Joe Weider The small ads in the back of Weider magazines for Gold’s Gym tanks and T-shirts were half Gold’s Gym’s revenue in 1979. Weider pulled ads mysteriously. Connors had 2 theories. Weider saw Gold’s […]
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 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 […]
Jurassic Gorilla https://jurassicgorilla.com The first Gold’s Gym opened in August 1965 in Venice Beach, California. Dubbed “the Mecca of bodybuilding”, it was frequented by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Dave Draper and featured in the 1977 movie […]
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