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| | Joe Gold, 82; Bodybuilder Founded Gyms (washingtonpost.com) |
 | | Gold, son of an East Los Angeles junk dealer, was a lifelong bodybuilder who opened the first Gold's Gym in 1965 in Venice, Calif. One of his customers was an Austrian immigrant named Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose 1977 movie "Pumping Iron," filmed at the original gym, helped popularize the sport. |
 | | Gold had practice for those inventions: As a teenager, he started his first "workout gym," which friends dubbed the Dugout, in an old garage in front of his parents' house. |
 | | Gym rats with six-pack abs, leotarded lionesses each with a toned gluteus maximus, and California's governor owe their strength and physiques, in part, to Joe Gold. |
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