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Title: 78 Olympia
Post by: SweetDaddySiki on April 04, 2024, 04:11:38 PM
John Hansen: A wonderful source for bodybuilding! He's posted a report on the 78 Mr O on Youtube:



Title: Re: 78 Olympia
Post by: Rambone on April 04, 2024, 04:39:55 PM
I actually woke up this morning thinking about the 1978 Olympia (with morning wood)
Title: Re: 78 Olympia
Post by: Royalty on April 04, 2024, 04:52:58 PM
I actually woke up this morning thinking about the 1978 Olympia (with morning wood)

Me too... but I was thinking about the Olympia in 1977
Title: Re: 78 Olympia
Post by: oldtimer1 on April 04, 2024, 07:13:50 PM
Bill Grant worked his calves hard. He just lost the genetic lottery.  He looked amazing on stage when I saw him.
Title: Re: 78 Olympia
Post by: AbrahamG on April 04, 2024, 07:22:34 PM
Bill Grant worked his calves hard. He just lost the genetic lottery.  He looked amazing on stage when I saw him.

Did he fill his posing slacks up nicely?
Title: Re: 78 Olympia
Post by: BB on April 04, 2024, 07:52:00 PM
Did he fill his posing slacks up nicely?

https://qnews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/1970s-BIll-Grant.jpg (https://qnews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/1970s-BIll-Grant.jpg).

Bill wasn't afraid of a good bi shot.
Title: Re: 78 Olympia
Post by: tommywishbone on April 04, 2024, 08:50:50 PM
I did not attend the 1978 Mr. Olympia.
Title: Re: 78 Olympia
Post by: Humble Narcissist on April 05, 2024, 12:17:41 AM
https://qnews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/1970s-BIll-Grant.jpg (https://qnews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/1970s-BIll-Grant.jpg).

Bill wasn't afraid of a good bi shot.
Bicep or bisexual?
Title: Re: 78 Olympia
Post by: IroNat on April 05, 2024, 04:57:10 AM
Great article.

Very well written.

Thanks to Hansen for sharing.
Title: Re: 78 Olympia
Post by: Pet shop boys on April 05, 2024, 05:57:54 AM
Bill Grant worked his calves hard. He just lost the genetic lottery.  He looked amazing on stage when I saw him.

Had insulin and GH been around back then ....  a Ronnie like transformation ....

Same goes for Ron Love .



WooooSHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Title: Re: 78 Olympia
Post by: beakdoctor on April 05, 2024, 07:20:59 AM
I actually woke up this morning thinking about the 1978 Olympia (with morning wood)

You too!?
Title: Re: 78 Olympia
Post by: BB on April 05, 2024, 09:49:51 AM
Bicep or bisexual?

Both, Bill seems a happy-go-lucky fellow. Here he was, competing at the Mr Fire Island in '73 -

(https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60007445c7c0510cd2e6b863/1627477809058-J503XJLIMGCPJPGRFDWT/Cherry+Grove+Mr+Fire+Island+1973b.jpg?format=1000w).

A young Lou Ferrigno showed up there as well -

(https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60007445c7c0510cd2e6b863/1627477108669-0Z3HRL043JWMG2MNZG4N/Cherry+Grove+lou+Ferrigno+Mr+FI+1973.JPG?format=1500w).

I wonder how fast Lou caught on? I like to think he pulled Matty aside and scarily muttered "Dad, dut are all da daggots doing deer!?"

 
Title: Re: 78 Olympia
Post by: IroNat on April 05, 2024, 10:27:18 AM
Funny, bb.
 :D
Title: Re: 78 Olympia
Post by: Rambone on April 05, 2024, 11:02:20 AM
BB, is it true that Lou worked at an all-gay sheet metal factory?
Title: Re: 78 Olympia
Post by: BB on April 05, 2024, 11:38:27 AM
BB, is it true that Lou worked at an all-gay sheet metal factory?

Yes, he even posted about it on Facebook -

(https://i.postimg.cc/FstKNCZv/38171810-2134932953185894-7819220586386685952-n.jpg).

For years afterward, it's been said he'd get dolled up as the Hulk, and bend all sorts of complicated shapes for the amusement of the boys of Local 28 -

(https://i.postimg.cc/W1TYLjqk/the-incredible-hulk-returns-lg.jpg).
Title: Re: 78 Olympia
Post by: Rambone on April 05, 2024, 11:58:54 AM
Yes, he even posted about it on Facebook -

(https://i.postimg.cc/FstKNCZv/38171810-2134932953185894-7819220586386685952-n.jpg).

For years afterward, it's been said he'd get dolled up as the Hulk, and bend all sorts of complicated shapes for the amusement of the boys of Local 28 -

(https://i.postimg.cc/W1TYLjqk/the-incredible-hulk-returns-lg.jpg).

Lmao!!!!
Title: Re: 78 Olympia
Post by: SweetDaddySiki on April 05, 2024, 12:36:41 PM
Mr Fire Island...  ::)

Title: Re: 78 Olympia
Post by: BB on April 05, 2024, 01:00:30 PM
It made me laugh so hard when I found that a few years ago -

https://www.pineshistory.org/the-archives/the-mr-fire-island-contest-1970s-1990 .

There are no outs for appearing at that contest. It got tons of big names too.

"On July 19, 1970 rather than the annual Miss Fire Island contest a Mr. Fire Island Body Beautiful contest was held. Sponsored by QQ magazine and Bud Parker (American director of the International Federation of Bodybuilders.) Over 900 people attended with 27 contestants showing their stuff. The contestants ranged from famous musclemen to drag queens mixed in for comedic effect.

QQ Magazine (Queen’s Quarterly) was an important pioneering magazine published in Manhattan in the 60s and 70s. QQ’s art director was the artist, A. Jay, (Al Shapiro), who drew one of the first continuing gay comic strips, “Harry Chess” which debuted in QQ . “Harry Chess” continued serialized in Drummer for years.

Among the judges were: Lou Thomas representing Colt Studios, physique photographer George Hester, leather craftsman Marquis de Suede, and QQ publisher George Desantis.


(https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60007445c7c0510cd2e6b863/1627474070809-0QTFDVRZH8URCAQD5PRM/QQ+1971.jpg?format=750w). (https://www.lambiek.net/artists/image/s/shapiro_allen/shapiro_harrychess.jpg).

That's "the "Harry Chess" comic.
Title: Re: 78 Olympia
Post by: Humble Narcissist on April 06, 2024, 12:22:32 AM
Both, Bill seems a happy-go-lucky fellow. Here he was, competing at the Mr Fire Island in '73 -

(https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60007445c7c0510cd2e6b863/1627477809058-J503XJLIMGCPJPGRFDWT/Cherry+Grove+Mr+Fire+Island+1973b.jpg?format=1000w).

A young Lou Ferrigno showed up there as well -

(https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60007445c7c0510cd2e6b863/1627477108669-0Z3HRL043JWMG2MNZG4N/Cherry+Grove+lou+Ferrigno+Mr+FI+1973.JPG?format=1500w).

I wonder how fast Lou caught on? I like to think he pulled Matty aside and scarily muttered "Dad, dut are all da daggots doing deer!?"

 
I had no idea but I'm not surprised. :-[
Title: Re: 78 Olympia
Post by: njflex on April 06, 2024, 04:56:26 AM
Mr Fire Island...  ::)
Charles, a man went to fire Island with a blank in his hand, and saw many men there, and said oh my god there’s so much blankety-blank here
Title: Re: 78 Olympia
Post by: Pet shop boys on April 08, 2024, 03:17:25 PM
It made me laugh so hard when I found that a few years ago -

https://www.pineshistory.org/the-archives/the-mr-fire-island-contest-1970s-1990 .

There are no outs for appearing at that contest. It got tons of big names too.

"On July 19, 1970 rather than the annual Miss Fire Island contest a Mr. Fire Island Body Beautiful contest was held. Sponsored by QQ magazine and Bud Parker (American director of the International Federation of Bodybuilders.) Over 900 people attended with 27 contestants showing their stuff. The contestants ranged from famous musclemen to drag queens mixed in for comedic effect.

QQ Magazine (Queen’s Quarterly) was an important pioneering magazine published in Manhattan in the 60s and 70s. QQ’s art director was the artist, A. Jay, (Al Shapiro), who drew one of the first continuing gay comic strips, “Harry Chess” which debuted in QQ . “Harry Chess” continued serialized in Drummer for years.

Among the judges were: Lou Thomas representing Colt Studios, physique photographer George Hester, leather craftsman Marquis de Suede, and QQ publisher George Desantis.


(https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60007445c7c0510cd2e6b863/1627474070809-0QTFDVRZH8URCAQD5PRM/QQ+1971.jpg?format=750w). (https://www.lambiek.net/artists/image/s/shapiro_allen/shapiro_harrychess.jpg).

That's "the "Harry Chess" comic.

To think that was 54 years ago ...

WooooSHHHHHHHHHH    This industry



Title: Re: 78 Olympia
Post by: beakdoctor on April 08, 2024, 03:22:05 PM

To think that was 54 years ago ...

WooooSHHHHHHHHHH    This industry


Well the MSM has most people thinking lynchings were a daily occurrence up until 1991 when Rodney Luther King shot all those people in the back of the bus.