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Archive Home > 2009 > April > 09 > Bodybuilding pioneer Armand Tanny was a fixture at original Muscle Beach

Bodybuilding pioneer Armand Tanny was a fixture at original Muscle Beach

By Jon Thurber / The Bulletin
April 9, 2009

Armand Tanny, a pioneering figure in bodybuilding who won national titles in 1949 and 1950 and was a popular figure on the original Muscle Beach in Santa Monica, Calif., during its heyday in the 1940s, has died. He was 90.

Tanny, the younger brother of gym pioneer Vic Tanny, died Saturday of....

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