I dumped a couple hundred muscle magazines

[Grape Ape]

I would trade wes my junker bike.

He could deliver the magazines to you with it

[The Scott]

In the mid '60s through the early '80s s I bought and read bodybuilding magazines.  I   remember ordering my Weider Weight Gain 10,000 (or whatever it was) and finally picking it up from the health food shoppe.  When you are 6' 1" and 120lbs. and want muscles you tend to believe everything.

Imagine my disappointment upon hearing my dad tell me that it was pretty much overpriced Ovaltine.  Sugar.  A couple of years went buy and I would be buying TUBS of desiccated liver tablets and taking 60 or 70 per day.  That along with a ton of other pretty much useless crap.  I had a couple of stacks of magazines from Iron Man, Weider and Lurie and more.  I had tried Bob Kennedy's Muscle Mag International but didn't care for the last page of the magazine that was called "All of Us" and was some naked bodybuilder doing "tasteful" artsy poses with some fake Greek columns or by a pool.   

One day I looked at the magazines and decided I wasn't going to be a "Mr. Anything" and threw them all away.  I decided I would try school again as being a bodybuilder was not a way to make a good living and I wanted more than muscles.  I wanted a good job and to find and marry a good woman and have children of my own.  Hanging out at a gym wasn't going to get me anywhere. 

The magazines and the movies of the Sword & Sandals genre were inspirational and I have trained for decades because of them although not so much now, dammit! 

[The Scott]

He could deliver the magazines to you with it

Is that an "Electra" brand bicycle?

[mphgrove]

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

I tried that. One guy in Louisiana bought one magazine and the shipping cost more than the sale price. Dumped all of mine too.

[Grape Ape]

I tried that. One guy in Louisiana bought one magazine and the shipping cost more than the sale price. Dumped all of mine too.

PM Bay - he probably knows some clubs that would scatter these around the premises for the patrons to "warm up" with.

[wes]

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.

I called Peary Raders Iron Man...."Bibles Of Bodybuilding"....just great basicslly sound info.

[wes]

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

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

Probably closer to $26.50 

[wes]

I would trade wes my junker bike.

I`d take it, as it`s more than likely worth more than my car. 

[1Patrick]

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.

I thought Weider’s HQ was in Canada or California .Had to google it after your post lol.
And agree with IroNat , you’ve made it trough tough times ,respect!!

[oldtimer1]

I thought Weider’s HQ was in Canada or California .Had to google it after your post lol.
And agree with IroNat , you’ve made it trough tough times ,respect!!

He was located in New Jersey for a long time. He had a warehouse in Jersey city and his HQ in Union city, NJ. He then moved to California. Harold Poole, Dave Draper and a few others lived near Weider's place. His place in Union city was on 32nd Street.

[G_Thang]

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.

I would have paid for some SR covers and covered shipping.

1st Flex College cover and Mishay Santos IM cover.

[oldtimer1]

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.

It was a tough time. My father came to this country through Ellis Island with nothing. I came home from college and found my father in an alley on the side of my house. I did CPR on him till the cops arrived. He was the sole support of my mother and I. I worked nothing but minimum wage jobs in high school and college wondering what my future would hold. Suddenly the future looked very dark. Soon I would drop out of college my senior year to get to work.  It worked out in the end. I have a loving wife and family. I live in a big beautiful house that is soon to be paid off. I'm retired but doing well financially but I'm not rich. 

[IroNat]

It was a tough time. My father came to this country through Ellis Island with nothing. I came home from college and found my father in an alley on the side of my house. I did CPR on him till the cops arrived. He was the sole support of my mother and I. I worked nothing but minimum wage jobs in high school and college wondering what my future would hold. Suddenly the future looked very dark. Soon I would drop out of college my senior year to get to work.  It worked out in the end. I have a loving wife and family. I live in a big beautiful house that is soon to be paid off. I'm retired but doing well financially but I'm not rich. 

You are rich in the important things.

Also you are Rich. 

[wes]

It was a tough time. My father came to this country through Ellis Island with nothing. I came home from college and found my father in an alley on the side of my house. I did CPR on him till the cops arrived. He was the sole support of my mother and I. I worked nothing but minimum wage jobs in high school and college wondering what my future would hold. Suddenly the future looked very dark. Soon I would drop out of college my senior year to get to work.  It worked out in the end. I have a loving wife and family. I live in a big beautiful house that is soon to be paid off. I'm retired but doing well financially but I'm not rich. 

Good on you my friend.

[1Patrick]

He was located in New Jersey for a long time. He had a warehouse in Jersey city and his HQ in Union city, NJ. He then moved to California. Harold Poole, Dave Draper and a few others lived near Weider's place. His place in Union city was on 32nd Street.

Appreciated the answer and knowledge you are sharing.
When I’ve lived in East Rutherford  I used to train few times in Union city . Next to the movie theater used to be Bally’s .

[youandme]

I need to go through some of mine and throw the ones with sticky pages away. Ironman and MD’s fitness modeling spreads not guys in thongs, just needed to clarify on that.

[oldtimer1]

Appreciated the answer and knowledge you are sharing.
When I’ve lived in East Rutherford  I used to train few times in Union city . Next to the movie theater used to be Bally’s .

Then you know how urban Union city is then.  Use to have the distinction as the most densely populated city in the country. Now they can't get an accurate census count with all the foreigners. You can circle block after block for 20 minutes and not find a parking space. Rutherford has some expensive real estate being so close to Manhattan. The small houses go for a mint.

I spent the first 27 years of my life in Union city.  Then moved to Bergen county and now Ocean county. The first time I pulled into my driveway of my first house to park it was culture shock. I was use to parking blocks away from where I lived many times and never knew the luxury of parking by my front door. 

[dj181]

In the mid '60s through the early '80s s I bought and read bodybuilding magazines.  I   remember ordering my Weider Weight Gain 10,000 (or whatever it was) and finally picking it up from the health food shoppe.  When you are 6' 1" and 120lbs. and want muscles you tend to believe everything.

Imagine my disappointment upon hearing my dad tell me that it was pretty much overpriced Ovaltine.  Sugar.  A couple of years went buy and I would be buying TUBS of desiccated liver tablets and taking 60 or 70 per day.  That along with a ton of other pretty much useless crap.  I had a couple of stacks of magazines from Iron Man, Weider and Lurie and more.  I had tried Bob Kennedy's Muscle Mag International but didn't care for the last page of the magazine that was called "All of Us" and was some naked bodybuilder doing "tasteful" artsy poses with some fake Greek columns or by a pool.   

One day I looked at the magazines and decided I wasn't going to be a "Mr. Anything" and threw them all away.  I decided I would try school again as being a bodybuilder was not a way to make a good living and I wanted more than muscles.  I wanted a good job and to find and marry a good woman and have children of my own.  Hanging out at a gym wasn't going to get me anywhere. 

The magazines and the movies of the Sword & Sandals genre were inspirational and I have trained for decades because of them although not so much now, dammit! 

You were 120 at 6'1? Were you a long distance runner like me?

My normal weight ranged from 130-135 at 5'11 but I did bulk up to 160 my junior year in high school using the advice of the universal bodybuilding system featuring Brian Eastman, he had a great aesthetic physique, I ordered it from a marvel comic book I had

Later when I was 24 I bulked up from 144 to 190 in 10 weeks following JM Blakeley"s advice as he was training me and a friend, he told me some of the guys there accused me of.being of gear and asked him what he put me on, he said he put me on a 5000 calorie a day diet which was the truth

[1Patrick]

Then you know how urban Union city is then.  Use to have the distinction as the most densely populated city in the country. Now they can't get an accurate census count with all the foreigners. You can circle block after block for 20 minutes and not find a parking space. Rutherford has some expensive real estate being so close to Manhattan. The small houses go for a mint.

I spent the first 27 years of my life in Union city.  Then moved to Bergen county and now Ocean county. The first time I pulled into my driveway of my first house to park it was culture shock. I was use to parking blocks away from where I lived many times and never knew the luxury of parking by my front door.

You are 100% correct on everything. If you do not speak Spanish in Union city then you are stranger .
Parking was disaster all over places close by Lincoln tunnel  /Hoboken,Weehoken etc./
I’ve moved from Bergen county to Monmouth which is close by Ocean county .IMO central or South Jersey are totally different ,better places then North  Jersey .Even going to mall in Freehold was much better experience then one in Paramus .Paramus mall parking was clusterfuck .

[mphgrove]

I need to go through some of mine and throw the ones with sticky pages away. Ironman and MD’s fitness modeling spreads not guys in thongs, just needed to clarify on that.

Clarification overruled, generally on the very same page

[oldtimer1]

You are 100% correct on everything. If you do not speak Spanish in Union city then you are stranger .
Parking was disaster all over places close by Lincoln tunnel  /Hoboken,Weehoken etc./
I’ve moved from Bergen county to Monmouth which is close by Ocean county .IMO central or South Jersey are totally different ,better places then North  Jersey .Even going to mall in Freehold was much better experience then one in Paramus .Paramus mall parking was clusterfuck .

I'm pretty familiar with all 21 counties in NJ. I worked in Monmouth for 8 years after I retired. So many rich people live in Monmouth county like Springsteen, Governor Murphy and Bon Jovi.  Yes, Paramus was insane with the traffic. It seemed everyone in Manhattan was there.  Yes living in Central Jersey is a dream compared to North Jersey. I still miss Manhattan but I refuse to go there with liberal Democrats running the place.

[Grape Ape]

I'm pretty familiar with all 21 counties in NJ. I worked in Monmouth for 8 years after I retired. So many rich people live in Monmouth county like Springsteen, Governor Murphy and Bon Jovi.  Yes, Paramus was insane with the traffic. It seemed everyone in Manhattan was there.  Yes living in Central Jersey is a dream compared to North Jersey. I still miss Manhattan but I refuse to go there with liberal Democrats running the place.

I grew up in central jersey - 7th grade through HS.

[Lartinos]

I grew up in central jersey - 7th grade through HS.

I once went to a wedding in Jersey and they played a lot of Bon Jovi while singing along to it.

I’m from across the river originally so it was interesting to see.

[wes]

I once went to a wedding in Jersey and they played a lot of Bon Jovi while singing along to it.

I’m from across the river originally so it was interesting to see.

I was in a BB contest in Amboy Park N.J......won 4 trophies that day, but was very disappointed.... Springsteen and Southside Johnny were no shows!   

[Humble Narcissist]

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.

Yes, I had those along with "Psychoblast" and many others. When I opened my mail in front of my mom and pulled "Savage Reps" out of the package my mom thought it said "savage sex" and freaked out!