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Skating News 1950-10 p13 Macfadden Skates

Bernarr Macfadden makes good on his promise to roller skate on his 82nd birthday. Macfadden, physical culture impresario and publishing titan, would perform great feats every year on his birthday, a ritual later observed by Jack LaLanne. Macfadden influenced *generations* of physical culture greats like Eugene Sandow, Charles Atlas, LaLanne, Joe Weider and many others.

 

The year after, Macfadden would parachute from a plane on his 83rd:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cle-SnPyg6g

 

Today the word quack is quickly ascribed to old Bernarr, a dismissive way to approach his impressive publishing and physical culture legacy and sheer lust for life. He rollin, they hatin'

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Uploaded on April 3, 2024
Taken on January 6, 2012