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- Joe Roark's Iron History web site is a great resource for all old time muscle topics.
- Bob Whelan's Natural Strength has a nice collection of old articles and new articles on the old timers, a great resource for iron dinosaurs.
- Brooks Kubik is the man that brought the oldtimers back into the mainstream with his book, Dinosaur Training - some good articles and clips, and links to buy his book and newsletter archives are on his site.
- Here's a great article - Some Lesser Known Strongmen of the 50's and 60's. You can find many more great articles in the collection at the Iron Game History project although unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an index or table of contents. (Note - if anyone finds one, let us know!)
- A great project: American Powerlift Evolution has much more than just powerlifting history, many scanned-in articles from golden era muscle mags.
- A very well organized site with pictures, magazine covers, and contest results from the golden era: Tim Fogarty's Muscle Memory
- In this article, David Gentle writes of takes a nostalgic trip around his physical culture library.
- Here David Gentle writes of theIron Game Collector's Series, A Century of Muscles, a two-part overview.
- This film by Laurie Block entitled FIT: Episodes in the History of the Body, documents the history of physical culture from the late 1800s through the years of the Kennedy presidential fitness craze.
