Q for tommy wishbone/cswol

[Slik]

Hey. Losing my memory! Spent 5 years at golds Venice back in the second half of the eighties early nineties. Wut was in that third room back then. I remember there used to a lat low row n possibly a jungle gym.  I remember a treadmill where the jungle gym is in the second room and the nautilus double shoulder was there too. There was also a jungle gym in the second room. I remember doing push downs next to benazziza days before he flew to that show and died.  I think i remember mattarazo n his girl was it sue? The big blonde in the third room. But fir the life of me I don't remember outdoor access from the third room. Like an outdoor gym. I remember the flat benches n incline were up front by the desk. That was getting into maybe 92 93 though. I know for sure there wasn't as much cardio shit as today or maybe cuz I never did it. I would use that oddly placed tread in the second room often though to walk slowly for 15. Didnt want to lose bulk haha!  I remember the posing room under the steps.  There was a room in the back third part that had a ballet bar in it that I'd stretch on sometimes. U got any old pix of the gym itself? I keep trying to remember all the stuff back then. I remember Katsumi at the power racks. Guy never missed a workout.

[cswol]

They demolished all that stuff nothing left now all treadmills and machines

[_aj_]

I was there for a while in the '97 timeframe. Is it the room in the back where they did a lot of the photos?

[Slik]

There r three rooms at golds Venice. All fairly similar in size. Front room biggest. Middle room smallest. Back room has garage doors that open up to an outside workout area. I don't remember it having that part back in the eighties.

[The Abdominal Snoman]

Were there a lot of empty brown paper grocery bags in the locker rooms?

[arce1988]

  The good old fucking days

[jwb]

The third room had the Yellow Flex equipment, the original Hammer machines and the Blue Icarian benches amongst other stuff.

[jwb]

I think the cardio was in a fourth room but that wall was torn down and both cardio and Hammer plus some benches and dumb bells are all in one room now.

[jwb]

Here is the gym in 2011.

[Slik]

Here is the gym in 2011.

thx yeah. I lift there quite frequently in the last 8 yrs cuz I travel so much. Thx man. I can't believe I spent five years lifting there n am having trouble remembering but I guess it was like 20 yrs ago. Anyway back then there wasnt an outside part to workout I'm sure. Lotta big guys when I was there, Aaron baker, quadzilla, Jim quinn, flex, Cormier, Dillet, ferrigno, Katsumi, Billy Smith, Barbarian bros, aww hell everyone who was anyone was there plus a thousand no names.

[tommywishbone]

In Vegas. Hang tight. . .   

[Slik]

how much did  Easy E upright row in there?

kilo on the side