Joe Roark's IronHistoryArchives.com
The HUGE library of Iron History compiled by Joe Roark.
Welcome to Iron History with Joe Roark!
Joe Roark has been studying the iron game since 1957, and by 1970 began a systematic gathering of information on index cards. By the time his first computer was acquired, there were several hundred thousand references to be typed into it.
For a few years he published his own newsletter called MuscleSearch: The Roark Report. By 1992 he was appointed as the IFBB Men's Bodybuilding Historian, and began writing about history for FLEX in his column Factoids. For ten years he contributed to Iron Game History from the U of Texas at Austin. Recently he also began writing All Our Yesterdays for FLEX.
His passion has always been the period between 1880 and 1920, with particular emphasis on the oldtime strongmen of that era. Joe will be offering bits of history for Cyberpump once per week, and the text will be relevant to the dates of the calendar for those events of yesteryear relevant to the coming week.
In this column, readers will also be able to ask Joe questions or comment on his posts. Note: The comments are solely for interaction between Joe and the readers only -- not reader to reader.
08/26/05: George R. Weaver Letter to Joe Roark - Final Page
Thursday, August 25, 2005
This week we continue the letter from George R. Weaver to Joe Roark - the final page.
Posted by TheEditor @ 10:43 PM CST
8/19/05: The Last Letter George Weaver to Joe Roark (cont.)
Thursday, August 18, 2005
"This week we continue the letter from George R. Weaver to Joe Roark
Posted by TheEditor @ 10:00 PM CST
08/12/05: The Last Letter George Weaver Sent to Joe Roark (cont.)
Thursday, August 11, 2005
We continue with George Weaver's letter to Joe Roark. Page 3:
Posted by TheEditor @ 09:19 PM CST
8/5/05: The Last Letter George Weaver Sent to Joe Roark
Thursday, August 4, 2005
Here are the first two pages of the last letter that Weaver sent to me. This is dated April 19, 1988. His idea about calculating how many book you can read in your remaining lifetime is interesting!
Posted by TheEditor @ 06:40 PM CST
