Historic Boxing Gyms

[Expug]

The Windy City gym was a long time mainstay. That, Garfield park, Fuller park, Woodlawn boys club, the CYO gym, the US arena, those were the pro gyms back in my time. The 70s and 80s.

[Caractacus]

The Johnny Coulon gym/Windy City gym was/is located at 5411 East 63rd st in Chicago.
It re-opened in 2018.

https://windycityboxing.com/our-history/

https://windycityboxing.com/blog/claren ... b-is-back/

[Caractacus]

at about 1 hour : 18 minutes into this film, you can see Johnny Coulon's gym as it looked in July 1968,
and see Johnny Coulon himself (at age 78 yrs) and his wife Marie .

[Expug]

The Johnny Coulon gym/Windy City gym was/is located at 5411 East 63rd st in Chicago.
It re-opened in 2018.

https://windycityboxing.com/our-history/

https://windycityboxing.com/blog/claren ... b-is-back/

I believe Sam Colona now owns it. He trains fighters there also.

[Caractacus]

1)Gleason's Gym (1937-1974)
Lower Bronx
434 Westchester Avenue

https://gleasonsgym.com/gym-history

2) Manhattan NYC
252 West 30th St. (1974-1984)

3) Brooklyn New York
location (since 1987)
-2024-

[Caractacus]

Jake La Motta was part owner of The Park Sporting Club in the
Bronx in the mid-1940's .
It had once been the Blenheim Theater
https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/6104

(Jake LAMotta had said he had been thrown out of there
years earlier as a yoot for roughing the place up)

https://nytimes.com/1945/07/29/archives ... arena.html

[Caractacus]

The Jack Johnson Athletic Club which opened in Spring of 1926.
at 424 E. 47th street in Chicago.

https://books.google.com/books?id=ZhomA ... &pg=PA8&dq

[Caractacus]

opened in 1967
Toronto Canada (1978)

[Caractacus]

Times Square Boxing Club
42nd street and just east of 7th avenue in Manhattan NYC
(operated by Jimmy Glenn in the 1980's)

[gilgamesh]

Some of the most famous ones I can think of

The Kronk Gym
The Wildcard Gym
Gleason's Gym
Joe Frazier's Gym

I'm sure there were many others over the years and decades that were famous at one time, but have come and gone.

[Caractacus]

The Pine Street YMCA in St. Louis.
(1919-1960)
Henry Armstrong, Joe Louis, Archie Moore, had all worked out there (to name a few)
Monroe Harrison had been the boxing coach who would later train Sonny Liston in the early 1950'S too.

https://theclio.com/entry/97018

[Caractacus]

-2017-

[Seamus]

That address for Coulon's Gym is wrong, it should be 1154 East 63rd-St. The other address doesn't exist as it would be out in the lake.

[Caractacus]

Could be that the city changed address since then ? particularly street names.

[Expug]

Chicago is and as far as I know always was , at least since the Chicago fire , laid out in a grid pattern with 800 , 8 blocks, representing a mile.
That address , 5411 e 47th would be almost 7 miles east of state street. That would be in the lake.

[Caractacus]

You are correct sir.
must have been a typo.
Johnny Coulon's gymnasium was actually located at 1154 E. 63rd Street in Chicago
(tucked into the third floor next to the elevated tracks))

[Caractacus]

The Solar Park Sporting Club (c.1974)
146 W. 28th Street Manhattan's West Side
(I think this was previously known as the City Parks League Gym where he had trained Emile Griffith in the late 1950's/early 1960's.)