Thanks for clearing that up about the photos BifRayRock, I was going crazy trying to find it again and it's right under my nose.
I could watch those little film loops all day.
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Originally Posted by Martin Pal
This guy is 18?
I haven't been able to find evidence yet of a bowling alley on Hollywood Blvd. at the address given--6624 Hollywood Blvd.
I did, though, find a couple sources that another bodybuilder had one of his gym locations at that address: Bert Goodrich.
1947 Project
IThe Kress Department Store is at 6608 Hollywood Blvd. and you can see down the street a ways it looks like a sign for "Goodrich Gyms."
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I have some info on 6624. It was the Cinema Sports Center, opened Nov 1940 and was operating through 1954 at least.
LAT 11-14-40
It featured a cafe, a gift shop, the Pacific Health Club (baths, sunlamps, massage, body building), and of course bowling (open all night). It had one of those Gruen neon clocks out front.
Before Cinema took over it was retail space, housing Leed's Shoes among others.
Woman walking just past Leeds c. 1937
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00007/00007797.jpg
There's a great color photo of it in Jim Heinmann's 2009 hardcover book Los Angeles: Portrait of a City (a lot of NLAers probably own this one)
(In this case you can judge a book by its cover)
Finally, I doubt he spend as much time in a gym as Mr. California, but how about an unheradled great physique of Hollywood?
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm17506365...f_=nm_phs_md_4
Joe E. Brown (here with his wife c. 1951, so he was 59-ish here). Plus by anything I’ve read, a genuinely nice guy.
Jerry/Daphne could do worse.