JOE THE LIFTER TRIBUTE PAGE
- Featuring Joe "the Lifter" Schleifer
Every year on the first Saturday after the first Monday in Labor Day, since its inception in 1991, the Weirdo Formal Invitational Central Park Golf Classic has been held in Central Park, starting from Columbus Circle at 12:30PM, and terminating at the Key West Diner and Cafe on Broadway just South of 96th street. The videos you will see will amaze you. The people you meet when you play golf in tuxedos in the park are amazing. Joe the Lifter is one such character. Here you will see how we met him while filming the tournament the first year. Subsequently we have run into him every year in Central Park, several of which will also be shown below. Amazing but true... Joe has not failed to meet us yet in the subsequent eleven years. Enjoy these videos and be amazed at the lifting powers of this real New Yorker.... His antics at lifting strangers in the park have been immortalized in song by God, the Band, who met Joe independently in Central Park. He is also beloved by the band Handshake Squad in Tampa.... A true pop icon for our time, we present the original photos and videos of the one and only Joe The Lifter!
VIDEOS OF JOE THE LIFTER LIFTING TONS OF PEOPLE IN CENTRAL PARK! (1991-1994)
- The original encounter,
1991
- With Joe Terwilliger, Matthew Clarkeeee, David Rogers, Ron Caswell, and Domecq Smith
- The return of Joe the
Lifter, 1992
- With Joe Terwilliger, Matthew Clarkeeee, David Rogers, Julie Sutherland, Wenjie Song, Ping Zhou, Wenjie's friend, and Homeless Julie - featuring the infamous shots where Joe decides to lift us TWO AT A TIME!!!
GOD THE BAND also likes Joe the Lifter
God the Band has just released a new video to go with their song about our buddy Joe the Lifter, who apparently, according to Mugwump, met them while they were playing in Central Park and offered to lift them, and from then on we have shared a common fascination with this dude. Their video, "The Lifter", features an amazing likeness of Joe the Lifter as he looked in the 1991 video above, where we knew him simply as "the guy in the Yankees cap"... Amazing!!! Great work, guys... Links are provided below to their site for ordering the CD or viewing the video and other Joe the Lifter material...
- Announcement of their new video about Joe...
- Is that Joe on keyboards or an optical illusion?????
- Click here to order the CD with the Joe the Lifter song, "The Lifter"
- Click to view the video "The Lifter" from God the Band (low res)
- Click to view the video "The Lifter" from God the Band (high res)
Photos of Joe the Lifter in action!!!
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Matt Clark being lifted by Joe the Lifter
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Matt Clark being lifted by Joe the Lifter (reverse angle)
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Joe the Lifter and the formal golfers
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Harald Goring rides on Joe the Lifter's shoulders
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Harald Goring is amazed as Matt Clark is lifted by Joe the
Lifter
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Yes, that is right, here is Joe the Lifter GOLFING!
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Matthew Clark rides Joe the Lifter's shoulders and does
karate...
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Joe the Lifter's Quintessential lift of Matthew Clark
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Joe the Lifter is a pretty short dude...
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Matthew is on his shoulders... Again...
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I think Matt's balls are hurting...
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Joe lifts Gautum Guliani (almost the mayor...)
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Joe and Gautam both look a little TOO happy here...
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An older and NOT wiser Matt's Balls are hurting again!!!
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Joe told us about how he used to ride the elevators with
Nixon!
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Yep, Joe has been in my living room (and does not sleep -
he paced the apartment all night while my friends slept in the room
where he was pacing!!! YIKES)