The end of an Era

[atlasaxis]

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130323005020/en/Joe-Weider-Legendary-Bodybuilding-Fitness-Icon-Dies

[pandy]

I have a Weider Ultra Max, which is a copy of a Bowflex. It's excellent, made of heavy steel and was half the price of Bowflex. Weider built quite a bodybuilding empire.

[Greyfox]

When I was a kid growing up Joe Weider and Charles Atlas were always advertising on the comics that I read.
Atlas promised that people would no longer kick sand in my face.
Weider promised me a body that girls would die for.

Alas, I never bought their stuff, girls never died for me, and I'd still run the risk of having sand kicked in my face if I went to the beach.

http://www.rocketsuperb.com/lout_shelter/weiderad_1969.jpg (http://www.google.ca/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=joe+weider&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=XBJr7Z1pP3eU4M&tbnid=IDH3jPbdsDSQVM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Floutshelter.blogspot.com%2F2007_0 4_01_archive.html&ei=v2VPUYieCeOJjALZ_ICYAQ&bvm=bv.44158598,d.cGE&psig=AFQjCNGlv7h8kgQN4ZL35ItqtiD9JYzYnQ&ust=1364244278265916)

[RaceBookJoe]

Weider revolutionalized the bodybuilding supplement industry.

[Valuist]

I never understood how they could have Mr. Olympia contests in which Weider was training all the main contestants.