OLD DAY vs NEW DAY BB CONTESTS

[stuntmovie]

Next up ..... Old bodybuilding magazines.

Por no or no porno !

You decide!

I'll start in the late 1800's.

[wes]

WES,  regarding Legendary names!

I've had the opportunity to meet and greet and train and work with the vast majority of of these so called Legendary individuals as well as those behind the scenes who were actually more legendary than those of legendary renown today.

All in all.... it's been an enjoyable experience,,,,, the good experiences as well as  the bad .

TYhat must be an awesome feeling Bill.

I`ve known and trained with some of the more modern big names but I can`t compare notes with you by a long shot.


Good thread by the way.

[stuntmovie]

WES, You mentioned Joe Ugolik  and some other I have\known at various times on my lifetime.

I would bet ya a dollar to a doughnut that you and I are the only two individuals on the GetBig Board who have ever met or possibly even ever heard of the name Joe Ugolik.

Long tory there which I'll make an attempt at later.

Is he still around?

[stuntmovie]

SHAPE, I did meet REEVES many times while we were both younger ad also had the opportunity to work with him a couple of years before he passed away.

One meeting occurred when he was real real young and way before he became Hercules..

Reeves got knocked down but not out that evening.  Most likely one of those rare occurences back then when someone throws an unwarranted punch at an unexpecting individual and runs off someplace.

Then yeas later, once again before he was Herk, he stopped and watched me do some heavy benching while he was waiting for another gym member and gave me a thumbs up for my efforts.

And many years later he was a special guest at an event I was promoting.

So I had the opportunity to get to know him pretty well.

And eventually I became a good friend with Steve's good friend ... George Eifferman. But that another long story for a later episode.

Thanks for joining in.

[illuminati]

WES, You mentioned Joe Ugolik  and some other I have\known at various times on my lifetime.

I would bet ya a dollar to a doughnut that you and I are the only two individuals on the GetBig Board who have ever met or possibly even ever heard of the name Joe Ugolik.

Long tory there which I'll make an attempt at later.

Is he still around?

Joe ugolik -- was he not in pumping iron --/ Mike Katz training partner.
IIRC. 

[TheShape.]

SHAPE, I did meet REEVES many times while we were both younger ad also had the opportunity to work with him a couple of years before he passed away.

One meeting occurred when he was real real young and way before he became Hercules. Most likely one of those rare occurences back then when someone throws an unwarranted punch at an unexpecting individual and runs off someplace.

Reeves got knocked down but not out that evening.

Then yeas later, once again before he was Herk, he stopped and watched me do some heavy benching while he was waiting for another gym member and gave me a thumbs up for my efforts.

And many years later he was a special guest at an event I was promoting.

So I had the opportunity to get to know him pretty well.

And eventually I became a good friend with Steve's good friend ... George Eifferman. But that another long story for a later episode.

Thanks for joining in.

That's really something, you were in the right place at the right time. I was born too late for the classic B.B. era, now it's a freak show for the mentally ill.

[wes]

WES, You mentioned Joe Ugolik  and some other I have\known at various times on my lifetime.

I would bet ya a dollar to a doughnut that you and I are the only two individuals on the GetBig Board who have ever met or possibly even ever heard of the name Joe Ugolik.

Long tory there which I'll make an attempt at later.

Is he still around?

Yup,I also knew his brothers Stan and Nick who also trained and competed.

[wes]

Joe ugolik -- was he not in pumping iron --/ Mike Katz training partner.
IIRC. 

Yes he was..............beat Ray Mentzer back ion the day.


I was also in PI.................my claim to fame albeit just in a crowd scene. 

[funk51]

WES, You mentioned Joe Ugolik  and some other I have\known at various times on my lifetime.

I would bet ya a dollar to a doughnut that you and I are the only two individuals on the GetBig Board who have ever met or possibly even ever heard of the name Joe Ugolik.

Long tory there which I'll make an attempt at later.

Is he still around?

         he's the guy who trained with mike katz and coach in the garage gym.will look for photo. l knew a guy who trained with them once..there... that's all he did drive around the country looking for different gyms to train in.

[funk51]

         he's the guy who trained with mike katz and coach in the garage gym.will look for photo. l knew a guy who trained with them once..there... that's all he did drive around the country looking for different gyms to train in.

here's pic katz  coach and joe u

[wes]

Yup,kid had a great build.

[stuntmovie]

Somewhere up above I mentioned old BB magazines!

And here's the rest of that story.

But I gotta go back to the late 1890's to commence with the basic facts.

Someone I knew once upon a time 'borrowed' a set of bound Physical Culture magazines that were actually printed in the late 1800's.

If I can recall right, they were physical culture magazines as the term 'bodybuilder' was probably not even known at that time.

For some forgotten reason they came into my possession for a couple of months before I managed to present them to one of  the current day, bodybuilding magazines owners.

They were full of information about the use of electricity as a beneficial means to a healthy livestyle (Hail, Marty!) and body muscles were usually mentioned but  never shown .... except for a few occasions when an in-shape individual had a picture taken wearing a fig leaf. (A very taboo ocurrance way back then.)

Those magazines are probably worth a fortune today.

ANd then sometime around the mid 1950's bodybuilding magazines seemed to become popular because there were a good number of them on the newspaper racks.

The best of them were from Weider and Louri and Hoffman and  Mabel and Perry Raider. (Sorry if some spelling is incorrect.)

I had the pleasure of meeting each of them and can say that Mabel and Perry were the best of the 'breed' by far while Hoffman and Louri and the Weiders were always at odds with one another.

Hoffman was mainly interested in Olympic Lifting while Dan and Ben and Joe were inclined to cover the muscle aspect within the game of lifting heavy things and Mable and Perry seemed to be right down the middle and cover anything that was weight lifting related  .... muscles, strength, and the kitchen sink.

But not all was clean and shiny for the eyes of the good old American public which was still hanging on to the end of the semi-Victorian age. (One foot in and one foot out just before falling in entirely.)

There were other publications that catered to individuals who had to look way high up on that magazine rack ... way out of the reach of youngsters and those who were somewhat more Victorian inclined.

Those magazines were the early bb porn material of the day ,,,, but definitely not the porn as we know or visualize it today.

More to follow....

[wes]

[stuntmovie]

WES, Nothing appears on that last post you made above!