He "appeared" at the gym 6 X a week bro and trained with Draper,Katz,Robby,Callard,Gable,ColombuPadilla,Giuliani,Drasin,Zabo,Dave Dupree,and many others.......also hung out with them after training,going to the beach,getting pussy,eating in restaurants,etc..etc.
He was young and living the life he planned...............wh ich was to be on the top of the bodybuilding ladder.
I've heard the stories before, but what time period are you actually talking about, after he learned english, and before he made stay hungry.
I've always felt the image of their friendships was much on the level of extreme sports athletes who pretend to be part of the be super friends crew in order to sell product.
Granted columbo was for sure arnolds bud, but the rest seem to only be there for photo opps in the 10 weeks before a show.
Again I could be wrong, but I think the golden years were far fewer and far sparser than we are lead to believe.
This is way before he became involved in politics and was in his 20`s and 30`s.......use your head.
It was a time period before he turned 28, and for the longest time he didn't speaka de english.
It wasn't politics it was business, to sell the sport you had to sell the characters/image, they even admit that it was very intentional during pumping iron.