1. Joe Gold was the founder of Gold's Gym and World Gym.
12 Facts About Joe Gold
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Joe Gold has been credited with being the father of the bodybuilding and the fitness craze.
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Max Gold was the neighborhood junk collector and the family's back yard and garage served as a makeshift junk yard.
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Joe Gold's mother, Jennie, was a seamstress who divorced Joe's father and remarried two additional times.
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Joe Gold developed an interest in bodybuilding at the age of 12, when he saw his sister-in-law's design for strengthening her arms.
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Joe Gold had attached a filled bucket to each end of a broom handle and was using them as lifts.
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Joe Gold appeared as an extra in two epic movies, The Ten Commandments and Around the World in 80 Days, both released in 1956.
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In 1965, Joe Gold opened the first Gold's Gym in Venice, California.
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Joe Gold was known for the personal encouragement he gave trainers, although delivered in sarcastic jabs at their faults.
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Joe Gold opened new gyms and designed the equipment for them.
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Joe Gold's innovations revolutionized the sport, enabling people to exercise more easily with machines.
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Joe Gold died on July 11,2004, at age 82, in Marina del Rey.