I was the manager of Golds on second street from 1978-1980 along with Kent Kuehn and Bob Fisher. Great times with all the guys in this video. Wish it never would have ended.
Ric, I remember when you went set for set with Arnold pulling the long bar loaded on one end with plates, back in the early 70"s, Golds was the mecca of bodybuilding, Guys came from all over the world, Even at 79 years old I've got vivid memories of the 6 years I lived on Venice Blvd, in Santa Monica, 5 times a week I was at the gym, training was an addiction,we were drawn to that small gym on Pacific Ave I met some wonderful guys, they were the best years of my life Thanks for all the work and time you've devoted to promote the sport along with memories you've brought back to all of us old timers.
@Apex_grind562 pound for pound it was Franco I actually was right near the bench when he was lying flat benching 315 multiple times in perfect form, at least 15 reps and could have done more. Franco was compact and hard as a rock
I can vividly remember the first time walking through the 2nd street Golds Gym at 17, seeing Kent Kuhn, Robby Robinson and Mike Mentzer. It was my utopia. These men were gods to me. But mostly an immeasurable inspiration. One that carried me to becoming a national caliber competitor. Fantastic video! How I miss the golden era.
Dean Avanti, it will be. I am finishing up the rough cut, and then post production. The last four years I have dedicated a great deal of my tie to filming, and editing this passion project of mine. My POV of Gold's when I joined as a 17 year old in 1977 to the sale of the gym from Sprague to Grymkowski.
@@tomlucasrccrawlers9108 , thanks Tom! I am about 6/7th of the way through the rough cut..it will run roughly an hour and a half. I have a few more hurdles to clear in fair use and some more financing. Thanks for the kind words! Marc
Born too late for the original golden era, but my dream of working out at Gold's Venice came true in '95. It was an unforgettable experience, but what a place this must have been 20 years prior. Now, 25 years later, even '95 seems romantic when it comes to in person experiences.
I remember in the 70's - lot of serious lifters thought that Waller was an arrogant jerk - but years later I heard he was just putting on an act. My respect to all lifters - bodybuilders - powerlifters - Olympic lifters.
Drasin should have a percentage for that logo. I am having a hard time finding an old school gym where I live. All I want to hear is the work and the rattle of the weighs, in a basement somewhere.
Arnold du bist der beste schöne Grüße + i hope you had as usual fun at our Oktoberfest see you next (2020) year again in Munich cheers from Munich Germany
Thanks for sharing this rare documentsry, its so fascinating tô see how our sport grown up and became a real particular culture that still helping and inspinring a lot of people around the world. Its amazing! #fromBrazil
I was there from the summer of 77 until it moved back to Venice. Great video....really captured the feel. Mentzers, Manny Perry, Pete, Bill Grant, Larry Jackson. Kent Kuhen singed me up. The place was wild. Guys would pull up in big station wagons from Pennsylvania and like they landed on Plymouth Rock. I remember the day the Barbarian Brothers first walked in looking like buccaneers. The gym was filled with guys from all over the country and world who would give up everything to live and train there.
The sunny days and the beach must have made it heaven back then to train, unfortunately where I live it's grey cold and wet. It's hard to get your ass out of bed in the morning let alone do what these guys did. Awesome
This video is very informative and entertaining. However, I readily admit that I am nostalgic and sentimental about bodybuilding during this era, which I think of as the age of Pumping Iron. Thanks for this!
Travis if your interested Ric's Drasin sells his old school Gold's Gym T-shirts on his website. They are replica's of the original ones they use to sell at Gold's back in the 70's There also available on the Gold's websites under vintage clothing..
Great flick Ric! Only you know how to do Old School Bodybuilding! There were people in there I haven't seen in years! Manny Perry, Rudy Hermosillo, Dave Dupree, WOW!!
Joe Candela, why thank you Joe. I have spent the better part of four years on this film, and hope to have it out this year on a VOD or streaming service.
@@JOECANDELA22 Hi there. Thanks for the inquiry. I am completing the 5th of 7th segments in rough cut form this week. I have some other moving parts (illustrator to send me renderings of events I have to video or photos of, and then there will be legal work to do as far as clearance and fair use issues.)Still pushing hard, and the 5 segments clock in around an hour in total, the final will be about 1 hour and 20 minutes.
Just after I started training at 15 at home I went into an art class at school and there it was Pumping Iron the book this was in 1978 before the film had been shown in the UK but I was already aware of Arnold and the movie. I remember looking through the book at the great photos and I had to have that book and I took it home justifying it then that nobody at that school wanted it more than I did. Sorry Mr Wright.
Thanks Rick! I was 14 when I met you at Steve Davis gym in Valencia and later, I met the golden eagle, Platz Zane, and Ferrigno that same year. I believe it was 78'.
@@Christopher-Lenz well, Chris, they were all great! Very accommodating with signing my copy of pumping iron, and the latest muscle mag, in which Ric dreyson was featured modeling with another dude and couple young ladies and discussion on nutrition. What struck me the most? How short they all were. Ya Zane was really short but looked amazing. Lou was 6+ feet. That was at Vince's world gym, and gold's gym on 2nd st next to a pussycat theatre. Mecca Fer sure!
I remember that Universal Bodybuilding ad. I was 13 years old and sick of being skinny. I sent for that course and you know, it was not a scam. It did steer you in the right direction...especially when you got to the final weeks of the twelve week course. It had the basics of building muscle: pumping the muscles with reps and sets, a high protein diet, and resting the body so as to let it rebuild the muscles cells broken down by the workouts. It did work. I always remember my teacher singling me out in class, saying how much bigger I was getting. Then a girl said it was in the right places. That Universal course in the comic books was great and not a waste of money like the other things. Hey, did anyone send away for those x-ray glasses so as to enjoy looking at the girls in a new, interesting way? lol
I feel like this movie spoke to me .I was 16 probably around 1973 and picked up a copy of Pumping Iron in a book store . I’d been lifting weights for about a 18 months and had already gotten results. I loved the way I felt special and had control over my body . I’ve now been in the Fitness industry for 41 years and still love training. Thanks for this short dead on documentary
You are very wise and so independent! - What is the secret of your might? High intellect, strong will or ability to reuse knowledge and multiply it? :-) You can manage everything reaching corresponding goals! Thank you so much! :-)
i thought i ws looking at Gazza! 🤣 England footy player‼️face on the opening title, ‘wey i man’🏐 comments hv made the case its worth a view ⁉️Fantastic video too short ♠️ Days when the drug wasn’t god 😌 as a pickney i attended a club in a YMCA ( uk)deep in its bowels the weight room no gym like today! Pure iron! sweat could be smelt descending the treturious lime stone steps! l8 70’s early 80’s 👊🏽💪🏽🏋🏾♀️
This was the heyday of bodybuilding, as much about the characters as their physiques-----and like the good old film stars -Bronson - marvin- Lee, that great time has sadly long gone, only film remain + a few survivers of course!!! =
I saw the parade with the elephants and bodybuilders. It was the aau Mr america. Dave Johns won Mr A and rudy hermisilo won teenage division .sylvester stallone presented the trophy to rudy. The word was that rudy worked out with sly. Stallone wore a tailored white suit and look awesome. Pete grymkowski was huge ,bigger than anyone else in the lineup,but when he posed nothing much happened.may west did a routine with the bodybuilder, must have been in her 80s but still had it. My last rememberane, leaving the show was seeing bodybuilder Don Peters and a way foxy lady, in my mind the most impressive couple ever. Don was not a great bodybuilder but had a frame like Steve reeves.i remember thinking if I reincarnate this is how I want to look. It was a great show and really inspired me and my gym buds to hit the iron harder
Joe will of course be mentioned in my doc. I met Joe in 1978 at World Gym. Joe of course laid the foundation (literally for the original Gold's gym), and in the full length version of this film that I am editing, several people mention Joe and his influence and mark he left.
Rowdy Yates he lost his shirt at the show. Afterwards they wanted to use that somehow and added the stealing the shirt later. The scene where he talked about wanting to prank him was filmed after the competition.
It was also an era when bodybuilders actually looked *good*. There was a sense of aesthetics even in the larger competitors (Arnold, Lou Ferrigno, etcetera). Nowadays, they simply look disgusting
Kens skin did not react well to the steroids he was using. His skin aged alot more than other bodybuilders his age. ALL of the people featured in pumping iron were of a similiar age to Ken. A simple search on Wikipedia confirms this. Yet they did not age as much - especially when dealing with the skin of the face. He was however, an excellent bodybuilder. He retired in the 1980's, and in my opinion, he should have studied plastic surgery and learnt how to fix the reaction his facial skin was having to the steroids he was using.
@@williamyanosko4010 it's hard to when the titles rush by. And don't assume that the maker is as, apparently, fragile as yourself, when it comes to constructive criticism :)
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I was the manager of Golds on second street from 1978-1980 along with Kent Kuehn and Bob Fisher. Great times with all the guys in this video. Wish it never would have ended.
Want to ask. Who was the one pound for pound strongest person in that gym in that time??? Anybody ever fight??
I wish i was alive then
Ric, I remember when you went set for set with Arnold pulling the long bar loaded on one end with plates, back in the early 70"s, Golds was the mecca of bodybuilding, Guys came from all over the world, Even at 79 years old I've got vivid memories of the 6 years I lived on Venice Blvd, in Santa Monica, 5 times a week I was at the gym, training was an addiction,we were drawn to that small gym on Pacific Ave I met some wonderful guys, they were the best years of my life Thanks for all the work and time you've devoted to promote the sport along with memories you've brought back to all of us old timers.
@Apex_grind562 pound for pound it was Franco I actually was right near the bench when he was lying flat benching 315 multiple times in perfect form, at least 15 reps and could have done more. Franco was compact and hard as a rock
RIP Ric, you will be sorely missed
I can vividly remember the first time walking through the 2nd street Golds Gym at 17, seeing Kent Kuhn, Robby Robinson and Mike Mentzer. It was my utopia. These men were gods to me. But mostly an immeasurable inspiration. One that carried me to becoming a national caliber competitor. Fantastic video! How I miss the golden era.
If this was a full film, I would pay to watch it, amazing.
Dean Avanti, it will be. I am finishing up the rough cut, and then post production. The last four years I have dedicated a great deal of my tie to filming, and editing this passion project of mine. My POV of Gold's when I joined as a 17 year old in 1977 to the sale of the gym from Sprague to Grymkowski.
@@dreambigdoc cant wait to see it, whens it out
@@dreambigdoc It's been a year.
Is the movie available yet?
Cvd?
That would be cool to own it.
@@tomlucasrccrawlers9108 , thanks Tom! I am about 6/7th of the way through the rough cut..it will run roughly an hour and a half. I have a few more hurdles to clear in fair use and some more financing. Thanks for the kind words!
Marc
@@dreambigdoc Please keep us updated.
Wow those time are gone freedom was in the air .Thank you Ric
Great channel! I train in the oldest gym in south germany, est 1980. Old school works then and now! Keep pumping, Ric!
Born too late for the original golden era, but my dream of working out at Gold's Venice came true in '95. It was an unforgettable experience, but what a place this must have been 20 years prior. Now, 25 years later, even '95 seems romantic when it comes to in person experiences.
I remember in the 70's - lot of serious lifters thought that Waller was an arrogant jerk - but years later I heard he was just putting on an act. My respect to all lifters - bodybuilders - powerlifters - Olympic lifters.
This is gold! These guys built the structure of bodybuilding of today.
This brings back a lot of memories and some in this are gone now. These were the stars of my youth!
Drasin should have a percentage for that logo.
I am having a hard time finding an old school gym where I live.
All I want to hear is the work and the rattle of the weighs, in a basement somewhere.
Arnold du bist der beste schöne Grüße + i hope you had as usual fun at our Oktoberfest see you next (2020) year again in Munich cheers from Munich Germany
Gosh, I was just a young 12 year old kid at the time. The 70s era had it ALL!!! ...
Thanks for sharing this rare documentsry, its so fascinating tô see how our sport grown up and became a real particular culture that still helping and inspinring a lot of people around the world. Its amazing! #fromBrazil
I almost broke up when I heard Franco :(
I sure hope this documentary gets expanded and ends up on Netflix or distributed in some way. Great piece of content. Thank you.
Remembering the days when guys just went out and did the job!
The Golden Era!!!
Rics corner gets me pumped
Some cool footage I hadn't seen before in there!
I was there from the summer of 77 until it moved back to Venice. Great video....really captured the feel. Mentzers, Manny Perry, Pete, Bill Grant, Larry Jackson.
Kent Kuhen singed me up. The place was wild. Guys would pull up in big station wagons from Pennsylvania and like they landed on Plymouth Rock. I remember the day the Barbarian Brothers first walked in looking like buccaneers. The gym was filled with guys from all over the country and world who would give up everything to live and train there.
Ken Waller is one fine man. Ken was a great football player at WKU. He was a famous bouncer, and street fighter in Louisville ky.
Ur making me gay with this comment lol
Your the man Ric. Thank you for the quality content your always trying to put out for us!!!
I was training at Gold's at that time... That was really a great time (not only because I was young). Now the magic is gone.
The sunny days and the beach must have made it heaven back then to train, unfortunately where I live it's grey cold and wet. It's hard to get your ass out of bed in the morning let alone do what these guys did. Awesome
What an awesome feel it was, in the 70s !
This video is very informative and entertaining. However, I readily admit that I am nostalgic and sentimental about bodybuilding during this era, which I think of as the age of Pumping Iron. Thanks for this!
Wow, that's looks really good! The good ol days. I'll definitely watch the documentary when for sale/released.
I don't like the current Gold's Gym logo. I wish they would go back to Ric's drawing.
Travis if your interested Ric's Drasin sells his old school Gold's Gym T-shirts on his website. They are replica's of the original ones they use to sell at Gold's back in the 70's There also available on the Gold's websites under vintage clothing..
I just realized, Ric's T-shirt offer is noted above. There is a code for a 20% discount. Check it out above.
@@JOECANDELA22he doesnt sell the original tank tops sadly
I will get one soon , i always wanted a string tank top & a T-Shirt basically like a hoody would rock i will one day.
Great flick Ric! Only you know how to do Old School Bodybuilding! There were people in there I haven't seen in years! Manny Perry, Rudy Hermosillo, Dave Dupree, WOW!!
Joe Candela, why thank you Joe. I have spent the better part of four years on this film, and hope to have it out this year on a VOD or streaming service.
@@dreambigdoc looking forward to it Marc. Again nice job!
@@dreambigdoc Any update on your video?
@@JOECANDELA22 Hi there. Thanks for the inquiry. I am completing the 5th of 7th segments in rough cut form this week. I have some other moving parts (illustrator to send me renderings of events I have to video or photos of, and then there will be legal work to do as far as clearance and fair use issues.)Still pushing hard, and the 5 segments clock in around an hour in total, the final will be about 1 hour and 20 minutes.
@@dreambigdoc Thanks for the response and good luck!
Ric,, Thanx for a Fantastic upload,,wishing each and all a great day,
Brings back great memories from reading about these guys bodybuilding legends in the magazines back in the 70's.
It's back!!
Thanks. 💪👌🖖
I wish Ric was still alive and I could order his autographed custom made drawing of Golds Gym logo and stop by to meet him and say hi.
I never knew about the parade! Thanks Ric
me neither!!!!
Just after I started training at 15 at home I went into an art class at school and there it was Pumping Iron the book this was in 1978 before the film had been shown in the UK but I was already aware of Arnold and the movie. I remember looking through the book at the great photos and I had to have that book and I took it home justifying it then that nobody at that school wanted it more than I did. Sorry Mr Wright.
A great group of guys those days ,they had buetifull bodys, a good time to have lived in.
This looks excellent.. like many, I was influenced and motivated by these guys and the times.. Has the full version been released yet?
Fantastic video! Thanks for sharing.
0:49 It's uncanny how little hairstyles and fashions have changed since 1970.
Thanks Rick! I was 14 when I met you at Steve Davis gym in Valencia and later, I met the golden eagle, Platz Zane, and Ferrigno that same year. I believe it was 78'.
How we're they? Was Lou a nice guy or stand offish?
@@Christopher-Lenz well, Chris, they were all great! Very accommodating with signing my copy of pumping iron, and the latest muscle mag, in which Ric dreyson was featured modeling with another dude and couple young ladies and discussion on nutrition. What struck me the most? How short they all were. Ya Zane was really short but looked amazing. Lou was 6+ feet. That was at Vince's world gym, and gold's gym on 2nd st next to a pussycat theatre. Mecca Fer sure!
@@theoe2879 sounds great.
great doc, wish it were 2 1/2 hrs long!!!!!!!,more. more. more!
I remember that ad with Brian Eastman!!!
One of the best videos yet, Ric. I must unearth by copy of the Pumping Iron book.
Bodybuilding in the 70s 170 80s 180 ripped today age 65 master trainer still bodybuilding
Love Elvis Costello’s “Pump It Up” playing in the background. Very appropriate!
Sweet so kool
I remember that Universal Bodybuilding ad. I was 13 years old and sick of being skinny. I sent for that course and you know, it was not a scam. It did steer you in the right direction...especially when you got to the final weeks of the twelve week course. It had the basics of building muscle: pumping the muscles with reps and sets, a high protein diet, and resting the body so as to let it rebuild the muscles cells broken down by the workouts. It did work. I always remember my teacher singling me out in class, saying how much bigger I was getting. Then a girl said it was in the right places. That Universal course in the comic books was great and not a waste of money like the other things. Hey, did anyone send away for those x-ray glasses so as to enjoy looking at the girls in a new, interesting way? lol
great stuff!!👍💪🏻
Grrrrreat doc!!!
Now that was great.
I feel like this movie spoke to me .I was 16 probably around 1973 and picked up a copy of Pumping Iron in a book store . I’d been lifting weights for about a 18 months and had already gotten results. I loved the way I felt special and had control over my body . I’ve now been in the Fitness industry for 41 years and still love training. Thanks for this short dead on documentary
Did anyone see the ad for "Count Juan Rapphiel Donté the Deadliest Man that ever Lived"
I'm guessing Ric never filed the copyright patent on his drawing...
RIP Franco
Love it
You are very wise and so independent!
- What is the secret of your might?
High intellect, strong will or ability to reuse knowledge and multiply it? :-) You can manage everything reaching corresponding goals!
Thank you so much!
:-)
IT COMES NATURALLY
Great stuff Thanks 👌
Wow , that picture at 5:18 . Look at all the stars of BB
Gosh I want that logo drawn badly Ric. Soon!
Cool!
Great stuff Ric.....
Just imagine being in Venice in the 70s
I owned that book!
Hi Ric. Is there a feature length version of this film. It looks fantastic. Best, Jason
Good old days.
Where can I watch the full documentary ?
*documentay
@@blackphoenix8932 yeah that's wat I meant lol
soon
@@ricdrasin please let us know Ric, this sounds like it'll be a hit!
To bad they had to get old lose their muscle but back in the day they inspire
@ 05:13 Albert Busek and Ray Mentzer. This documentary is part of a larger documentary project, anybody know the name or status of it?
Was this full Documentary ever released yet?
i thought i ws looking at Gazza! 🤣 England footy player‼️face on the opening title, ‘wey i man’🏐 comments hv made the case its worth a view ⁉️Fantastic video too short ♠️ Days when the drug wasn’t god 😌 as a pickney i attended a club in a YMCA ( uk)deep in its bowels the weight room no gym like today! Pure iron! sweat could be smelt descending the treturious lime stone steps! l8 70’s early 80’s 👊🏽💪🏽🏋🏾♀️
What was the book the first guy was talking about that was about bodybuilding?
Waller, the original voice Inspiration of Herbert the pervert.
Even Jim Morrisson was around the cornrer
What is the name of the song at the end??
some of the best natural bodybuilder
Who is that at 05:13 (double-biceps pose)?
I just came here for the pump.
Great video.
Is there a full version?
Strawberry Letter 23......oh, yes.
More...
This was the heyday of bodybuilding, as much about the characters as their physiques-----and like the good old film stars -Bronson - marvin- Lee, that great time has sadly long gone, only film remain + a few survivers of course!!!
=
I saw the parade with the elephants and bodybuilders. It was the aau Mr america. Dave Johns won Mr A and rudy hermisilo won teenage division .sylvester stallone presented the trophy to rudy. The word was that rudy worked out with sly. Stallone wore a tailored white suit and look awesome. Pete grymkowski was huge ,bigger than anyone else in the lineup,but when he posed nothing much happened.may west did a routine with the bodybuilder, must have been in her 80s but still had it. My last rememberane, leaving the show was seeing bodybuilder Don Peters and a way foxy lady, in my mind the most impressive couple ever. Don was not a great bodybuilder but had a frame like Steve reeves.i remember thinking if I reincarnate this is how I want to look. It was a great show and really inspired me and my gym buds to hit the iron harder
what is a "documentay" ?
What about Joe Gold?
Joe will of course be mentioned in my doc. I met Joe in 1978 at World Gym. Joe of course laid the foundation (literally for the original Gold's gym), and in the full length version of this film that I am editing, several people mention Joe and his influence and mark he left.
Disliked Waller for his antics in Pumping Iron on Mike Katz.
That was staged and it didn’t go down like that. They added that antic afterwards, a fake reason for the lost shirt. Wasn’t real...
@@frozendivots1564 , sounds like a dodgey pitch to me.
Rowdy Yates he lost his shirt at the show. Afterwards they wanted to use that somehow and added the stealing the shirt later. The scene where he talked about wanting to prank him was filmed after the competition.
@@frozendivots1564 , so Ken 's a nice guy after all that frozen time then.
Rowdy Yates the directors wanted something to spice up the movie and Ken played the antagonist.
Those beautiful seventies
Must be called pumping Arnold
Ken waller 🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷
Waller looks like he's been dead several years: 2:38
Whats going on Uploading / deleting?
We had to change the watermark
is that ken waller in this video ? if it is he hasn't aged well at all.
It was also an era when bodybuilders actually looked *good*. There was a sense of aesthetics even in the larger competitors (Arnold, Lou Ferrigno, etcetera). Nowadays, they simply look disgusting
Rocky Balboa
I always felt Mike Katz was one of those guys who believed he was more than he was.
Kens skin did not react well to the steroids he was using.
His skin aged alot more than other bodybuilders his age.
ALL of the people featured in pumping iron were of a similiar age to Ken.
A simple search on Wikipedia confirms this.
Yet they did not age as much - especially when dealing with the skin of the face.
He was however, an excellent bodybuilder.
He retired in the 1980's, and in my opinion, he should have studied plastic surgery and learnt how to fix the reaction his facial skin was having to the steroids he was using.
horrible sound recordings (a $20 lav is all it would have taken) & the title cuts are too fast :(
Crybaby..just enjoy the video
@@williamyanosko4010 it's hard to when the titles rush by. And don't assume that the maker is as, apparently, fragile as yourself, when it comes to constructive criticism :)
*documentay tho*