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Muscle Beach

    This book tells the story of the original Muscle Beach in Santa Monica California in the 1940's.  Many of the great early bodybuilders are here, such as Jack LaLanne, Joe Gold, Les Stockton, Pudgy Stockton and Vic Tanny.  Muscle Beach has new material about the originals on the beach and rare photographs from this wonderful time in bodybuilding history.

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Remembering Muscle Beach

   Yet another book with great photos and descriptions of the era of Muscle Beach in Santa Monica California. Written by Bonnie Hearn and Harold Zinkin, who was the first Mr. California and inventor of the Universal gym machine.   

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Sandow the Magnificent

    This book shows the early history of bodybuilding by detailing the life of Eugen Sandow, who many consider the first bodybuilder.  I own this book and can highly recommend it, especially since it is one of the few scholarly written history books in the field of bodybuilding.

 

 

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