Reflections on Musclebinding – Iron Game History – April 1992

The piece on Alvin Ro brought back many thought to me. Around 1943, my family moved from serving a mission church in northeast Baltimore to a big church in a small town in the mountains of central Pennsylvania, Lock Haven. I arrived there just at the time in my life that I was learning about the weights, so needless to say, I was passionate about them but absolutely nobody else shared that passion.