what you guys dont understand is venice and marina del rey are filling up with several new circuit training gyms, and private training gyms..............a nice gym in marina called Angel city fitness closed a couple of years ago, now worlds, and now golds is the new starbucks of gyms............I bet if someone found the right building and put all new hammer strength equipment, and all the hardcore/bbing style of gym up, a ton of members would join................if you guys want to remain at a hardcore gym, black diamond on crenshaw still exists, where the likes of mike christian trained, ron love, and other black bbers. They have the dungeon downstairs full of antique equipment, but they closed it off now............its making me sick that the muscle beach pit is the only remnant left out here at the mecca............and the equipment contract at muscle beach expires soon, so its not a good feeling at all knowing us hardcore guys have nowhere to go train and feel the comraderie and the true inspiration and feeling of bbing history golds and muscle beach had............