE CUP had one dangerous flaw — Magnesium is a component of many fireworks and once it starts burning it becomes a fire-bomb and one of the locker-room pranks was to play a lighter flame on some poor schmuck's cup until it burst into flame and self-destructed in a shower of sparks and billows of acrid smoke. Some time in the 70s, Protex switched over to a cheap white plastic version of the generously-sized and very strong black COOPER cup — the one used by some cup-obsessed jocks as a goblet to drink champagne in the locker room to celebrate a victory. The Protex version , however, was so chintzy it would shatter on even fairly low impact. The shattering of one of those ersatz cups in the dojo where I always wore a JOFA cup for sparring had a string of junk-clutching next-in-lines signing up for me to order them a JOFA. Those JOFA cups were hard to find back then so I ended up ordering and selling dozens of them to dojo buddies.

Good re-purposing for your old O’KEE.

About the magnesium, that is awesome! I would have bought a ticket for the opportunity to see the fireworks, and the look on the guy’s face as his cup is reduced to a pile of ash.
 

BULGEHOUND

Jockstrap Fan
Those were the «Bad Ol' Days» when the locker room antics could be pretty edgy. I had champagne out of the Team Captain's COOPER cup more than once as it was passed around altho about half the team «passed» retching at just the sight!
 

BULGEHOUND

Jockstrap Fan
BTW, we always made sure burned-out cups were quickly replaced — after all we didn't want to see anybody on the ice cupless. We only ever had one serious complaint and that was when we burned a «lucky» cup that had been in the victim's family for THREE generations!
 

JSMike

Jockstrap Fan
Some J&J items.
 

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