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.
8/27/2010: Letter from Charles A. Smith to Joe Roark March 14, 1989
Friday, August 27, 2010
Posted by TheEditor @ 06:43 PM CST
8/20/2010: Letter from Charles A. Smith to Joe Roark, March 10, 1989
Thursday, August 19, 2010
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Click Here, Page 4Posted by TheEditor @ 08:23 PM CST
8/13/2010: Letters from Charles A. Smith to Joe Roark, March 6th and March 8th, 1989
Friday, August 13, 2010
Posted by TheEditor @ 10:01 PM CST
8/6/2010: Letter from Charles A. Smith to Joe Roark January 23, 1989
Friday, August 6, 2010
Letter from Charles A. Smith to Joe Roark January 23, 1989
"After much mental wrangling I have decided to post parts of this letter- excluding the section Charles indicated was OFF THE RECORD. Please note that before page 382, the following words should have appeared:
'Hepburn was perhaps my 'prize' pupil' and the one I was most close to.'
Posted by TheEditor @ 10:11 PM CST
