Everything looks familiar about this world-class gym, except the ceiling is
the sky and the air conditioning is the sea breeze.  The spirit of the people
who are working out in the few hundred square feet of precious space
are at the center of the greatest fitness movement in history.

There was a young Austrian born in 1947 who would hear of this
place and a bodybuilder from Muscle Beach who would later
open his own "indoor" weightlifting gym and end up with their
lives paralleling together.  The name of the Venice gym owner
was Joe Gold.  The name of the Austrian was Arnold.

How might Arnold Schwarzenegger's journey be different  if Santa Monica
never had a beach playground that became "Muscle Beach?"