I dumped a couple hundred muscle magazines

[OlympiaGym]

A couple hundred muscle magazines (thousand?) that I had in my garage at my town’s recycling center this morning. I started buying them in 1983, but would get back issues from as far back as the 70s in the second hand bookstore when I was a dopey kid. I bought them all every month through the 1990s. The workers were definitely thinking I was some sick gay pervert.

[Sandrock]

A couple hundred muscle magazines (thousand?) that I had in my garage at my town’s recycling center this morning. I started buying them in 1983, but would get back issues from as far back as the 70s in the second hand bookstore when I was a dopey kid. I bought them all every month through the 1990s. The workers were definitely thinking I was some sick gay pervert.

.......So did you get any action from them?

[IroNat]

You should have sold them or given them to a collector.

[OlympiaGym]

.......So did you get any action from them?

Haha. It was embarrassing
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[OlympiaGym]

You should have sold them or given them to a collector.

Too much work to sell them for the likely return and you’d be surprised at some of the other stuff that I’ve tried to give away recently and found no takers for.

[Taffin]

Too much work to sell them for the likely return and you’d be surprised at some of the other stuff that I’ve tried to give away recently and found no takers for.

DVDs?

[1Patrick]

You should have sold them or given them to a collector.

Exactly .Even if only for some gas and lunch money still better then just tossing them. There has  to be meat head collectors who would take them

[OlympiaGym]

DVDs?

Those are next for the trash dump. I don’t even think we have a DVD player anymore.

[AbrahamG]

DVDs?

LMFAO.

[visualizeperfection]

What’s OP going to jackoff too now?

[Grape Ape]

A couple hundred muscle magazines (thousand?) that I had in my garage at my town’s recycling center this morning. I started buying them in 1983, but would get back issues from as far back as the 70s in the second hand bookstore when I was a dopey kid. I bought them all every month through the 1990s. The workers were definitely thinking I was some sick gay pervert.

funk51 definitely taking the redeye to said recycling center as we speak

[visualizeperfection]

funk51 definitely taking the redeye to said recycling center as we speak

I don’t believe public transportation stops at the recycling center at this hour. 

[Ron]

I still have over 2,000 magazines stored.... one day will bring them down when people have no idea what a 'magazine' is

[wes]

Got rid of all mine when I was drinking heavy.

I had tons of Flex,old Peary Raders Iron Man,Muscle Digest,Muscle Builder/Power,Mr. America,Muscle-Up,Strength & Health,Muscular Development,Reg Park Journal, and many more.....needed money to drink so SOLD them to my gym owner for $25.00.....when I cleaned up my act and started training again the mags were strewn all over the place....ripped to shit etc.etc.

When I gave them to him they were in pristine condition............wha t a waste  of many years....wish I never started drinking.

But that chapter of my life has been closed for decades so fuck it......still wish the prick would have lent me 25 dollars instead of taking advantage of me....but I wouldn`t have paid him back even if he did the fuckhead. 

[wes]

I still have over 2,000 magazines stored.... one day will bring them down when people have no idea what a 'magazine' is

Most don`t know these days anyway Ron....show a kid a rotary phone and he has no clue what it is.....ask him if he ever played hide and seek as a kid and they stare blankly at you. 

[Humble Narcissist]

Too much work to sell them for the likely return and you’d be surprised at some of the other stuff that I’ve tried to give away recently and found no takers for.

Same here. Dumped hundreds years ago after seeing them go for pennies on Ebay. Not worth the effort.

[wes]

Same here. Dumped hundreds years ago after seeing them go for pennies on Ebay. Not worth the effort.

Just for nostalgias sake not long ago I bought "Beef It"...."Reps" and a slew of other BB books....no magazines, but over 20 or more books.

The pics are more inspiring than anything seen today.

[BayGBM]

A couple hundred muscle magazines (thousand?) that I had in my garage at my town’s recycling center this morning. I started buying them in 1983, but would get back issues from as far back as the 70s in the second hand bookstore when I was a dopey kid. I bought them all every month through the 1990s. The workers were definitely thinking I was some sick gay pervert.

If you added up the cover/purchase price of each magazine how much had you spent on the whole collection?🤑

[joswift]

Got rid of all mine when I was drinking heavy.

I had tons of Flex,old Peary Raders Iron Man,Muscle Digest,Muscle Builder/Power,Mr. America,Muscle-Up,Strength & Health,Muscular Development,Reg Park Journal, and many more.....needed money to drink so SOLD them to my gym owner for $25.00.....when I cleaned up my act and started training again the mags were strewn all over the place....ripped to shit etc.etc.

When I gave them to him they were in pristine condition............wha t a waste  of many years....wish I never started drinking.

But that chapter of my life has been closed for decades so fuck it......still wish the prick would have lent me 25 dollars instead of taking advantage of me....but I wouldn`t have paid him back even if he did the fuckhead. 

mopping sick up?   

[oldtimer1]

I lived close to Weider's HQ in Jersey when I was a kid. In the mid 1960's when I walked past the place I would stare in the window of all the equipment for sale and supplements. One day I asked her if I could go in. The smell of the freshly painted benches and supplements was strong. I was always the smallest kid in every grade. I was maybe 8 years old. The workers would give stacks of expired magazines. Even saw Joe Weider one day.  Taking them home I thought there was magic in lifting. Thought if I could get my hands on weights I could be a muscle guy too.

I had a ridiculous amount of magazines that I got for free and those I bought from the 60's, 70's and 80's.  When my father suddenly died my mother was forced to sell the house and we moved into a small apartment. I threw a huge portion of the mags in the garbage. In a few years what I had remaining during college I was embarrassed by at the time. They ended up in pile on the curb for garbage. Wish I had them now. For some reason the only ones I kept were the old Iron man magazines. I have a huge collection sitting in a big container in my basement that I never look at.

[wes]

mopping sick up?   

[funk51]

funk51 definitely taking the redeye to said recycling center as we speak

    If I was close by, I probably would, of course I'm mostly stuck in the 60's.

[IroNat]

I lived close to Weider's HQ in Jersey when I was a kid. In the mid 1960's when I walked past the place I would stare in the window of all the equipment for sale and supplements. One day I asked her if I could go in. The smell of the freshly painted benches and supplements was strong. I was always the smallest kid in every grade. I was maybe 8 years old. The workers would give stacks of expired magazines. Even saw Joe Weider one day.  Taking them home I thought there was magic in lifting. Thought if I could get my hands on weights I could be a muscle guy too.

I had a ridiculous amount of magazines that I got for free and those I bought from the 60's, 70's and 80's.  When my father suddenly died my mother was forced to sell the house and we moved into a small apartment. I threw a huge portion of the mags in the garbage. In a few years what I had remaining during college I was embarrassed by at the time. They ended up in pile on the curb for garbage. Wish I had them now. For some reason the only ones I kept were the old Iron man magazines. I have a huge collection sitting in a big container in my basement that I never look at.

Glad you made it through that period.  Must have been very difficult for you and especially your mom.
You stayed strong and made it.  This proves you are a winner.  Many (most) would have fallen.

I had a subscription to Ironman for a few years back in the 80s.
Ironman was the best mag in my opinion.

[Grape Ape]

Got rid of all mine when I was drinking heavy.

I had tons of Flex,old Peary Raders Iron Man,Muscle Digest,Muscle Builder/Power,Mr. America,Muscle-Up,Strength & Health,Muscular Development,Reg Park Journal, and many more.....needed money to drink so SOLD them to my gym owner for $25.00.....when I cleaned up my act and started training again the mags were strewn all over the place....ripped to shit etc.etc.

It's a shame you didn't hold on to them.....

.....they'd probably worth at least $26 now.

[IroNat]

It's a shame you didn't hold on to them.....

.....they'd probably worth at least $26 now.

I would trade wes my junker bike.