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The Black Dragon Ron van Clief
"Abbye “Pudgy” Stockton (1917-2006). Born in Santa Monica, Abbye was known as “Pudgy” growing up because she was in fact, pudgy.
Steadily packing on the pounds while working as a telephone operator in the late 1930s, she eventually decided that enough was enough and did something almost unprecedented: Abbye started lifting weights. She soon became a familiar face at Santa Monica’s famed Muscle Beach ...
At 5’1″ and 115, Abbye wasn’t just strong, she was built. Abbye organized the first sanctioned weightlifting meets for women, and had personal PRs that included a 100 lb press, 105lb snatch, and a 135 lb clean & jerk…in 1947.
Yet, she exuded a sense of delicate femininity that ruled the times. After World War II, She opened a gym for women on Sunset Boulevard and began writing the column “Barbelles” for Strength and Health magazine, the world’s influential fitness magazine at the time."
ROME - Atia of the Julii (Season 1)
Lobby card for Tokkaido Girls With Swords (Tokaido Chakkiri Musume, 東海道ちゃっきり娘), 1960, directed by Bin Kato (加戸敏) and starring Takuzo Niki (仁木多鶴子), Kazuko Miyagawa (宮川和子) and Keiko Yumi (弓恵子).
Muscles and stuff: WeightsAndCrossfit.tumblr.com
Blue Eye Samurai