We've gotten a thank you note from Jean and Bob's son Robert, quoting:
August 2012
This letter is to thank all the people in the muscle world that have kept my father's dream alive for all these years. Bob Zuver and his Dream of Zuver's Hall of Fame Gym have been written about hundreds of times in news papers, magazines and so many websites over the years and it continues on today thanks to all the people who love the iron game. My father never could have known how famous his dream would become. Pop thought of himself as the Walt Disney of the muscle world. Everything needed to be the biggest, the strongest the best he could build.
He was blessed to have many of the worlds Greatest Weightlifters, Powerlifters, Bodybuilders and worlds strongest men visit and train at his hand built Hall of Fame Gym in Costa Mesa.
As a young boy I was there working beside him to make his dream come true. He worked us days, nights, weekends, even holidays, for when he had something on his mind to build he wouldn't stop till it was the way he wanted it. He wanted everything to be fun so all would enjoy working out and pumping the iron in his dream world gym. Many visitors went on to become the superstar's of today.
I would love to see all of the Greats who visited his gym send in there thoughts about my dad, Bob Zuver and the stories they remember about the old gym back when they visited him. My dad thought a lot of you guys and the great things you have done for the iron world. Mom and I join him in that thought, as do so many others. It's a shame so many of the great old gyms and great men are gone now. The only way the newer generation's of the free weight world will know of how it all got started is by us old timers telling the story. Thanks to this thing they call the Internet, it's easy for the young to hear about the history. But only if the good old boys tell their stories.
So this letter is to thank all of you that have already told your stories and to all who have written articles or will write them in the future. I know there are a lot more great stories out there to be told by the men and woman who came to visit my dad's dream. Come on guys, let's hear them. I heard Dave Yarnell has a new book out about the old west coast gyms and guys who used them, "Great Men, Great Gyms Of the Golden Age" -- Can't wait to read it.
And a special thanks from Bob Zuver's wife Jean and eldest son Robert to
Laree and Dave Draper
Dick Tyler
Ken Leistner (Doc)
Artie Zeller
Richard Sorin
Jeff Preston
Dave Yarnell
And all the rest... too many names, not enough time
Thank You All
Robert
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