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European Bodybuilding Photographs

^{After coming to California, I posed for Joe Weider’s bodybuilding magazines at Muscle Rock in the heights above Malibu. Bodybuilders like this spot because the ridges in the distance seem little and your muscles look bigger than the mountains. Art Zeller}

^{Aurelia and Gustav Schwarzenegger, my mother and father, on their wedding day in 1945. He’s wearing the uniform of the Austrian rural police. Schwarzenegger Archive}

^{My brother Meinhard was born in 1946, and then one year and fourteen days later came me. Our mother had her hands full with two young boys. Here we’re on the unpaved main road outside our house in Thal. Schwarzenegger Archive}

^{I always liked to paint and draw, even as an eleven-year-old in Hauptschule. Schwarzenegger Archive}

^{At age sixteen, I loved working out at the local lake, the Thalersee, with buddies like Karl Gerstl, Willi Richter, and Harry Winkler. Schwarzenegger Archive}

^{Hitting a front bicep pose in my first bodybuilding competition, at the Steirerhof Hotel in Graz, at age sixteen. Bodybuilding was so obscure that the contest organizers thought they needed a band onstage to help attract an audience. Stefan Amsüss}

^{I drove this fifty-ton M47 during my year in the Austrian army; my fellow crew members and I were responsible for its daily maintenance. Schwarzenegger Archive}

^{I could press 185 pounds at age sixteen as a member of the Graz Athletic Union weightlifting team—the applause of a crowd made me stronger. Schwarzenegger Archive}

^{I finally got to meet my idol Reg Park while training at the London gym of Wag Bennett in1966 (the W I’m wearing stands for Wag). Schwarzenegger Archive}

^{My dream became reality at London’s Victoria Palace Theatre in 1967, when I became the youngest ever Mr. Universe at age twenty. Albert Busek}

^{I walked around downtown Munich on a November day in my posing briefs to publicize bodybuilding and attract customers to the gym. Rolf Hayo / Roba Press}

My second Mr. Universe victory, in London in 1968, brought me an invitation and a plane ticket to America. I won the professional class and Dennis Tinerino the amateur class. Schwarzenegger Archive