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Saw him many times when I was younger at Mt. Park Amusement Center..........Ed Jubinville ran a lot of contests there.........everything was free.
Len had a great physique.........very proportioned,not like the shitbags of today.
RIP :(
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Len Archambault
1975
Mr America - IFBB, Medium, 5th
Mr East Coast - IFBB, Medium, 1st
Mr East Coast - IFBB, Overall Winner
Mr USA - IFBB, Tall, 3rd
1976
Mr Florida - AAU, 5th
1977
Mr America - IFBB, MiddleWeight, 4th
Mr Florida - AAU, 3rd
Mr USA - IFBB, MiddleWeight, 4th
1978
Mr USA - IFBB, Medium, 1st
1979
Mr International - IFBB, MiddleWeight, 3rd
1980
Mr International - IFBB, MiddleWeight, 1st
1981
Grand Prix New England - IFBB, 13th
Mr International - IFBB, Light-HeavyWeight, 7th
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I had never heard of him before but felt compelled to write that his physique is extremely good. The reason some of you might
not like or appreciate it is because we have become numb with the overdose of what bodybuilding has become: An unattractive, bloated and over-
exaggerated standard which produces nothing pleasing to the eye.
I would kill to look like Len.
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Saw him many times when I was younger at Mt. Park Amusement Center..........Ed Jubinville ran a lot of contests there.........everything was free.
Len had a great physique.........very proportioned,not like the shitbags of today.
RIP :(
Mt. Park is.. this place?
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=36452.0;attach=52984;image)
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Saw him many times when I was younger at Mt. Park Amusement Center..........Ed Jubinville ran a lot of contests there.........everything was free.
Len had a great physique.........very proportioned,not like the shitbags of today.
RIP :(
jubinville was a equipment manufacture and muscle control artist...
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Mt. Park is.. this place?
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=36452.0;attach=52984;image)
Yes it is....I saw Arnold there,as well as Katz,Colombu,Leon Brown,the Mentzer brothers,joe Ugolik,Warren Fredericks, my friend Dave Mastorakis,and a host of other great bodybuilders........all free,no admission,no entry fees,free trophies,if you placed of course.
I entered the Deadlift,chinup,and bench press contests held there before the bodybuilding event.
Also got myself in the movie Pumping Iron in 2 crowd scenes.......my claim to fame!! :D
jubinville was a equipment manufacture and muscle control artist...
Yes,if you bought Eds equipment in the 70`s,chances are it is still holding up well........great stuff built to last.
Saw his muscle control act on many occasions............... ....totally unreal what this guy could do with his body.
He died in the gym training,doing what he loved best.
Great person who gave a shit about the sport over just making a buck.
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Great stories wes.
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Thanks bro!!
Here`s a weird tidbit.........Iwas always impressed by Leon Browns physique and he would win at Mt. Park a lot and take all the best bodyparts awards as well as Most Muscular...........he is the reason Lou Ferrigno backed out of a contest there as he knew he`d get smoked.
Anyway,flash forward about 20 years and I compreted with Leon at the NPC Masters Nationals one year...........we talked a lot about Mt. Park............he still looked great and trained with Arnold and the Golds Gym crew and even beat Franco for most muscular.
It is rare that you get to compete with one of your idols when you were a kid..........no homo of course.
Here`s a few pics of Leon:
(http://perlbal.hi-pi.com/blog-images/201226/gd/1230102541/Bodybuilders-70-s-Leon-Brown-vs-Ed-Corney.jpg%5B/img%5Bimg%5Dhttp://www.legendaryleonbrown.com/learnfromalegend_clip_image001.jpg)
(http://www.legendaryleonbrown.com/leonfancyfigures_clip_image001_0000.jpg)
^^^72` Mr. East Coast held at Mt. Park............the judges told Leon to just stay on stage as he won the overall contest,best arms,back,chest,abs,MM,poser,etc. etc.
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Is that charlie fautz in the background of that first pic?
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I also met Elliot Gilchrist at Mt. Park then years later competed with him in Ft. Lauderdales Southern States.
Great old guy who refused to fly so Canada paid his expenses............bus tickets and accomidations.
Look him up on Muscle Memory.............compe ted against the best in his prime.
I hope I`m not boring the folks here,but I miss those good old days when we thought bodybuilding might actually be achievable. :(
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Sorry to hear about Len.
I remember a pic of him in a 1981 M&F report on the pro grand prix he entered and I thought he looked like Frank Zane. An excellent physique.
RIP
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Is that charlie fautz in the background of that first pic?
Yup,that`s Chuck Fautz alright.
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(http://cms.bbcomcdn.com/fun/images/2009/legendary_leon_brown_interview_p.jpg)
Name this crew with Leon Brown and win a set of encyclopedias! :D
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I can`t find anymore pics of Lenny which sux as that pic doesn`t do him full justice.
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Since I`m on a roll as far as boring you if you`re this thread,there was a guy named Claude Rigon,some may remember him,he won a slew of Masters contests back in the 70`s.........he was from Jersey.
Anyway,I`m from Springfield Mass and am training with my twin cousins and I notice this guy who looks just like Claude,surer than shit it was him,visiting his son at Springfield College.............we shot the shit,very personable guy.
Flash forward once again,about 10-12 years later, and I`m standing behind him at the Southern States getting weighed in..........he was around 70,bronze than,hot chick,and still looked great.
Weirdly enough,he remembered our conversation in Springfield.
Small world,but I wouldn`t want to pain it! LOL :D
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I can`t find anymore pics of Lenny which sux as that pic doesn`t do him full justice.
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Here you go WES...
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Thanks spritz,I knew there had to be a few more out there.
Appreciate it bud.
Great build for his day.......in fact I think he beat Mike Mentzer at Mt. Park...........have to check MuscleMemory to be sure.
Katz training partner Joe Ugolik from PI fame beat either Mike or Ray.......not an easy feat as those fuckers were huge.
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Mike would be VERY difficult to beat back then, he had a chest then!!
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Since I`m on a roll as far as boring you if you`re this thread,there was a guy named Claude Rigon,some may remember him,he won a slew of Masters contests back in the 70`s.........he was from Jersey.
Anyway,I`m from Springfield Mass and am training with my twin cousins and I notice this guy who looks just like Claude,surer than shit it was him,visiting his son at Springfield College.............we shot the shit,very personable guy.
Flash forward once again and I`m standing behind him at the Southern States getting weighed in..........he was around 70,bronze than,hot chick,and still looked great.
wasn't claude rigon a french teacher???
Weirdly enough,he remembered our conversation in Springfield.
Small world,but I wouldn`t want to pain it! LOL :D
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Thanks spritz,I knew there had to be a few more out there.
Appreciate it bud.
Great build for his day.......in fact I think he beat Mike Mentzer at Mt. Park...........have to check MuscleMemory to be sure.
Katz training partner Joe Ugolik from PI fame beat either Mike or Ray.......not an easy feat as those fuckers were huge.
joe ugolik in background.
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Mike would be VERY difficult to beat back then, he had a chest then!!
1975 Mr East Coast - IFBB
Overall Winner Len Archambault
Tall
1 Gene Massey
2 Ray Delaney
3 Barry Blenis
Medium
1 Len Archambault
2 Mike Mentzer
3 Joseph Ugolik
Short
1 David Mastorakis
2 Tony Roma
3 Kennedy Gomez
© MuscleMemory
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joe ugolik in background.
Joe had a couple brothers who competed also,but they never made the impact that he did,Stan and Nick if memory serves me.
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I also met Elliot Gilchrist at Mt. Park then years later competed with him in Ft. Lauderdales Southern States.
Great old guy who refused to fly so Canada paid his expenses............bus tickets and accomidations.
Look him up on Muscle Memory.............compe ted against the best in his prime.
I hope I`m not boring the folks here,but I miss those good old days when we thought bodybuilding might actually be achievable. :(
gilchrist competed from 1966-2000. wonder if he's still alive.... i remember mti lurie's mag profiling him in the mid 60's ,,,,, he was fairly old then... :o :o :o :o :o :o
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gilchrist competed from 1966-2000. wonder if he's still alive.... i remember mti lurie's mag profiling him in the mid 60's ,,,,, he was fairly old then... :o :o :o :o :o :o
I often wondered the same thing.....I did the 2000 Southern States with him..........he said he had well over 100 trophies out in his garage collecting dust.
Nice old dude.
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Here`s another boring story about the first time I met Lenny Archambault.
Me and my training partner took a bus to Boston to compete in the 1974 Boston Open Power Meet.
At midnight after all the lifting was over,the bodybuilding portion of the show started.............abou t 15 guys and 2 of them were Len and his then training partner Manny Perry.
Just like you always hear...............light hooked onto a basketball hoop in the gym with a shitty sign............those lights created great shadows though and made the guys look unreal if they had a good build.
Len won and I also met Barry Blemis at Mt. Park who was a huge guy and was famous for doing a yogurt commercial at the time.
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Dammit! Lost another great one. :-[
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Found this one. He looks good in the lineup.
Kent Kuehn, Mike Mentzer, Roger Callard, Robby Robinson, Len Archambault
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Great pic Vince.......never saw it before.
Right click save for sure.
Thanks!! :)
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Great pic Vince.......never saw it before.
Right click save for sure.
Thanks!! :)
Found it on Google images, then made it larger and edited it to look better.
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Thanks again.....he holds his own quite well amongst all those bb legends.
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RIP to Len... Wife and I were watching Football a few weeks back at Dave Mastorakis's place w/ Dave and his wife Tracy, looking thru Dave's scrapbooks.
Lots of great pics of Len (and Mentzers). Dave took those pics of Mentzer and Zane seen backstage (like the one in this thread). And that great Zane pic that shows up on occasion.
RIP Lenny...
(http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b265/nathang123/Frank20Zane2033.jpg)
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Great stuff Wes! RIP Len.
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Dammit! Lost another great one. :-[
x2 RIP
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Thanks again.....he holds his own quite well amongst all those bb legends.
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WES, here he is at :30 into the video...sadly the only one I could find on YouTube
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RIP to Len... Wife and I were watching Football a few weeks back at Dave Mastorakis's place w/ Dave and his wife Tracy, looking thru Dave's scrapbooks.
Lots of great pics of Len (and Mentzers). Dave took those pics of Mentzer and Zane seen backstage (like the one in this thread). And that great Zane pic that shows up on occasion.
RIP Lenny...
(http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b265/nathang123/Frank20Zane2033.jpg)
That's a great pic. I'm quite partial to early Zane (with the Elvis hair).
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sad. first time I saw pics of him were In the George Snyder's 'best in the world' contest. I thought his name was Zanesque Len Archambault because that is what it said under his pic. (give me a break, I was 14!!!) lol
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WES, here he is at :30 into the video...sadly the only one I could find on YouTube
Thanks brother. :)
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How many chin-ups did you do?
Yes it is....I saw Arnold there,as well as Katz,Colombu,Leon Brown,the Mentzer brothers,joe Ugolik,Warren Fredericks, my friend Dave Mastorakis,and a host of other great bodybuilders........all free,no admission,no entry fees,free trophies,if you placed of course.
I entered the Deadlift,chinup,and bench press contests held there before the bodybuilding event.
Also got myself in the movie Pumping Iron in 2 crowd scenes.......my claim to fame!! :D
Yes,if you bought Eds equipment in the 70`s,chances are it is still holding up well........great stuff built to last.
Saw his muscle control act on many occasions............... ....totally unreal what this guy could do with his body.
He died in the gym training,doing what he loved best.
Great person who gave a shit about the sport over just making a buck.
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How many chin-ups did you do?
Hey Bixter,I did 20 full range chinups with a wide grip,with no training for the event.
Everyone elses chins were not to a dead hang and some used an underhand grip.
The great deadlifter Norm Hebert won with over 30 but used an underhand grip,not to full extension,very fast with a herky jerky motion.............I did mine bodybuilding style as I was taught.
Jubinville used to just call me up from the audience to compete in these odd lift contests,so I never truly trained for them.
I tied Stanley Blinder a Mr. Universe competitor in the deadlift for reps with double bodyweight,so that was cool,at least I thought I was cool but we both placed out of the money.
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this is the mag gilchrist was written up in at this point he lived in the usa for 2 years , he was born in grenada...