COACH ...., I knew Clinton and CF back then ... as well as Pearl and Judy and Harry and Solo El Fenzy and Rob Johnson and Wayne Bouvier and a number of the other Pearl's Gym regulars .... and I think I might have met you once or twice through my good friend Joe Valdez or maybe through one of the above mentioned gym members.
Back then Gold's Gym Santa Monica was sponsoring the Mr A and Clinton and CF felt it might be best to be Gold's Gym members prior to that event and they both had a talk with Bill berforehand who agreed entirely.
I completely forgot about the blood doping that I only heard about in those good old days. Is that still a common practice today? Or was it even a common practice way back then
Back then Rory L. was training a bit east of Pasadena where the city limits seemed to end prior to the start of complete desert wasteland which is now miles and miles of homes and commercial space.
Rory used to cut hair for some of the members in back of the gym. Do you possibly recall the name of that gym and who owned it?
Also did you ever train at Zuvers in Costa Mesa?
Also if I recall right, Birdsong was the big upcoming superstar of the So Cal bodybuilding scene at that time and the last time I saw him was after some contest in Disneyland that Jeff and Cory MC'd when we got together with Bob and his wife and daughter at some unreal huge-plate restaurant a few miles south of Disneyland. The kind of place where you ordered a turkey sandwich and you got half the turkey and a loaf of bread. Do you recall that place? Every bodybuilder ate there at one time or another back then.
How about 'fine' dining at the GERMANS in Venice?
I think that all of the above was during your time so if you can correct me or simply mention others who were involved within the So Cal bodybuilding scene at that time.
I'd appreciate a kick in the memory banks.
Dale Adrian sound familiar? Or John Corvello? Peanuts West? George Frenn? Rhino - who was just getting out of diapers around that time? Bill McArdle? A much smaller version of Larry Scott just out of gymnastic practice? Don Peters? Gypsey Boots? Gene Mozee? Dough Strohl? - Might have been much earlier. Pettis? Kroger?
If you knew some of the above, you witnessed a better world back then.
Thanks for reading ,,,, Stunt