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Post by Magnus on Feb 22, 2021 0:04:53 GMT
Hey, Mags....do you know where Oceanic Ave on Staten Island is? Yep, I spent a good few years growing up just a couple of miles from there
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Post by Magnus on Feb 22, 2021 0:11:58 GMT
...almost bought a house on Tennyson Drive in 1994. Tennyson Drive is the last block running parallel with the shoreline and intersects with Oceanic Ave.
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Feb 22, 2021 1:05:40 GMT
I thought that looked like your old stomping grounds. A girl who lives a block up from the water on Oceanic Ave just ordered stuff from me. Small world.
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Post by Magnus on Feb 22, 2021 2:05:44 GMT
Yes it is, tell her we're gonna need pics !
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Post by brothersteve on Feb 22, 2021 16:08:58 GMT
Can't believe I forgot my fav Times Square billboard...... I always appreciated the female physical form. Never got to see it. Mom and aunt knew, but never told me. Saw other plays we got discounted from the Times Square tkts booth we waited for to open. Ordered the Chuck Atlas course late summer of 80' and a few weeks later was in NYC before school that year and made my mom and aunt take me to Atlas HQ, 49 West 23rd St. I forgot what floor it was on, but once off the elevator you were 'penned' in by cubicle walls - old ones made of metal and beveled glass on metal wheels. One had a door to get into the main office. They were just under 6 ft. A chair and two framed 15"x22"(?) b&w pics of Atlas were there. The one on the right was of him younger, but I could not find that one by itself. Both pics were so clear, and un-retouched you had to see them to really appreciate his lean musculature. Woman at front window said he was not in (I didn't know he had passed at that point). Charles Roman came off the elevator about 20 minutes later and checked us out never saying a word as he keyed into the main office. He was short and fat. That was it, no meeting. I was able to see the safe shown in the pic on page 68 of "Yours in Perfect Manhood: Charles Atlas" that came out around 1982.
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Feb 22, 2021 16:09:08 GMT
With her order she received the alternative manual - "Uses as Marital Aids".
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Post by Deuce Gunner on Feb 25, 2021 22:45:18 GMT
Can't believe I forgot my fav Times Square billboard...... View Attachment I always appreciated the female physical form. Never got to see it. Mom and aunt knew, but never told me. Saw other plays we got discounted from the Times Square tkts booth we waited for to open. Ordered the Chuck Atlas course late summer of 80' and a few weeks later was in NYC before school that year and made my mom and aunt take me to Atlas HQ, 49 West 23rd St. I forgot what floor it was on, but once off the elevator you were 'penned' in by cubicle walls - old ones made of metal and beveled glass on metal wheels. One had a door to get into the main office. They were just under 6 ft. A chair and two framed 15"x22"(?) b&w pics of Atlas were there. The one on the right was of him younger, but I could not find that one by itself. Both pics were so clear, and un-retouched you had to see them to really appreciate his lean musculature. Woman at front window said he was not in (I didn't know he had passed at that point). Charles Roman came off the elevator about 20 minutes later and checked us out never saying a word as he keyed into the main office. He was short and fat. That was it, no meeting. I was able to see the safe shown in the pic on page 68 of "Yours in Perfect Manhood: Charles Atlas" that came out around 1982. View AttachmentView AttachmentI remember that poster on the subway station platforms and inside the subway cars advertising that play when I was growing up in The Bronx and we would take the subway into Manhattan for something.
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Post by pierinifitness on Feb 25, 2021 23:12:48 GMT
I remember the first time I went to NYC for a family vacation with our children when they were young. I was a kid growing up who never left my city; I had to join the U.S. Army to see someplace different.
We stayed in Manhattan for several days, somewhere near Time Square, at the Sheraton I believe. There was some knucklehead outside who had a drum set and he played the drums non-stop all night long! I couldn't believe it. Great memories - going to the top of the World Trade Center building and looking down, going to the Statue of Liberty all the way up to her crown and looking out below, taking the Staten Island Ferry which cost a whopping 25 cents, strolling through Central Park, going to Little Italy and Chinatown, etc., etc.
I didn't take a camera with me because I wanted to experience with my eyes and have no obstruction. I remember at the end of our stay, reflecting on my decision not to take a camera, I said to myself and others that photos don't do NYC Manhattan justice of what it's like. Unless you have a tape recorder to capture the sounds on the street and a bottle to capture the interesting scents, particularly on or around the subway, the interesting smells emitting from underground, then you have no clue what NYC Manhattan is like. I understand it was cleaned up quite a bit since then. We took this vacation probably in 1990.
I will probably never go back.
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Post by mr potatohead on Feb 26, 2021 0:16:45 GMT
I'm a rural native. Don't want to go now.
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Post by Deuce Gunner on Feb 26, 2021 1:13:18 GMT
I remember the first time I went to NYC for a family vacation with our children when they were young. I was a kid growing up who never left my city; I had to join the U.S. Army to see someplace different. We stayed in Manhattan for several days, somewhere near Time Square, at the Sheraton I believe. There was some knucklehead outside who had a drum set and he played the drums non-stop all night long! I couldn't believe it. Great memories - going to the top of the World Trade Center building and looking down, going to the Statue of Liberty all the way up to her crown and looking out below, taking the Staten Island Ferry which cost a whopping 25 cents, strolling through Central Park, going to Little Italy and Chinatown, etc., etc. I didn't take a camera with me because I wanted to experience with my eyes and have no obstruction. I remember at the end of our stay, reflecting on my decision not to take a camera, I said to myself and others that photos don't do NYC Manhattan justice of what it's like. Unless you have a tape recorder to capture the sounds on the street and a bottle to capture the interesting scents, particularly on or around the subway, the interesting smells emitting from underground, then you have no clue what NYC Manhattan is like. I understand it was cleaned up quite a bit since then. We took this vacation probably in 1990. I will probably never go back. I joined the U.S. Navy to get out of NYC because I didn't particularly like it in the late 70's. Even less so now. I knew my parents would never leave there.
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Post by moxohol on Feb 26, 2021 11:53:47 GMT
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Post by moxohol on Feb 26, 2021 12:00:23 GMT
I'm a rural native. Don't want to go now.
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Post by moxohol on Apr 23, 2022 4:42:36 GMT
Can't believe I forgot my fav Times Square billboard...... View Attachment I always appreciated the female physical form. Never got to see it. Mom and aunt knew, but never told me. Saw other plays we got discounted from the Times Square tkts booth we waited for to open. Ordered the Chuck Atlas course late summer of 80' and a few weeks later was in NYC before school that year and made my mom and aunt take me to Atlas HQ, 49 West 23rd St. I forgot what floor it was on, but once off the elevator you were 'penned' in by cubicle walls - old ones made of metal and beveled glass on metal wheels. One had a door to get into the main office. They were just under 6 ft. A chair and two framed 15"x22"(?) b&w pics of Atlas were there. The one on the right was of him younger, but I could not find that one by itself. Both pics were so clear, and un-retouched you had to see them to really appreciate his lean musculature. Woman at front window said he was not in (I didn't know he had passed at that point). Charles Roman came off the elevator about 20 minutes later and checked us out never saying a word as he keyed into the main office. He was short and fat. That was it, no meeting. I was able to see the safe shown in the pic on page 68 of "Yours in Perfect Manhood: Charles Atlas" that came out around 1982. View AttachmentView AttachmentCan u believe that Atlas died of a heart attack due to complications from diabetes? He was supposed to have a healthy lifestyle!
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Post by brothersteve on Apr 23, 2022 14:08:40 GMT
Can't believe I forgot my fav Times Square billboard......<button disabled="" class="c-attachment-insert--linked o-btn--sm">Attachment Deleted</button> I always appreciated the female physical form. Never got to see it. Mom and aunt knew, but never told me. Saw other plays we got discounted from the Times Square tkts booth we waited for to open. Ordered the Chuck Atlas course late summer of 80' and a few weeks later was in NYC before school that year and made my mom and aunt take me to Atlas HQ, 49 West 23rd St. I forgot what floor it was on, but once off the elevator you were 'penned' in by cubicle walls - old ones made of metal and beveled glass on metal wheels. One had a door to get into the main office. They were just under 6 ft. A chair and two framed 15"x22"(?) b&w pics of Atlas were there. The one on the right was of him younger, but I could not find that one by itself. Both pics were so clear, and un-retouched you had to see them to really appreciate his lean musculature. Woman at front window said he was not in (I didn't know he had passed at that point). Charles Roman came off the elevator about 20 minutes later and checked us out never saying a word as he keyed into the main office. He was short and fat. That was it, no meeting. I was able to see the safe shown in the pic on page 68 of "Yours in Perfect Manhood: Charles Atlas" that came out around 1982. <button disabled="" class="c-attachment-insert--linked o-btn--sm">Attachment Deleted</button><button disabled="" class="c-attachment-insert--linked o-btn--sm">Attachment Deleted</button> Can u believe that Atlas died of a heart attack due to complications from diabetes? He was supposed to have a healthy lifestyle! He exercised, but I don't think he followed his (Doc Tilney's?) course advice on nutrition. Pic's show his cheeks (face) were full and round and he was pretty smooth in his adult life. Too many simple carbs? He was obviously well fed and in later life looked pretty slack (IMO) for a guy in his business and pushing the course. I think he looked good and natural most of his life, but not like a bodybuilder. Sandow looked better (IMO) in his prime than Atlas from a bodybuilding standpoint, but the methods, and I'm sure eating, were different as well. Mrs. Atlas was Italian and was chunky and was said by Roman to cook very good meals which I'm sure Mr. Atlas enjoyed regularly. Roman lived long life (92) and when we saw him in the Fall of 80' he was fat for that time period. Even skinny 'Doc' Tilney did not live that long (late 70's).
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Post by moxohol on Apr 23, 2022 15:01:06 GMT
Can u believe that Atlas died of a heart attack due to complications from diabetes? He was supposed to have a healthy lifestyle! He exercised, but I don't think he followed his (Doc Tilney's?) course advice on nutrition. Pic's show his cheeks (face) were full and round and he was pretty smooth in his adult life. Too many simple carbs? He was obviously well fed and in later life looked pretty slack (IMO) for a guy in his business and pushing the course. I think he looked good and natural most of his life, but not like a bodybuilder. Sandow looked better (IMO) in his prime than Atlas from a bodybuilding standpoint, but the methods, and I'm sure eating, were different as well. Mrs. Atlas was Italian and was chunky and was said by Roman to cook very good meals which I'm sure Mr. Atlas enjoyed regularly. Roman lived long life (92) and when we saw him in the Fall of 80' he was fat for that time period. Even skinny 'Doc' Tilney did not live that long (late 70's). In diabetics, aspirin at high doses dramatically decreases glucose (25%) and triglycerides (50%), and improves glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity. Aspirin recapitulates the features of calorie restriction too. A mimetic basically. Diflunisal is an aspirin analog used for rheumatoid arthritis which a prescription is needed. Diflunisal has all the same therapeutic benefits of aspirin but at a much lower dosage than aspirin with less risk of bleeding too. ============ JCI - Mechanism by which high-dose aspirin improves glucose metabolism in type 2 diabetes www.jci.org/articles/view/14955Salicylate, diflunisal and their metabolites inhibit CBP/p300 and exhibit anticancer activity www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4931907/
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