Me and my buddy Harrishoppedon a Greyhound and were on our way to the contest...........it was mobbed when we got there.
Tons of huge and guys that thought they were huge all flexing and smelling of Ben Gay and shit !
We saw one animal sitting around before the show and we found out his name was Warren Frederick...............
.....a true fucking beast.

Once we saw him,and trust me he was fucking huge in person we knew this show was gonna be a good one.
All of a sudden we heard tons of people laughing,screaming,clapping,and just acting insane..................
..we looked over the veritable sea of people in back of us and saw a huge guy in sunglasses just towering over the mass of people who were following him..............we found out this was the then little known Lou Ferrigno.
Kids and people asked him questions and he compleely ignred them walking blankly through people like he was a striding Steve Reeves in a Herculues flick.
Compleely oblivious to anyone who approached him and he didn`t give a shit.
When he spotted Warren Fredericks who he knew from NYC hel ooked worried,then we heard that Leon Brown was entering the contest.
Leon weighed about a buck 80 but looked insane,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,he even beat out Franco for the Most Muscular trophy once which would not have been an easy task for anyone.
After seeing Leon,Lou went up on stage and stepped on the small raised plaform/podium type of thing they posed on back then.
He ccted like he was so huge that the podium might collapse under his immense weight so he announced to Ed that he wasn`t gonna compete and wasn`feeling well.
He wasn`t feeling well because he knew he would get smoked on that stage.
Leon Brown won the overall contest and took home all of the bodyparts trophys as well as the Most Muscular trophy.
Leon Brown became my inspiration that day and fate allowed me to compete with him at he Masters Nats some 30 or so years later.
We shot the shit for over an hour or so...........a true bb legend....while Lou was an insolent clod to everyone there.
No $20 pics back then with that attitude for sure.



1970 Mr East Coast - AAU
Overall Winner Mike Katz
Tall
1 Mike Katz
2 Ray Delaney
3 K Klez
4 Douglas Lowinger
5 Jerry Valente
Medium
1 Warren Frederick
2 Gordon Babb
3 Paul Thomas (1)
4 Ernie Miles
5 Chris Gordon
Short
1 Leon Brown
2 George Reo
3 Johnny Ianno
4 William Fuentes
5 Elvin Martinez
MY bad,Katz won heOverall show.