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Title: new book to my collection. anyone collecting vintage books and magazines?
Post by: muscle matters on February 27, 2022, 03:27:05 PM
knowledge is power.
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Post by: bLuEeYes on February 27, 2022, 03:34:25 PM
I thought that was Bruce Lee in the cover.

 ;D
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Post by: Rambone on February 27, 2022, 03:34:57 PM
Take your gay porn to the Y board, fruitcake.
Title: Re: new book to my collection. anyone collecting vintage books and magazines?
Post by: Matt on February 27, 2022, 03:36:21 PM
Zane looks great there.

I have one or two of Robert Kennedy's books like that. He did a series in the 1980s.

Another good one is "Bodybuilding For Men" by Oscar Heidenstam:

(https://www.gmv.com.au/images/Books/B-0298-lg.jpg)

https://www.gmv.com.au/default.asp?pageid=products&template=PRODUCTCAT&catid=11&prodid=2960&site=1

I bought that at the Salvation Army nearby for $0.50, in 1999 [before I started working out - but while my interest was starting to grow].
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Post by: Fortress on February 27, 2022, 03:37:51 PM
I have a few boxes of Playboys I’d enthusiastically employee for my teenage (eighties) wack sessions.

A bunch of “special editions”, too.

Fantastic stuff.
Title: Re: new book to my collection. anyone collecting vintage books and magazines?
Post by: MCWAY on February 27, 2022, 03:38:21 PM
knowledge is power.

I have a few:

Mass!
Cuts!
Joe Weider's Ultimate Bodybuilding
IronMan's Ultimate Guide to Bodybuilding Nutrition
IronMan's Ultimate Guide to Building Muscle Mass
IronMan's Ultimate Bodybuilding Encyclopedia
Bodybuilding: The Weider Approach
Sports Supplement Review: 3rd Issue
Sports Supplement Review: 4th Issue

The IronMan books costs me $5 ($4 of which was shipping); same went for Mass and Cuts, and the 4th issue of Sports Supplement Review.

The Weider books were $1.50 each, on the clearance rack of a local book store, near my kids' college.

The 3rd Issue of Sports Supplement Review was a Christmas present from 1997.
Title: Re: new book to my collection. anyone collecting vintage books and magazines?
Post by: Cook on February 27, 2022, 03:42:01 PM
Here is a book I bought about 30 years ago and a vhs tape I have nothing to play it on
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Post by: Matt on February 27, 2022, 03:44:37 PM
The IronMan books costs me $5 ($4 of which was shipping); same went for Mass and Cuts, and the 4th issue of Sports Supplement Review.

Lol, what decade was that?

Gas was $5:03 USD per gallon here two days ago. It has since dropped to $4.70 USD per gallon, which is about where it's tolerable to me, but way above the tolerable range for many others.

https://www.tbnewswatch.com/gas-prices

$1 for a book is very cheap. Was that a promotion?
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Post by: Matt on February 27, 2022, 03:45:58 PM
Here is a book I bought about 30 years ago and a vhs tape I have nothing to play it on
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=677540.0;attach=1352990;image)

That was the Robert Kennedy series I was talking about.

I think he had several in that series. Probably 2-5 of them, but I'm not sure.

I'm almost certain I had another one - not the Mohamed Makkawy [?] cover shown.
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Post by: wes on February 27, 2022, 05:04:09 PM
I had a veritable ton of those books and tons of muscle magazines.....sold them years ago on E-Bay....I think I still have a few of the real old Iron Man mags when they were printed in the smaller size stashed in a tote somewhere.

I have a 1974 issue of Muscular Development with my name in it.....was from the results of my first powerlifting meet,and a few of the more recent Iron Man copies that have a couple of my articles published in them.

I went from having hundreds of books to about 8.
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Post by: The Scott on February 27, 2022, 05:09:50 PM
Robert Kennedy's Muscle Mag International was a bit "weird" when it first started.  The last page of the mag was called, "All Of Us" and featured male nudes as "art".  Too weird. Too fuckin' weird.

He was all about the Reeves type of physique and later on started in with his "Beef It!" photos.  Fookin' size queen.  One of the most highlarious of all bodybuilders featured in that magazine was one named Wilfried Dubbels.  A good physique but for some reason his photos made most of us at the gym laugh uncontrollably. Posed like a tall version of weird Vince Gironda.

Kennedy didn't so much as have skeletons in his closet as he did himself. Just weird.
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Post by: Fortress on February 27, 2022, 05:21:56 PM
Robert Kennedy's Muscle Mag International was a bit "weird" when it first started.  The last page of the mag was called, "All Of Us" and featured male nudes as "art".  Too weird. Too fuckin' weird.

He was all about the Reeves type of physique and later on started in with his "Beef It!" photos.  Fookin' size queen.  One of the most highlarious of all bodybuilders featured in that magazine was one named Wilfried Dubbels.  A good physique but for some reason his photos made most of us at the gym laugh uncontrollably. Posed like a tall version of weird Vince Gironda.

Kennedy didn't so much as have skeletons in his closet as he did himself. Just weird.

Bob was a good friend. We had some moments, but I loved the guy.

One of the most colourful characters I’ve ever known. Eccentric. A true original.

I miss him.
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Post by: The Scott on February 27, 2022, 05:27:49 PM
Bob was a good friend. We had some moments, but I loved the guy.

One of the most colourful characters I’ve ever known. Eccentric. A true original.

I miss him.

Probably a nice guy but I wondered why in the heck he would put nekkid menz photos in the back of the magazine.  Schmoe and tell, I suppose?
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Post by: Moontrane on February 27, 2022, 05:30:34 PM
Robert Kennedy's Muscle Mag International was a bit "weird" when it first started.  The last page of the mag was called, "All Of Us" and featured male nudes as "art".  Too weird. Too fuckin' weird.

He was all about the Reeves type of physique and later on started in with his "Beef It!" photos.  Fookin' size queen.  One of the most highlarious of all bodybuilders featured in that magazine was one named Wilfried Dubbels.  A good physique but for some reason his photos made most of us at the gym laugh uncontrollably. Posed like a tall version of weird Vince Gironda.

Kennedy didn't so much as have skeletons in his closet as he did himself. Just weird.

Vince Girona's columns were hilarious: "What are you, stupid?"
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Post by: Fortress on February 27, 2022, 05:38:59 PM
Probably a nice guy but I wondered why in the heck he would put nekkid menz photos in the back of the magazine.  Schmoe and tell, I suppose?

He was well aware of the phaggot angle in the successful marketing of a bodybuilding publication.
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Post by: wes on February 27, 2022, 05:42:04 PM
Great magazine...I loved it......I also loved Muscle Digest.

It really improved quickly after the early issues.
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Post by: Matt on February 27, 2022, 06:07:31 PM
Bob was a good friend. We had some moments, but I loved the guy.

One of the most colourful characters I’ve ever known. Eccentric. A true original.

I miss him.

It's sad that within one year from the time of his death, with his wife Tosca Reno taking over the magazine, that it folded.

I heard there was more to that story. Apparently, they lost the MuscleTech contract, which was massive - that represented something like $2 million in lost revenue alone.

In his last article in the magazine, Robert attributed excessive suntanning as the reason for his skin cancer. That seems plausible to me. Sad story. RIP.
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Post by: Fortress on February 27, 2022, 06:09:25 PM
It's sad that within one year from the time of his death, with his wife Tosca Reno taking over the magazine, that it folded.

I heard there was more to that story. Apparently, they lost the MuscleTech contract, which was massive - that represented something like $2 million in lost revenue alone.

In his last article in the magazine, Robert attributed excessive suntanning as the reason for his skin cancer. That seems plausible to me. Sad story. RIP.

Tosca.

What a piece of work.
Title: Re: new book to my collection. anyone collecting vintage books and magazines?
Post by: Matt on February 27, 2022, 06:18:38 PM
Tosca.

What a piece of work.

Was she a gold digger? He was 61 and she was 40 when they initially got together, which seemed appropriate enough. It definitely seemed to me that he did more for her than the reverse though.
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Post by: Fortress on February 27, 2022, 06:23:34 PM
Was she a gold digger? He was 61 and she was 40 when they initially got together, which seemed appropriate enough. It definitely seemed to me that he did more for her than the reverse though.

Absolutely she is.

Her office at the MMI offices was like a hippy-dippy spa retreat.

Any celebrity she had, for the short time she had it, was 100 percent because of Bob.

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Post by: ElPolloSalmonello on February 27, 2022, 06:38:22 PM
knowledge is power.

Loved him in Rocky
Title: Re: new book to my collection. anyone collecting vintage books and magazines?
Post by: The Scott on February 27, 2022, 06:55:06 PM
He was well aware of the phaggot angle in the successful marketing of a bodybuilding publication.

Sounds feasible.  Unsavory to me, but feasible.  As for his gold digger wife?  FTB!
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Post by: GigantorX on February 27, 2022, 07:08:20 PM
When my dad died many moons ago I took his collection of original Dune novels (dust covers in Good condition) great cover art. Worth a bit too.
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Post by: Grape Ape on February 27, 2022, 07:09:46 PM
He was well aware of the phaggot angle in the successful marketing of a bodybuilding publication.


Great magazine...I loved it......

Outed
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Post by: wes on February 27, 2022, 07:45:31 PM

Outed

You ass.  LOL  ;D
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Post by: MCWAY on February 27, 2022, 08:07:36 PM
Lol, what decade was that?

The decade was the 2010s. I got a lot of stuff cheap back then from Amazon, mainly the IronMan books came from Amazon, and other stuff including $8 for the 1991 WBF Championship on VHS (Yes, I still have a VCR).


Gas was $5:03 USD per gallon here two days ago. It has since dropped to $4.70 USD per gallon, which is about where it's tolerable to me, but way above the tolerable range for many others.

https://www.tbnewswatch.com/gas-prices

$1 for a book is very cheap. Was that a promotion?

Nope. I was visiting my older kids when they were in college. We went to a bookstore (McKay Books) to find some books for their classes. That's where I found the Weider books on clearance. Joe Weider's Ultimate Bodybuilding was $1.50; so was Bodybuilding: The Weider Approach.

Here is a book I bought about 30 years ago and a vhs tape I have nothing to play it on

Hit Goodwill (or some other thrift store); you can get a VCR for $5. That's how I got to watch the 1991 WBF championship, my old Lee Haney's Mass Fuel kit tape, and all the episodes of "American Muscle" that I recorded back the 90s when I was in college (or, at least, home for Christmas and summer break).
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Post by: bhank on February 27, 2022, 08:15:03 PM
Yeah I got my first edition English print version of Don Quixote around here somewhere might be worth a few bucks

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Post by: bhank on February 27, 2022, 08:22:34 PM
Emerson Twain Poe Byron treasure island gulliverse travels Shakespeare Robin Hood usually suspects have some more modern early edition stuff on my other book shelve
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Post by: muscle matters on February 27, 2022, 09:30:14 PM
part of my collection.

Title: Re: new book to my collection. anyone collecting vintage books and magazines?
Post by: muscle matters on February 27, 2022, 09:33:51 PM
Emerson Twain Poe Byron treasure island gulliverse travels Shakespeare Robin Hood usually suspects have some more modern early edition stuff on my other book shelve

I love literature, especially English literature, Victorian literature.

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Post by: Rambone on February 28, 2022, 02:21:44 AM
part of my collection.

Can I borrow “Universal Hunks” (for research purposes)?
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Post by: wes on February 28, 2022, 03:01:21 AM
Emerson Twain Poe Byron treasure island gulliverse travels Shakespeare Robin Hood usually suspects have some more modern early edition stuff on my other book shelve
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Post by: Taffin on February 28, 2022, 03:28:11 AM
I have a few boxes of Playboys I’d enthusiastically employee for my teenage (eighties) wack sessions.

A bunch of “special editions”, too.

Fantastic stuff.

I bet there's plenty of 'fur' in those!  (I know you're a big fan ;D)
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Post by: funk51 on February 28, 2022, 07:02:37 AM
   http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=453058.0
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Post by: SGT BARNES on February 28, 2022, 02:01:38 PM
"universal hunks"

brutal self outing