Topic: Old Lifters out to pasture?

[john dunnigan]

In the mid 1970's I worked out and ran a small gym in Sebastopol Calif.
To make a very long and incredible story short (cause my typing sucks) the door opened up and in the gym walked 3 world  record holders, several National champs, and soon the gym was chuck full of Olympic lifting and shot put world champions!
Bob Kemper was done lifting in organized competitions but he continued to lift and BLOW PEOPLES MINDS!
He could do one arm curls on an incline with an Olympic bar with a weight that you wouldn't believe if I told you! He had the reputation of going into gyms with a leather jacket, sun glasses, and a Gilligan's Island Hat and doing strange and jaw-dropping feats-of strength!
In the music world we call this "cutting".
Where a guy goes to a club or bar and gets up and blows the other guitar player off the stage.
Clearly no one could do the lifts that Kemper did. He had pressed 424lbs
(the American Record to this day)
I just wondered what happened to this
beast of a man?

[johnbeau]

Sounds like a great gym. I'd love to add it to my database of gyms in Californai http://www.gymvisit.com/findagym.htm?loc=n_america/usa/california ..if you know any details could you email me john@gymvisit.com