Joe Gold, founder of gym was 82

The founder of Gold's Gym, an L.A. institution of sorts since its founding in Venice in 1965, died over the weekend. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who worked out at Gold's when he first came to America, said in a statement, "Joe looked after me and encouraged me, and his dry sense of humor was a daily feature of the gym." The AP obituary moved nationally about 6 p.m. and was widely picked up, but it doesn't appear that the news made Tuesday's Times [late obit did make the print paper, but not the website] or Daily News. Gold had been running the World Gym in Marina del Rey most recently — from a wheelchair — and Sports by Brooks (he's a member) has an appreciation.