It happened at Caesars Palace in December 1983. Fifteen women competed in a bodybuilding contest that did not really exist. It was conjured up for a film crew, mixed professionals with amateurs in flat contravention of the sport’s own rules, and sitting on the judging panel, scoring them, was one of the men who wrote… Continue reading The Explorer Who Became a Judge: On The Life Of Charles Gaines
Outside the auditorium, or Pavilion, as it's called, it is a gorgeous Sunday afternoon at the Mountain Park amusement center in Holyoke, Mass. A roller coaster clatters up and down a wooden trestle. Children fly around in little whirly things that look like boats with wings. There are clam bars, pizza stands, dart throws, cotton-candy… Continue reading Charles Gaines, ‘Cutting Some Fancy Figures, Sports Illustrated, 10 July (1972).
Outside the auditorium, or Pavilion, as it's called, it is a gorgeous Sunday afternoon at the Mountain Park amusement center in Holyoke, Mass. A roller coaster clatters up and down a wooden trestle. Children fly around in little whirly things that look like boats with wings. There are clam bars, pizza stands, dart throws, cotton-candy… Continue reading Charles Gaines, ‘Cutting Some Fancy Figures, Sports Illustrated, 10 July (1972).
Outside the auditorium, or Pavilion, as it's called, it is a gorgeous Sunday afternoon at the Mountain Park amusement center in Holyoke, Mass. A roller coaster clatters up and down a wooden trestle. Children fly around in little whirly things that look like boats with wings. There are clam bars, pizza stands, dart throws, cotton-candy… Continue reading Charles Gaines, ‘Cutting Some Fancy Figures, Sports Illustrated, 10 July (1972).
