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« Reply #25 on: April 12, 2008, 05:50:47 PM »
Excellent. Always cool to see rare Arnold shots.

I knew some people on here would appreciate 'em, like GoneAway and Moosejay.

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« Reply #26 on: April 12, 2008, 05:51:46 PM »
Pollux again comes through  8) I'd bet that anything that Pollux doesn't know about Arnold is not worth knowing.

Tru dat!  ;D

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« Reply #27 on: April 12, 2008, 05:53:11 PM »
Pollux, after all the pictures I've seen, I feel Arnold's best combo of size and shape was at the 74 Olympia. Even his legs were much bigger and all around he looked fuller and thicker, with good cuts, than ever before. Would you agree?

Absolutely! But my favorite condition of Arnold was at the '73 Olympia.

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« Reply #28 on: April 12, 2008, 05:59:50 PM »
Wag Bennett and Arnold in front of Wag's gym then...


And what it looks like today...





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« Reply #29 on: April 12, 2008, 06:02:05 PM »
Yes, Pollux...much appreciated.

Wag's Gym...I like the lamp. It's still a gym???

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« Reply #30 on: April 12, 2008, 06:03:21 PM »
The area where the famous posing session took place as seen on the DVD Arnold: The Early Years...



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« Reply #31 on: April 12, 2008, 06:05:07 PM »
Yes, Pollux...much appreciated.

Wag's Gym...I like the lamp. It's still a gym???

Yes, it's still a gym, and apparently STILL looks the same from the inside from when Arnold trained there!

Wag did expand it a bit though.

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« Reply #32 on: April 12, 2008, 06:33:25 PM »
Pollux...about a year ago I read in MM or some other mag about Kurt Marnul selling some of the actual equipment Arnold starting his training on.

It apparently went to a gym or museum in another country...you remember the details?

Marnul had a cheesy car with blown up photographs of him and Arnold from 40 years ago painted/embossed on it....

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« Reply #33 on: April 12, 2008, 06:54:16 PM »
Pollux...about a year ago I read in MM or some other mag about Kurt Marnul selling some of the actual equipment Arnold starting his training on.

It apparently went to a gym or museum in another country...you remember the details?

Marnul had a cheesy car with blown up photographs of him and Arnold from 40 years ago painted/embossed on it....

I know what you're talking about. It was FLEX magazine July 2007 issue.

In a nutshell...Kurt sold the equipments as well as old photographs and training notebooks for $66,000.00 to a man who says he was gonna store them in a Schwarzenegger-like museum in Romania. Kurt sold to be able to buy modern machines.

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« Reply #34 on: April 12, 2008, 08:33:32 PM »
Thanks, Pollux

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« Reply #35 on: April 12, 2008, 09:24:52 PM »
the only thing Arnold ever did with a 500 pound bench was watch someone else do one or read about one.

On the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson years ago Arnold stated his best lifts for bench squat and maybe dead, someone should see if it is on Youtube.....

He said his best bench was 540#, and with his chest that is very believable.

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« Reply #36 on: April 12, 2008, 09:34:18 PM »

Didn't Rnold supposedly bone Diane Bennett? Does anyone have a pic of her?

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« Reply #37 on: April 12, 2008, 09:36:40 PM »
I can't imagine how many pics were taken of him throughout his life. wow
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« Reply #38 on: April 12, 2008, 10:24:32 PM »
I knew some people on here would appreciate 'em, like GoneAway and Moosejay.

definately! i see ur making good use of IronAge and the "Arnold pics" thread. :)

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« Reply #39 on: April 13, 2008, 05:20:33 AM »
definately! i see ur making good use of IronAge and the "Arnold pics" thread. :)

Of course! They use my pics from my personal collection that I post on Getbig, so I figure why the hell not!  ;D

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« Reply #40 on: April 13, 2008, 05:23:24 AM »
I know what you're talking about. It was FLEX magazine July 2007 issue.

In a nutshell...Kurt sold the equipments as well as old photographs and training notebooks for $66,000.00 to a man who says he was gonna store them in a Schwarzenegger-like museum in Romania. Kurt sold to be able to buy modern machines.

Too bad Marnul could not hold on to them....I would have.

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« Reply #41 on: April 13, 2008, 05:31:22 AM »
Thanks a lot, i have never seen these image, I would bet you cannot even find them on that italian Arnold webpage.
Thanks again.

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« Reply #42 on: April 13, 2008, 05:34:38 AM »
Didn't Rnold supposedly bone Diane Bennett? Does anyone have a pic of her?

Here's what she looked like then...


Dianne on the left...



And what she looks like today with hubby Wag...

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« Reply #43 on: April 13, 2008, 05:37:11 AM »
Too bad Marnul could not hold on to them....I would have.

I could see why Kurt would get rid of them, but damn! These are the very machines that Arnold used when he was an "acorn".  :(

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« Reply #45 on: April 13, 2008, 06:53:35 AM »
it's quite amazing how many connections and how much exposure Arnold was getting from as early as '65 and '66. the guy obviously had something special mentally and physically to attract 'buyers' so to speak, of which they would use him to their benefit and vice verca. Wag, Weiders, Park, who else?

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« Reply #46 on: April 13, 2008, 07:41:24 AM »
it's quite amazing how many connections and how much exposure Arnold was getting from as early as '65 and '66. the guy obviously had something special mentally and physically to attract 'buyers' so to speak, of which they would use him to their benefit and vice verca. Wag, Weiders, Park, who else?

I was thinking the same thing. From the moment he started lifting weights, they obviously say something special in Arnold for him to have so much exposure starting with Albert Busek's Kraft Sport Revue.

There are just so many very, very early pictures of Arnold!

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« Reply #47 on: April 13, 2008, 07:43:29 AM »
On the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson years ago Arnold stated his best lifts for bench squat and maybe dead, someone should see if it is on Youtube.....

He said his best bench was 540#, and with his chest that is very believable.
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« Reply #48 on: April 13, 2008, 07:45:41 AM »
I was thinking the same thing. From the moment he started lifting weights, they obviously say something special in Arnold for him to have so much exposure starting with Albert Busek's Kraft Sport Revue.

There are just so many very, very early pictures of Arnold!
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« Reply #49 on: April 13, 2008, 10:07:34 AM »