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Jan Dellinger

Jan Dellinger

York Barbell historian and former managing editor of Strength & Health magazine; last living employee to work under Bob Hoffman.

Jul 7, 2026

5:36
Right.
5:37
I told you I went in the book about Grimmick.
5:39
Grimmick set me up with Kono.
5:42
Apparently they had a, and this is the only time he ever did it, he must have wanted to send a message to Kono.
5:47
There was apparently a dumbbell pressing contest between Grimmick and Kona.
5:54
Was it with the hundreds, I believe? Hundreds.
5:57
One of them pressed them 17 times, and the other one pressed them 16 times.

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15:36
You still hear, like I said, you still hear parents and even doctors saying that stuff.
7:33
He
7:33
said, basically, I'm going to, I think, how are you going to wrestle with your back? He said, well, I'm just going to walk around the ring, taunt the fans.
7:41
I'm going to roll in to stop them counting me out.
7:43
And I'm going to roll out, taunt the fans.
7:44
I'm going to keep that up for about eight minutes.
7:47
He said, then I'm finally going to get in and lock up with Monsoon and I'll foul him once.
7:50
And then he said, we'll lock up again.
11:36
I was just going to ask you about Mike Webster.
5:26
Yeah, so what was, were you ever at Bob Hoffman's house? Did he have a big property like what
5:36
Arthur Jones had? I was in his property up here in Lightner's Hill is where he lived in the 30s.
5:42
There were two stone homes there.
5:46
He got them built for like $30,000, Brimick told me.
5:50
which in the 1930s was a lot of money, but still, you know, that would translate well to today's dollars, really well.
5:58
And he had a, what would you call it, a nice summer house with it.
6:02
He had that swimming pool, and he kind of had a fenced-in yard up there that had some vines growing around, things like that.
8:52
They had
6:52
The drawings are just
6:53
amazing.
6:54
I mean, they pull you right in.
6:57
I think I figured this out, and I don't care if it's York, I don't care if it's Weider, any of these guys, go back to Lederman and Mailer, of course, they had some very talented all-around guy that could write, that could draw, that could maybe even do drafting, design equipment and things like that, various kinds of artwork, painting.
7:24
Gordon was that guy here.
7:26
A guy like E.M. Orlick would have been Weider's guy for a while.
7:31
I don't know to what extent...

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16:58
Mississippi,

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