Gold's Gym
The Original Gold’s Gym
The exterior of the original Gold’s Gym, featured in the book ‘Pumping Iron,’ underwent an alteration during the ownership of Bud Danitz and Dave Saxe when it was painted red, white, and blue. In their […]
Gold’s Gym
Ed Connors
The Three Muscleteers Notes: Part 2
Joe Weider Gunnar Rosbo, My First Foreign House Guest Wrestling Deaths “The average American male is five feet, nine inches. The US is the only industrialized country whose male population has decreased and no one […]
Ed Connors
1960/early 70s Gold’s Gym Notes
Notes from Men’s Journal Article on Gold’s Gym Ken Waller was Gold’s Gym Manager Ed Giuliani quote: “I’d go to the beach, and they’d give me the wolf whistle, guys on a blanket wanting to […]
Ed Connors
The Three Muscleteers Notes: Part 1
Ed Connors’ The Three Muscleteers was one of my must-purchase Kindle books this year. It’s available as a physical copy as well, just not in hardback as this article’s accompanying illustration depicts. These are notes […]
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Original Gold’s Gym
Jurassic Gorilla https://jurassicgorilla.com The first Gold’s Gym, established in August 1965 in the sunny coastal enclave of Venice Beach, California, holds a hallowed place in the annals of bodybuilding history. Often referred to as “the […]