Author Topic: Zuver plates - has anybody ever seen these in person? (Read 22437 times)

funk51 · « **on:** May 08, 2011, 12:31:14 PM »

zuver plates

funk51 · « **Reply #1 on:** May 08, 2011, 12:32:19 PM »

shirley used to use um. gleaned off'n ironhistory.com.

_bruce_ · « **Reply #2 on:** May 08, 2011, 12:34:23 PM »

Awesome plates!

Dr Dutch · « **Reply #3 on:** May 08, 2011, 12:35:11 PM »

The_Iron_Disciple · « **Reply #4 on:** May 08, 2011, 12:43:13 PM »

Nope. But I " shirley " would've fucked Shirley back in the day ! Tore that ass up !

Jadeveon Clowney · « **Reply #5 on:** May 08, 2011, 12:51:15 PM »

Put the rod in the hole.

More lingerie pics of aforementioned Shirley, please.

chunkramwell · « **Reply #6 on:** May 08, 2011, 02:57:55 PM »

Are these special edition Goatse weights or something? That's interesting!

wes · « **Reply #7 on:** May 08, 2011, 04:01:30 PM »

What happened to all of the awesome equipment and plates from Zuvers Gym?

Place was cool!

funk51 · « **Reply #8 on:** May 09, 2011, 08:50:41 AM »

not too much of it around i guess place was unusual to say the least.

_bruce_ · « **Reply #9 on:** May 09, 2011, 08:59:56 AM »

Place looks awesome!

funk51 · « **Reply #10 on:** May 09, 2011, 09:07:46 AM »

i remember reading about this gym years ago it had the biggest lat machine , biggest drinking fountain 200 lb plates.

funk51 · « **Reply #11 on:** May 09, 2011, 09:08:44 AM »

the other lat machine now thats heavy duty.

dyslexic · « **Reply #12 on:** May 09, 2011, 09:25:23 AM »

I wonder how much that cute figurine weighed on a 50.

Dr Dutch · « **Reply #13 on:** May 09, 2011, 10:23:51 AM »

Pictures are cool. When was this, 50-60s?

funk51 · « **Reply #14 on:** May 09, 2011, 10:30:06 AM »

60's, don't know when they went out of business.

Ron · « **Reply #15 on:** May 09, 2011, 10:12:39 PM »

Those are cool - are there different types of plates like that besides the mainstream ones we see now out there at various gyms?

BB · « **Reply #16 on:** May 10, 2011, 03:10:52 AM »

Zuver was involved with some of the early WSM television, designing equiptment, etc...., in the 1977 or 78 show you can see Zuver's plates being loaded on to things. Dr. Ken Leistner mentioned that after Franco Columbu broke his leg in the refridgerator carry, he sued everyone including Zuver. This soured Zuver on the whole scene, so he just dumped everything and retired to Idaho.

Zuver plates do show up once and a while, a pair was sold to Richard Sorin (Sorinex Equiptment and a big time collector of weights) by a member of Ironhistory, a few months back. Price was undisclosed, but I bet it was hefty.

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_bruce_ · « **Reply #17 on:** May 10, 2011, 03:27:16 AM »

Quote from: BB on May 10, 2011, 03:10:52 AM

Zuver was involved with some of the early WSM television, designing equiptment, etc...., in the 1977 or 78 show you can see Zuver's plates being loaded on to things. Dr. Ken Leistner mentioned that after Franco Columbu broke his leg in the refridgerator carry, he sued everyone including Zuver. This soured Zuver on the whole scene, so he just dumped everything and retired to Idaho.

Zuver plates do show up once and a while, a pair was sold to Richard Sorin (Sorinex Equiptment and a big time collector of weights) by a member of Ironhistory, a few months back. Price was undisclosed, but I bet it was hefty.

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BB · « **Reply #18 on:** May 10, 2011, 04:18:57 AM »

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Fast foward to about 10-11 minutes in, he's in a race with Patera (edit: Footballer Bob Young, brother of powerlifter Doug Young) , and his leg snaps out from under him.

The Zuver plates were used in part 2/7 of that youtube series the wrist roller event, but I'm too lazy to grab it.

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Tre · « **Reply #19 on:** May 10, 2011, 04:58:29 AM »

funk51 · « **Reply #20 on:** May 10, 2011, 10:29:52 AM »

Quote from: Ron on May 09, 2011, 10:12:39 PM

Those are cool - are there different types of plates like that besides the mainstream ones we see now out there at various gyms?

i saw somewhere that some company actually makes weights to any design including writing on plates for a set up fee. a lot of colleges get them done this way.

funk51 · « **Reply #21 on:** May 10, 2011, 10:35:20 AM »

ironcompany.com is one such company.

DroppingPlates · « **Reply #22 on:** May 10, 2011, 01:52:45 PM »

This tread is fun

Nirvana · « **Reply #23 on:** May 10, 2011, 06:55:51 PM »

they have them at caliber fitness.

stuntmovie · « **Reply #24 on:** May 11, 2011, 08:44:51 AM »

I worked out at Zuver's a couple of times while stationed at Camp Pendleton.

Here's how I recall it.

We'd drive the 80 or so miles up to Costa Mesa and find Zuver's in a residential neighborhood which was somewhat strange back in those days.

I kind of recall that it was a huge structure built on the north side of his property with his home on the south side.

You'd park in any vacant spot on this residential street and then walk down a short dirveway towards the back of his property and see a huge structure guarded by a huge ape and a huge 'iron' door with a sign "If you cannot open this door, you are too weak to enter" or something like that.

Once inside it was like entering an iron museum. Everything was "the biggest this and the biggest that" and "the heaviest this and the heaviest that" and some parts of the floor were actual 45 pound olympic plates.

Most new-comers would spend about 30 minutes looking at all the equipment until Rev Zuver would walk over and introduce himself. No high pressure sales .... Just a hearty welcome and an invite to "Go ahead and use the equipment. Have a good workout!"

Back in those good old days you were always welcome to work in with anyone who happened to be using the same equipment you were planning to use, so I ended up benching with some UCLA shot-putters who were pretty famous back them.

Not sure about this but I think that the local community got a bit upset about Zuver's Gym being located in a residential neighborhood and all the resulting traffic. That may be the main reason why it closed down.

And I don't recall if Rev Zuver reopened in another location.

PS That's Zuver's son "Rhino" in that bench press shot.