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cdnsoldier
31-05-2009, 12:55 PM
This is a long shot but I wonder if any of you are Kelly alumni? It was a very hardcore gym on Dufferin circa 1990's.(Toronto)

Anyone remember the place?
zippythewonder
02-06-2009, 12:59 PM
Hilarious! I used to live around the corner from the gym I didn't go there for very long, but I had a membership there for a little while. Too funny! ; )
cdnsoldier
02-06-2009, 04:45 PM
Hilarious! I used to live around the corner from the gym I didn't go there for very long, but I had a membership there for a little while. Too funny! ; )


LOL. That place was WILD!!! It was an "anything" goes gym. I stopped going once things got "too heavy". ie. HA selling "other" stuff in there.

Kelly ended up comitting suicide in 98 I think. All the lunatics then moved to that 5 buck a day gym on Dufferin/St.Clair- Those were some fun days.
zippythewonder
03-06-2009, 08:54 AM
Yes it was certainly an anything goes kinda gym. I was quite amazed at the time with just how "loose" things were in that gym. I think Kelly's (?) wife was even bigger than him! HAA HAAA!! I've wondered about that place a few times. I lived near the corner of Dufferin and Rogers Road back then.
cdnsoldier
03-06-2009, 12:49 PM
Yes it was certainly an anything goes kinda gym. I was quite amazed at the time with just how "loose" things were in that gym. I think Kelly's (?) wife was even bigger than him! HAA HAAA!! I've wondered about that place a few times. I lived near the corner of Dufferin and Rogers Road back then.

Yeah it's the only gym I worked out in where the hand chalk was not always hand chalk.
zippythewonder
04-06-2009, 09:37 AM
HAA HAAA!!! Good to meet you here. I guess it would be safe to say that you're in the Canadian Military? ; ) I'm not in the service but I live in Oromocto, New Brunswick, the town hooked to Camp Gagetown. Just wanted to say thanks for doing your job!

Cheers man.
cdnsoldier
04-06-2009, 01:23 PM
HAA HAAA!!! Good to meet you here. I guess it would be safe to say that you're in the Canadian Military? ; ) I'm not in the service but I live in Oromocto, New Brunswick, the town hooked to Camp Gagetown. Just wanted to say thanks for doing your job!

Cheers man.

Thanks man. I just became a civilian June 1st. Back to regular life for me.
zippythewonder
04-06-2009, 01:49 PM
Awesome. My neighbor is over in his third tour of Iraq and is hoping that when he gets back that he'll be posted at the school. I hope so too.

Any way. I hope your well and enjoying life! ; )