WES, Did you ever meet or possibly even run into Doug Strohl or Gene Mozee?! Or maybe even Bill Starr??
I think you go back around the time they were leaders of the pack!
Gene was a good friend and he passed away recently. He was the last person I knew who kept track of and communicated with just about every bodybuilder on the scene during those good old days.
Ditto for good friend back then ..... Bill Starr who also passed away.
A lot of the best bodybuilding stories ever known by man were recited frequently Doug and Gene and Bill (as wall as a handful of others) but are now fading away and will soon be completely forgotten.
I have asked a few of the older heavy and frequent lifters to write it all down for prosperity but some have gotten too damn old to hold a pencil.
Some of the old day shit written on this GetBig Board might soon be a small bit of bodybuilding history information.
A few years back I was walking down the Santa Monica Beachwalk and noticed a small crowd of old gents sitting on the benches looking at old Muscle Beach photos in old, well worn albums.
The gents looking at these photos were the same guys that were in those photos and I spoke up and said, "You guys got a lot of history in your heads which should be written in a book!"
But that book was never written and I'm sure that most of them are no longer with us today.
So I strongly recommend that you write more stuff about them good old days and your involvement within the world of lifting heavy things.
The bodybuilding world/community was so entirely different way back then that no one under 40 can even begin to comprehend it.
SO instead... they develop stories that are entirely untrue but which they really wish they weren't.
Or something like that.
So ... Did Doug impress ya or ... did he not?
And did the stories that Gene or Bill told ya make ya laugh or make ya cry a bit?
Just remember that everything Gene or Bill ... and even Doug... may have told ya was the truth and beyond a reasonable doubt.
That's how it was back then. Bullshit was a rarity and gossip was greeted with a punch in the snozzola.
You are a part of old bodybuilding history and should wear that 'badge' with pride!
Thanks, Wes!
