You hit the nail on the head GH15. If you read a lot of the articles in the old magazines, the old pros always used to talk about visualization being very important. Thinking of the body like a piece of marble, and sculpting it to perfection the same way an artist would. Bodybuilders were artists back then, and their bodies were like living statuary. And they knew how to pose properly to show off that perfection.
Contrast that with most of todays pros. Branch would be a good example...