Joe Gold
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Joe Gold (born Sidney Gold, 1922 – July 11, 2004) was an American bodybuilder and businessman.
He was the father of Gold's Gym and World Gym.
He has been accused of being the father of the bodybuilding and fitness craze.
Early life
Joe Gold, Robert Gold (born Ruben Gold), Nathan Gold, and Eunice Gold Fiss were the youngest of four siblings. Max Goldglejt (born Abraham Mordechai Goldglejt) and Jennie Gold Glick Sussman (born Zelda Feierman) were among the Jewish refugees who migrated from Belarus to Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. Max Gold, the neighborhood junk collector, and the family's back yard and garage served as a makeshift garbage canny. Jennie, Joe's mother, was a seamstress who divorced Joe's father and remarried two more times. Joe attended Theodore Roosevelt High School.
At the age of 12, he became interested in bodybuilding after seeing his sister-in-law's proposal for strengthening her arms. She had tied a filled bucket to each end of a broom handle and was using them as lifts. Joe and his brother, Robert Goldberg, had the idea of building their own machinery from scrap metal recovered from their father's scrap yard in Boyle Heights. He travelled to Muscle Beach, Santa Monica, as a youth.
He served in the United States Merchant Marine and spent time in the US Navy during World War II, where he was seriously wounded in a torno attack and also in the Korean war.
Career
He auditioned for Mae West with a group of musclemen as a professional bodybuilder. "I'll take all of you," West said. Gold then toured the country with her revue. In addition, he appeared in two epic films, The Ten Commandments and Around the World in 80 Days, which were released in 1956.
Joe Gold opened the first Gold's Gym in Venice, California, in 1965. Despite the grim fixtures of its first incarnation, local bodybuilders were quickly recognized. Joe Gold was known for the personal support he gave trainers, but it was delivered in sarcastic jabs at their failures.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, who started working outside the gym in 1968 soon after arriving in the United States, was one of Joe Gold's many devotees. Joe Gold was described as "a trusted friend and father figure" by Schwarzenegger.
Joe Gold opened new gyms and specialized in them. His inventions changed the game, enabling people to exercise more effectively with machines. In 1970, he sold the Gold's Gym chain.
He founded World Gym in Santa Monica (later in Marina del Rey), which he owned and operated until his death.