This is absolute gold. Mr. Atlas died when was 14 years old, but I did chat with Mr. Roman on the phone few years before he died. I also knew Charles Atlas Jr for several years before his passing in 2008. I have subscribed to your channel.
@@igalflint Sorry for the late reply. Charles Jr was born on December 12, 1918 served in the US Coast Guard in WW2. His ship took part in the D-Day landings. He later became an aeronautical engineer and moved to Santa Monica, CA. He married in the 1960s and had three children, William Atlas (who died in childhood), Thomas Atlas MD, and Gia Atlas, who is an orchid expert. He kept up with his own Dynamic Tension training throughout much of his life, but did not follow his father into the bodybuilding industry. He later became a professor of mathematics at Santa Monica College before retiring completely from any form of employment. He was doing great until he suffered from a spinal aneurism at the age of 85, which left him partially disabled. He died in August 2008 at the age 89. His wife, Wilma (Billie) Atlas, a retired journalist, died in November 2020 at the age of 92.
Everybody is 97 pounds once. At any rate Charles seems like a classy and articulate man. And when you come down to it, he may be the most influential physical culturist the world has ever known.
@@v00n2000 He really wasn't that big. He was only 185lbs at 5' 10". He claims he did use weights in his earlier years but did not like the way they made him feel. He had more of an athletic body not really bodybuilding but more for health and strength.
@@richardparries1064 if he didn't like the way they made him feel, he was doing it wrong. My feeling is that he should have combined his program with weights as well.
@@v00n2000 Atlas was a businessman who made $$$$ selling his Dynamic Tension program. He didn’t earn a cent, if he told them to use weights, which is what he did behind the scenes.
![What's My Line? - Charles Atlas; Jane Powell; Jack E. Leonard [panel] (Jun 10, 1956)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/6vvHioybPt4/mqdefault.jpg)
Used to see his Adds on back page of comics when I was young . Great to see him here
My God the mentality of Americans from Charles's day and now is night and day. R.I.P America.
This is absolute gold. Mr. Atlas died when was 14 years old, but I did chat with Mr. Roman on the phone few years before he died. I also knew Charles Atlas Jr for several years before his passing in 2008. I have subscribed to your channel.
Could please tell us more about Charles Atlas Jr.?
@@igalflint Sorry for the late reply. Charles Jr was born on December 12, 1918 served in the US Coast Guard in WW2. His ship took part in the D-Day landings. He later became an aeronautical engineer and moved to Santa Monica, CA. He married in the 1960s and had three children, William Atlas (who died in childhood), Thomas Atlas MD, and Gia Atlas, who is an orchid expert. He kept up with his own Dynamic Tension training throughout much of his life, but did not follow his father into the bodybuilding industry. He later became a professor of mathematics at Santa Monica College before retiring completely from any form of employment. He was doing great until he suffered from a spinal aneurism at the age of 85, which left him partially disabled. He died in August 2008 at the age 89. His wife, Wilma (Billie) Atlas, a retired journalist, died in November 2020 at the age of 92.
Charles Atlas seemed like a very nice person.
What an Example of True Manhood!!!!
Bless you! Bless you one million times!
Everybody is 97 pounds once. At any rate Charles seems like a classy and articulate man. And when you come down to it, he may be the most influential physical culturist the world has ever known.
Fine man
I have been training Dynamic Tension since 1975. My weight at that time was 61 kg and now I'm 108kg. I'm 61 years of age.
Do you really think that Charles Atlas got that big by dynamic tension, or did he actually use weights?
@@v00n2000 He really wasn't that big. He was only 185lbs at 5' 10". He claims he did use weights in his earlier years but did not like the way they made him feel. He had more of an athletic body not really bodybuilding but more for health and strength.
@@richardparries1064 if he didn't like the way they made him feel, he was doing it wrong. My feeling is that he should have combined his program with weights as well.
@@v00n2000 Atlas was a businessman who made $$$$ selling his Dynamic Tension program. He didn’t earn a cent, if he told them to use weights, which is what he did behind the scenes.
God Bless Charles Atlas
what a daddy
How was he then, 62?
He was 58 years young in 1950.
I was a 97 pound weakling, then I got 'roids
So?
Haemmorhoids?
Sure, it was ‘Roids, which weren’t even available to bodybuilders in the US till the late 50’s. Atlas was about 66 then.