Kevin,
I believe the lady who ran the Muscle House By The Sea was Joy Crettaz, not Pudgy Stockton.
Joy wrote a letter to Muscle Builder in July 1965 p 5, and she and Weider had been corresponding.
She mentioned Reeves was with her (at the House) in 1948 and 1949.
Joe, wasn't the "Muscle House By The Sea" run (at least for a time) by Mae West?
Among the BB'ers who were part of Mae West's Las Vegas show/troupe of BB'ers, in the early-mid 1950's, were George Eifermann, Mickey Hargity (before his involvement with Jayne Mansfield) and Chuck Krauser. As I recall, Chuck Krauser "punched-out" Mickey over some disagreement.
George Eifermann later toured the public schools in the country and came by my HS in Nashville, TN. He put on a demo. at my school where he spoke, posed, demonstrated his flexibility, and played his trumpet while simultaneously one-arm pressing a barbell overhead. He looked fabulous and this was back in the time when all the HS coaches tried to tell us that lifting weights would make you "musclebound"!
For a young, skinny, impressionable, teenager just beginning to weight-train, George was a tremendous inspiration to me and convinced me that my coaches were full of sh*t when it came to knowledge about weight-training!
By the way, one woman of that era (the 1950's/1960's) who was a true pioneer of strongwomen was the great (and all but now forgotten) Joan Rhodes. If you can ever see/get-ahold-of a movie called "Ecco", made in the mid-1960's, there was a segment in the movie showing Joan's strongwoman/nightclub act in London where she sang, danced, and did various strength feats like bending iron bars, etc. She had a gorgeous figure and really combined feminine beauty, sex appeal. and physical strength!