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.
11/25/05: Letter from Syd and Tom Harrington to Ray Van Cleef, December 6, 1950 (part 2)
Thursday, November 24, 2005
We continue our letter from Syd and Tom Harrington to Ray Van Cleef, of December 6, 1950.
Posted by TheEditor @ 07:42 PM CST
11/18/05: Letter from Syd and Tom Harrington to Ray Van Cleef, December 6, 1950
Thursday, November 17, 2005
Pages one and two of a letter from Syd and Tom Harrington to Ray Van Cleef, December 6, 1950. Part 1 is this week.
Posted by TheEditor @ 09:48 PM CST
10/11/05: Walter Marcyan Letter to Joe Roark
Thursday, November 10, 2005
October 15, 1990 letter from Walter Marcyan to Joe Roark regarding some history of the publication Physical Power.
Posted by TheEditor @ 06:20 PM CST
11/4/05: Letter from Parker Mahnke
Thursday, November 3, 2005
Here is a letter from Parker Mahnke, on behalf of Walter Marcyan, to Joe Roark October 15, 1990, regarding some issues of Physical Power magazine that Mr. Marcyan was giving to Joe.
Posted by TheEditor @ 07:37 PM CST
