He stopped the taxicab he was driving and looked up. What he was looking at made him smile -- it was the old Bufano's Gym sign still hanging up on the condemned building. "It was old and worn and ...

It was a call to action, gym owner Scott Campbell said, tinged with lighthearted ribbing. “Tired of being fat and ugly?” his sign outside Pell City Fitness read in stark white letters.

What started out in 1965 as a small gym in Venice Beach, California, has since become the most iconic fitness company in the world — Gold's Gym. Over the last 55 years, Gold's Gym has ...