Muscle Beach, Venice

The original "Muscle Beach was in Santa Monica, and after it closed, bodybuilding attention shifted south to a small weight pen in Venice Beach. Later, this large current facility was built, as part of the revitalization of Venice in 1990. Arnold Schwarzenegger worked out here! This is a photograph of the new building, which you notice has a huge concrete barbell on the roof, and bleachers for spectators. It seemed more dramatic at sunset, but it needed something else - a figure. Maybe a weightlifter! I stood here for 30 minutes, but no weightlifter was to be seen, so out of the passers-by that I photographed, I chose this one.