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unusual facts about Gleason's Gym


Najah Ali

After securing their Olympic spot, Ali and Watkins moved to New York, where they began to train at the legendary Gleason's Gym.


1954 Missouri Tigers baseball team

Missouri defeated Oklahoma A&M Aggies 7-3 in the behind a strong outing from starting pitcher Norm Stewart and home runs from Jerry Schoonmaker and George Gleason.

Alan Bamberger

It serves all parties in bringing a real time discussion of the arts into play, between articles and news stories posted by Alan Bamberger and Mat Gleason on the west coast and a New York discussion centered around art Critic Jerry Saltz of New York Magazine.

Alice Doria-Gamilla

It was later recorded by Bobbi Martin of the "Jackie Gleason Show" in the United States under Coral Records.

Better as a Memory

The co-writers of the song are both pseudonymous: Scooter Carusoe is a pseudonym for Travis Hill, founder of Carnival Music, and Lady Goodman is a pseudonym of Holly Gleason, Chesney's publicist and a music critic.

Charles Biro

For Lev Gleason, Biro helped to create the Crime comics genre with the landmark title Crime Does Not Pay (1942–1955), which he edited along with Bob Wood.

Charles H. Tenney

The Tenney Memorial Chapel, designed by architect Grosvenor Atterbury, and located within the Walnut Grove Cemetery was dedicated (1927) by Daniel Gleason Tenney in memory of his parents.

Chris Koepplin

Koepplin attended kicking camps in 2010 but was unable to draw any interest from professional teams and went to work as a personal trainer at Gold's Gym.

Further Seems Forever

With Gleason they re-recorded their cover version of "Say It Ain't So" for the compilation Rock Music: A Tribute to Weezer with Gleason's version appearing on the CD and Carraba's version appearing as a vinyl only bonus track.

Gleason, Tennessee

Ashley McElhiney, attended Gleason School and won the Tennessee State 1A Miss Basketball in 1999.

Gleason's theorem

More formally, a quantum logic is a set of events that is closed under a countable disjunction of countably many mutually exclusive events.

Harry Gleason

Harry Gilbert Gleason (March 28, 1875 – October 21, 1961) was a utility infielder/outfielder in Major League Baseball who played from 1901 through 1905 for the Boston Americans (1901–03) and St. Louis Browns (1904–05).

Herbert Gleason

Jackie Gleason (John Herbert Gleason, 1916–1987), American comedian, actor and musician

IOCOM

Founded in 1998 by Kevin Gleason and Michael Galich, and has an advisory board which includes Edward Zander, former Sprint Nextel executive John Garcia and Ian Foster Though based in Chicago, services are offered worldwide.

Jack Gleason

From 18841885 Gleason played for the St. Louis Maroons during their only season in the Union Association and their first in the National League.

Jill Stevens

Additionally, Jill has been a fitness instructor for Gold's Gym for several years, as well as a bread baker for Great Harvest.

Jim Schwantz

Schwantz is also a contributor to the WBBM 780AM Chicago Bears Broadcast Team along with former players Jay Hilgenberg and Tom Thayer, plus announcers Jeff Joniak and Ron Gleason.

Joe E. Ross

Jackie Gleason had already been playing there for 16 weeks, and the manager was about to ask Gleason to stay a while longer.

Kid Gleason

Gleason has been referenced in pop culture in several books, and is a prominent supporting character in Ring Lardner's 1916 novel You Know Me Al.

Mary Quinn Sullivan

Mary Quinn Sullivan (November 24, 1877 – December 5, 1939) was born Mary Josephine Quinn in Indianapolis, Indiana to Thomas F. Quinn and Anne E. Gleason Quinn; she was a pioneer modern art collector and one of the founding trustees of the Museum of Modern Art.

Mr. Billion

Kaplan says the highlight was working with Jackie Gleason; despite his drinking problem, Kaplan says he could sober up Gleason by doing old routines from The Honeymooners and getting laughs from the crew.

Murder on a Honeymoon

This was the third and last time Oliver portrayed astute schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and Gleason the New York City Police Inspector Oscar Piper; the two previous films were The Penguin Pool Murder (1932) and Murder on the Blackboard (1934).

Nashville Rhythm

McElhiney's firing was overturned and she returned to coach on February 5 for a game with the St. Louis Flight in her hometown of Gleason, Tennessee which was lost 130-114.

Ralph J. Gleason

Gleason was a contributing editor to Ramparts, a prominent leftist magazine based in San Francisco, but quit after editor Warren Hinckle criticized the city's growing hippie population.

In the later 1960s, Gleason was a widely respected commentator and he chose to write supportively of the better cut of the Bay Area rock bands, such as Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead.

Red Bastien

In his retirement, Bastien became a trainer and a promoter, and discovered future wrestlers Steve "Sting" Borden and Jim "The Ultimate Warrior" Hellwig at a Gold's Gym and convinced them to become professional wrestlers.

Riku Kiri

His background is in security work, and he holds shares in Gold's Gym-Helsinki.

Robi Domingo

Domingo is also an endorser, and among the brands that he has endorsed, is still endorsing or is affiliated with at present time are: Nokia, Bench, Coca-Cola, Jollibee, Skechers, Globe Telecom, Adidas, Wade Shoes, Gold's Gym, RayBan, The Body Shop, Your Own Time and Folded & Hung.

Roy Gleason

Gleason also appeared in the TV series Branded, playing alongside Chuck Connors, and was considered for the lead role in the film Doubles Brigade.

San Francisco Sound

Soon after, Ralph J. Gleason and Jann Wenner, based in San Francisco, established Rolling Stone magazine (first issue's date: November 1967).

Shinya Hashimoto Memorial Legacy Cup Tournament

The 2008 Shinya Hashimoto Memorial Tournament was an 8-man single elimination tournament held on July 11, 2008, at Gold's Gym in Limerick, Pennsylvania.

Steve Gleason

In 2013 Gleason was given the opportunity to interview American rock band Pearl Jam regarding their tenth studio album, Lightning Bolt.

The Fillmore

Live Nation has recently begun a campaign to expand the Fillmore "brand" by changing the names of a number of established clubs it owns around the U.S. This includes clubs in Denver, Detroit, the Fillmore at the TLA in Philadelphia, the Fillmore at Irving Plaza in New York City, and the Fillmore at the Jackie Gleason Theatre in Miami Beach, Florida.

The Jackie Gleason Show

Gleason also occasionally portrayed Stanley R. Sogg, a late-night movie pitchman for Mother Fletcher's products ("No-Cal Chicken Fat"), similar to the later Art Fern character played by Johnny Carson in his "Tea Time Movie" skits on The Tonight Show.

The Nosh Bar

The Nosh Bar was frequented by many boxers as well as boxing managers and promoters, owing to its proximity to Jack Solomon's Gym in nearby Ham Yard and it was a favourite of the showgirls from the Windmill Theatre.

The Sportswriters on TV

Bill Jauss, Bill Gleason, Ben Bentley, Joe Mooshill, Lester Munson, and Rick Telander were the usual writers discussing the sports issues of the day, and the show was a forerunner of many of the sportswriter TV shows that are much more common now (The Sports Reporters, Pardon the Interruption, Around the Horn, etc.).

Tina Wesson

Although Wesson caused the Ogakor tribe to lose the Episode 2 Immunity Challenge, her alliance with Amber Brkich, Colby Donaldson, Jerri Manthey and Mitchell Olson voted out Kel Gleason and Maralyn Hershey.

Tom Magee

Later, Magee worked as a trainer at the world famous Gold's Gym in Venice Beach, California.

Vinyl Confessions

After a long audition process, the choice came down to three strong candidates: Warren Ham, Michael Gleason and John Elefante.


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