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/

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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.

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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

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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

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opened in 1967
Toronto Canada (1978)

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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.

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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