Absolutely Stunt. I loved it back then to compared nowadays. Nearly everything I know or learned I learned by simply asking Louie, Franco, Dennis, Waller, Tony Pearson and many others. They would let me work in and tell me how to do it while I was with them. I'll always remember Louie telling me to do barbell curls with your elbows alway in and you hands wider than your elbows. I leanred more doing the exercises with the people who really knew how to train than anyone PT can learn from a book. I am still surprised that people all the time ask me questions on how to do a certain exercise or how to do this or how to do that. And I look the way I do. But at least my mind is the same.
I hate it when I hear how much a PT will make and then watch what they do. I ran a club back in the late 70's and all we had was an index card with the name and all the contact info on it. No computers, no nothing. Like I've said on here before, I'll never forget the board behind the front counter at World's Gym and seeing Arnold's (among others) in big writing telling them they are late with their dues. It was $150 a year back then with no money dues. Very simple. Joe didn't let anyone slide. Those were the days.