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Original Golds Gym Boarded up???
« on: December 12, 2006, 05:14:46 AM »
Not sure who reads "Flex" these days, but in the last issue, Flex had a great story covering the best "old School" hardcore gyms through bodybuilding history. They covered Vince's (Gironda) Gym, a YMCA Gym in Chicago where Sergio trained for his Olympia run, Dorian Yates Temple in Birmingham, Lee Haney training at some gym call the "Wild Kingdom", Coleman's MetroFlex Gym and finally the Golds Gym and World Gym....

At the end of the Golds Gym story, it said that it is now vacant and boarded up....but the "Golds" lettering is still visable......here is my question:

If I'm Arnold Schwarzenegger with all my millions, why not resurrect the building in it's past glory and make it some kind of centerpiece for bodybuilding?? That place was THE PLACE for every bodybuilding champion and aspiring champion.....

I find it incredible that it's now just an empty place.........

Just my .02!!
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Re: Original Golds Gym Boarded up???
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2006, 05:20:52 AM »
Hmmmm....interesting.  Sorry for the confusion but which Golds?
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Re: Original Golds Gym Boarded up???
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2006, 05:22:48 AM »
that would be a good idea. money shoudlnt be a problem
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Re: Original Golds Gym Boarded up???
« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2006, 05:24:47 AM »
Quote from: bigbalddaddy on December 12, 2006, 05:20:52 AM
Hmmmm....interesting.  Sorry for the confusion but which Golds?

Venice
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Re: Original Golds Gym Boarded up???
« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2006, 05:26:50 AM »
I wonder if anything was left in it, I would be tempted to break in and take some memorabilia if I was out there. It would be nice to have it restored to it's old glory and made into a museum of classic BBing.
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Re: Original Golds Gym Boarded up???
« Reply #5 on: December 12, 2006, 05:27:07 AM »
Quote from: MikeThaMachine on December 12, 2006, 05:24:47 AM
Venice

Venice Golds boarded up?  Since when?  Yesterday?
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Re: Original Golds Gym Boarded up???
« Reply #6 on: December 12, 2006, 05:27:49 AM »
Quote from: bigbalddaddy on December 12, 2006, 05:27:07 AM
Venice Golds boarded up?  Since when?  Yesterday?

Not the newer one but the original one.
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Re: Original Golds Gym Boarded up???
« Reply #7 on: December 12, 2006, 05:28:20 AM »
Quote from: Bluto on December 12, 2006, 05:22:48 AM
that would be a good idea. money shoudlnt be a problem

I was shocked to read that it was empty....or that ALL those bodybuilders that owed they're career to the place (and Joe Gold) let it happen.........

Am I way off base??
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Re: Original Golds Gym Boarded up???
« Reply #8 on: December 12, 2006, 05:30:55 AM »
Quote from: Weightpit on December 12, 2006, 05:28:20 AM
I was shocked to read that it was empty....or that ALL those bodybuilders that owed they're career to the place (and Joe Gold) let it happen.........

Am I way off base??

Well after Joe sold it he took like 5 years off from the gym business and later opened World Gym where all the old regulars began to train, there loyalty was to Joe not his old gym.
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Re: Original Golds Gym Boarded up???
« Reply #9 on: December 12, 2006, 05:31:21 AM »
Quote from: bigbalddaddy on December 12, 2006, 05:20:52 AM
Hmmmm....interesting.  Sorry for the confusion but which Golds?

The original Gold's in Venice on Pacific Avenue. I think Getbig member, Hurricane Beef, went out there and took pics and shared them with us. Are you listening, Beef? Post 'em again!  8)
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Re: Original Golds Gym Boarded up???
« Reply #10 on: December 12, 2006, 05:31:35 AM »
Quote from: Weightpit on December 12, 2006, 05:14:46 AM
Not sure who reads "Flex" these days, but in the last issue, Flex had a great story covering the best "old School" hardcore gyms through bodybuilding history. They covered Vince's (Gironda) Gym, a YMCA Gym in Chicago where Sergio trained for his Olympia run, Dorian Yates Temple in Birmingham, Lee Haney training at some gym call the "Wild Kingdom", Coleman's MetroFlex Gym and finally the Golds Gym and World Gym....

At the end of the Golds Gym story, it said that it is now vacant and boarded up....but the "Golds" lettering is still visable......here is my question:

If I'm Arnold Schwarzenegger with all my millions, why not resurrect the building in it's past glory and make it some kind of centerpiece for bodybuilding?? That place was THE PLACE for every bodybuilding champion and aspiring champion.....

I find it incredible that it's now just an empty place.........

Just my .02!!

NO ITS ACTUALLY QUITE NICE INSIDE ..IT'S LIKE A STUDIO APT I SAW IT IN A BOOK FOR SALE..VERY NICE AND MODERN INSIDE.
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Re: Original Golds Gym Boarded up???
« Reply #11 on: December 12, 2006, 06:19:47 AM »
Quote from: Lee_a_priest on December 12, 2006, 05:31:35 AM
NO ITS ACTUALLY QUITE NICE INSIDE ..IT'S LIKE A STUDIO APT I SAW IT IN A BOOK FOR SALE..VERY NICE AND MODERN INSIDE.

Really?? THen why would Flex say that it's boarded up?? Either way, that building should have been a BB shrine already........
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Re: Original Golds Gym Boarded up???
« Reply #12 on: December 12, 2006, 06:26:03 AM »
How long has the original been closed?  Why did they move anyway?
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Re: Original Golds Gym Boarded up???
« Reply #13 on: December 12, 2006, 06:28:02 AM »
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If I'm Arnold Schwarzenegger with all my millions, why not resurrect the building in it's past glory and make it some kind of centerpiece for bodybuilding?? That place was THE PLACE for every bodybuilding champion and aspiring champion.....

Thought same: make it into a BB museum and/or theme restaurant. Much the same concept as his involvement with Planet Hollywood.

Last i'd heard, it was lived in by a gym owner maybe that's changed.
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Re: Original Golds Gym Boarded up???
« Reply #14 on: December 12, 2006, 06:29:08 AM »
Quote from: Rockhead on December 12, 2006, 06:26:03 AM
How long has the original been closed?  Why did they move anyway?

Hmmm....here is a recent pic that I just foung...."recent" meaning the in the last 3 years...

here is a write up too...

"The original Gold's Gym where Arnold used to be pumping iron has been closed for many years, but the building still remains and can be seen on the east side of Pacific, south of Rose, north of Westminster"
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Re: Original Golds Gym Boarded up???
« Reply #15 on: December 12, 2006, 06:31:21 AM »
maybe they used the Vic M membership plan?
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Re: Original Golds Gym Boarded up???
« Reply #16 on: December 12, 2006, 06:32:10 AM »
Looks hardcore like Metroflex, bet they didn't scream at you in there for dropping weights.
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Re: Original Golds Gym Boarded up???
« Reply #17 on: December 12, 2006, 07:07:55 AM »
I heard Joe didn't like it when people left weight lying on the floor and at World Gym would yell over an intercom at people to pick up weights.
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Re: Original Golds Gym Boarded up???
« Reply #18 on: December 12, 2006, 07:08:38 AM »
To answer you're question:

In Santa Monica and Venice, when something "a building" is labeled a historic place or building, the permits and trouble to resurect it gets a little hairy.  Not saying it can't or won't be done.  That is a PRIME piece of property, even if it wasn't the original Golds.  Its 2 blocks from the beach.
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Re: Original Golds Gym Boarded up???
« Reply #19 on: December 12, 2006, 07:14:26 AM »
Quote from: MikeThaMachine on December 12, 2006, 07:07:55 AM
I heard Joe didn't like it when people left weight lying on the floor and at World Gym would yell over an intercom at people to pick up weights.

So are you implying that the original Gold's gym had the first ever "LUNK ALARM"?
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Re: Original Golds Gym Boarded up???
« Reply #20 on: December 12, 2006, 07:19:41 AM »
Quote from: Weightpit on December 12, 2006, 06:29:08 AM
Hmmm....here is a recent pic that I just foung...."recent" meaning the in the last 3 years...

here is a write up too...

"The original Gold's Gym where Arnold used to be pumping iron has been closed for many years, but the building still remains and can be seen on the east side of Pacific, south of Rose, north of Westminster"

Isn's the area rather dodgy ? if I remember the area is run down...
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Re: Original Golds Gym Boarded up???
« Reply #21 on: December 12, 2006, 07:53:53 AM »
It's being used as a meth lab.
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Re: Original Golds Gym Boarded up???
« Reply #22 on: December 12, 2006, 08:49:07 AM »
Ken Sprague made the original Gold's into his private residence and as far as I know, closed it up when he moved up north.

And if you gotta ask who Ken Sprague was, you're not old enough for the rest of the story.
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Re: Original Golds Gym Boarded up???
« Reply #23 on: December 12, 2006, 09:56:29 AM »
It's really a shame to see the original Gold's Gym look like that.  :'(

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Re: Original Golds Gym Boarded up???
« Reply #24 on: December 12, 2006, 11:15:59 AM »
Quote from: Slick Vic on December 12, 2006, 09:56:29 AM
It's really a shame to see the original Gold's Gym look like that.  :'(

it's looked like that for at least 20 years.   it's been used as a residence for most of that time.   zillow.com lists it as a 2 bedroom 3 bath house valued at $2 million.
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