Jack LaLanne was not only one of the greatest fitness influencers of his generation, having established the first fitness TV show on US television but was also a classmate of my Dad’s.
Bob Kurtz Sr. was one grade younger than Jack LaLanne having been born in 1916. They attended Berkely High School and played on the football team together. Bob Sr. played as a lineman while LaLanne was quarterback and always spoke very kindly of him
Though Jack LaLanne later developed a reputation for being a vain and self-centered bodybuilder who posed for publicity in any way he could, I always found him to be a generous and personable man.
The well spoken LaLanne defied the dumb bodybuilder stereotype and went on to become the first bodybuilder to have his own morning TV show which ran nationally in syndication 1951-1985.
When I got old enough and went to visit his Gym in Oakland, they recognized my name
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