Did you ever notice how every pro in every little locale tends to light a fire in enough people to create a little "scene" all it's own? It only takes 2 pros and a good amateur to make a "mini-mecca" or "hotbed." Proof that bodybuilding is viral, pretty much like everything else. The "scene" is usually as big as the best bodybuilder from there. Alot of the time it isn't even really the "pro" that ignites such, it's the guy that fires up the pros. Joe Weider made pros out of everyone he identified as having potential and then tried to motivate back in the 60's and 70's, then Ed Connors and John Brown did the same thing throughout the 80's and 90's. I'm sure everything started with Katz in Connecticut.