{"id":522,"date":"2003-11-23T04:08:20","date_gmt":"2003-11-23T08:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2003\/11\/23\/life-by-delmonteque\/"},"modified":"2003-11-23T04:08:20","modified_gmt":"2003-11-23T08:08:20","slug":"life-by-delmonteque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2003\/11\/23\/life-by-delmonteque\/","title":{"rendered":"Life, by Delmonteque"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Some stories are too good to be true.  Such is the story of Bob Delmonteque<\/STRONG>‘s life…<\/P>
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He was a popular beefcake model in his youth.  Pictures from his youth<\/A> are now worth a tidy bundle.  He himself was known in those days as a photographer of male nudes.  He went on to become a major national exercise trainer, and was one of the trainers for the original Apollo astronauts… Somewhere in there, he got a degree in (sports) psychology.  Some recent pictures:<\/P>
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Awesome studio photo published in ’99<\/A> (taken when he was in his 70s?).  
One Taken in 2000<\/A> (age 81+<\/STRONG>) at a modeling shoot.  
Headshot from a recent ISSA profile<\/A>.<\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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Today Delmonteque is 84<\/STRONG><\/A>, has a build most 20-year olds would kill for, and spends his time promoting his line of age-defying products and still modeling his physique for weight gyms in California.  Here’s a charming article<\/A> he published recently, in which he coyly refers to himself in the third person…<\/P>
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If I find a good reference to one of his photo exhibits (photos by him, not of him), I’ll post it here.  Maybe I’ll even find a woman with a similar story!  [the woman who helps him market his youth potions doesn’t quite fit the bill.]<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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