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Rimini 1989.

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Poor ficus.


Mr Tom Platz aka The Golden Eagle



Jeff Everson


Handshake with Troy Zuccolotto





Ok, but where's Hans?



It's unbelievable how basically all of the styles in this picture are back in fashion, espescially the guy on the far right.



Wolfgang Prueckl trying a 375 lbs deadlift (170 kg) in his attic gym in 1988.

Peter Hensel posing @ FIBO fitness & bodybuilding fair in Cologne, 1987. As an East-German "Kulturistik"-Champion (1983) he was apparently allowed to travel outside GDR to take part in Western sport events. I didn't even know there were bodybuilding contests in East Germany in the early 80's as body shaping was considered a sign of "Western decadence". They didn't even have public gyms; you could only train in a weight room if you were a member in a state-run sports club. Some people built their own weights (cans filled with sand, car tires) in order to train.
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In 1986, IFBB Champion Vince Taylor not only lived in West-Berlin (probably as a GI), he also appeared as a whiskey-sipping nude model in a German detective series.



woman: "May I introduce to you Joe Kessler - my model."
detective: "THAT'S your model?! As far as I can see YOU'RE NOT PAINTING HIM!"
woman: "We're having a preliminary talk..."

Here's a fun fact from Vince's biography:
"The 1983 Mr. Berlin Vince Taylor started off in the light-heavyweight class, but a few weird things happened. He crashed his car - twice - on the way to the venue. He was too late to enter as a light-heavy, but they let him compete as a 170lbs. heavyweight and he ended up winning the whole thing."