Years before the atomic bomb, the Allentown Fair had the Mighty Atom. From the 1920s to the 1970s, stunt performer Joseph Greenstein appeared under the name Mighty Atom on the fair?s midway, ...

Joseph Greenstein, aka The Mighty Atom. Photo courtesy of Steven Greenstein. Joseph Greenstein stood only 5 feet 4, but he could bend iron bars with his bare hands, bite through chains with his teeth ...

The Weightlifting Hall of Fame sits along I-83 north of York; next to the York Barbell Company. The Strongman Exhibit, within the Hall of Fame, contains a collection of items attributed to Joseph ...

A Mighty Museum Celebration in Boyertown featured a vintage circus theme, including a strongman show, on Nov. 6. The Irish Anvil delighted the crowd with feats of strength performed by both the Mighty ...

DC Comics character The Mighty Atom is a rare combination of overlooked and enduring. Simply a physically well-trained man of short stature in the Golden Age, the character received a post-atomic-age ...

It was a Friday night in the early 1970s and William Thrush, as he often did, had taken his family to Zern’s Farmers Market, a large indoor-outdoor market near Boyertown, now closed. ”I would take the ...

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When I was about ten years old, my mother took me to see the Mighty Atom’s legendary strong man act at the Panoramic Health Farm, a bungalow colony he owned in Woodridge, New York—my home town that ...