Saying hi if its the right place and a history question

[turingtest]

Howdy
I just joined the forum and wanted to say hello. I hope this is the right forum area. Since i am a fan. Ive been lurking for a long time but never quite hit the signup button.
Ive been a fan of FTvideo since it started and have had a membership off and on during the times i have internet access. I was really happy to see it pop up, and it had Marja Lehtonen no less! :) Remember when it was almost impossible to find female bodybuilders on the net? Hard to imagine that now. Poor Tina Lockwood really missed the boat on that one. Along with a lot of others i guess.

I was wondering, i dont know if this is a dead horse to beat, but i would be interested to hear what first started peoples interest in FBB and such? For me it was seeing Kim Zmeskal on the cover of Time magazine. Anyway i hope thats not a tired topic.

Ok, I have rambled enough so i will ramble off somewhere else. What im trying to say i think in so many words is 'hello. Im going to be posting some so get used to me.' :)

Cheers!

[pict]

For me, a picture in Sports Illustrated of Gayle Olnikova running on the beach, an article in Sports Illustrated on a couple of early FBBs (?Cammie Lusko?), and stumbling on a TV broadcast of an early Ms. Olympia contest with Rachael McClish. But I remember being fascinated with the neighbor girl's muscles when I was like 4 years old.

[Grant]

I first saw FBBs in 1979-80, when (I guess) they were first coming into the public eye, and it was pretty exciting. They were on things like the David Susskind show, which was big on controversial subjects, but also on ones like the Tonight Show (and, I guess, on the "Real People" kinds of shows). But (I'm embarrassed by this) it wasn't til 1988-89 that I got completely caught up in it, after seeing a competition on a weekend sports show on NBC. I hate to say it, but (speaking of "Remember when") it's hard to imagine a network sports show actually giving air time to FBBs NOW. I was very lucky because that one contest had ones like Tonya Knight and Janice Regain, and also Dominique Darde, someone I really liked but have hardly seen since that one time. I have a real prejudice for FBBs at off-season weight, so the first time I saw one like THAT, I was even MORE completely hooked (I think it might have been Karla Nelson). But I think the first all-out "crush" I had was on Sandy Riddell, when she was on a "Muscle Magazine" episode in 1990.