Yes, as SCOTT mentioned above ....... I knew Reeves throughout his lifetime beginning around the time in which he was in his late teens.
I also Knew George Eifferman who was one of Steve's best friends.
Lots of old memories here ... enough to fill a book .... but here's a short version which may (or may not) be of interest.
It all started because Steve was an aquaintance of my dad's and I was a real young
when Steve game out of the id sitting on the water's edge of Lake Tamascal somewhere in the hills of Oakland.
Steve passed me by with a tap on my head saying. "Get big, kid!" and started a conversation with my father who was in great shape due to working as a lumber-jack "destroying" Redwoods in the Russian River area of Northern California approximately 70 miles or so NW of Oakland.
As time passed and I grew older I would run into Steve and his good friend, George Eifferman, and I'd simply say"Howdy" in passing little knowing that each of us would know each other better in the distant future.
Back in them god old days ..... an Oakland newspaper published an article about Steve as offered by his mother who claimed that Steve was somewhat exceptional because he "never had a cold nor a cavity".
Other than that .... I don't recall the rest of that article.
Back in rhe 1950's there was a summer resort on the Russian River called RIO NIDO which was the #1 vacation resort for families throughout Northern California ... and beyond!
On one summer weekend .... Steve and a friend who appeared to be what was known as a bulked up ODD-LIFTER (the term 'POWERLIFTER' was still non-existent)
joined up with hundreds (thousands??) of others at the nightly bon-fire among the Redwoods .... and for some unknown reason, Steve got sucker-punched and fell to his knees but as soon as he got back up, the 'puncher' had disappeared into the Redwoods.
My next run-in with Steve was a year or so later when I was dosing some heavy benches at the short lived American Health Studios and since Steve was there for a meeting which had yet to start , he offered a few words of encouragement.
And then Dilinger arrived along with Eifferman and
and the meeting started which led me to believe that it was an owner's meeting .... but the business closed down a few months later without an explanation and I never did ask Steve about it during future encounters.
Years later we invited Steve to participate as a special guest ....
More to follow if there is any interest.
Gotta head off to rob a casino!
Oh yea! Sorry, Scott! I'm bad at recalling dates and diets, so I don't recall what and how steve fine dined that week but ..... I do recall that he was pretty damn adverse about the use of roids back then .... and this was many years after his movie making years.
