Before the internet, if you wanted to buy weightlifting equipment, you looked in the yellow pages for a bricks and mortar store and all the stuff would be York. Now people want more colours than white and black :) and are afraid of it getting scratched.

Got to hit this, sorinex, and the stark center.

@vintageweightspgh

11 ай бұрын

I’m working my way through the same trio!!! I do have a few other stops, but those are the top three.

@ZEvenEsh

11 ай бұрын

DO IT 🤝🤝🤝

Very cool!! I grew up lifting with Yorks in high school. It’s a tragedy York isn’t what it once was.

@vintageweightspgh

11 ай бұрын

Agreed! Thanks so much for watching and commenting.

Aaawwww man, i`m well jealous! I`ve used York gear since the late 80s here in the UK. York has probably been the most available weightlifting/home gym brand here for decades. I`ve used/still using their gloves (back when i actually used gloves. Please don`t mock me, i was only a teen haha!) their belts, weight plates, benches, squat stands, barbell/dumbbells, sit up bench, collars and i`m currently looking into buying one of their multi gyms for my home gym. The bench and sit up/dumbbell bench i used were DECADES old and still going great with zero faults! Highly recommended gear!

@vintageweightspgh

10 ай бұрын

That’s very cool to hear! Thank you so much for watching.

Thank you for sharing those fantastic pieces of old-time strongman history! Enjoy watching it.

@vintageweightspgh

11 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for watching and your comment. I’m happy you enjoyed it. More to come!

Such a cool place! I was there the day they inducted Slims hammer into the museum, good times.

@vintageweightspgh

11 ай бұрын

You told me about that. When I saw the hammer at York, I thought of you!

Great video!

@vintageweightspgh

11 ай бұрын

Thank you!

YEEEESSSS 🏆🏆🏆🏆 Been waiting on this! Thank You, Rob 🤝🤝🤝

@vintageweightspgh

11 ай бұрын

Thank you! Your tour was the inspiration! If anyone hasn’t seen Zach’s tour of York, check it out: kzread.info/dash/bejne/e65rzbGfZbvSaMo.html

@vintageweightspgh

11 ай бұрын

Next time, I think we need to meet at York and do a walk through together!

Super cool tour!!!!

@vintageweightspgh

11 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!!

Sweet!

@vintageweightspgh

11 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Awesome your man. I’ll have to remember to drop by whenever I’m in the area

@vintageweightspgh

11 ай бұрын

Thanks! It’s free. So definitely do. Everything sort of stops in the early 2000s. Hence the need for an update, but there is still such a cool collection of strength history.

I just stopped by, too! It's great to see what you pointed out. There's too much in there to handle without a tour guide, so I'm glad to have you and this video.

@vintageweightspgh

11 ай бұрын

I agree. So much I still need to read and examine when I go back!

It is good to see the Hall of Fame is still open and hearing about renovations is exciting. I am not too far away, I live in the Hershey area and I drive by the museum on the highway all the time. I stopped in once in I think the late 90s and the museum was kind of dusty, so I was worried it might not continue. I grew up just south of York, I have a basement full of over 500lbs of 1 inch standard York plates I inherited from my dad and that I grew up lifting those weights with him, my friends and my brother. I have since added 500lbs of York Olympic plates, mostly old milled York. As a kid my dad took me to a York location which I thought was different from where they are now. I was only 10 years old at the time, so it would have been 1979 or 1980, we bought some dumbbells and some plates that day. I Found your channel recently and I am really enjoying your content.

@vintageweightspgh

Ай бұрын

Thanks so much for watching. That’s a great memory with your father! Very cool.

Good job of capturing the many highlights of this museum and hall of fame. Thanks Rob

@vintageweightspgh

11 ай бұрын

Thank you! I appreciate the support!

We drove to York from Philly , & bought a Olympic bench with red padding loved that bench . Shame they don't make them anymore.

@vintageweightspgh

Ай бұрын

The old red upholstered ones are very cool. I’ll have a video with one out eventually. I just recorded it two weeks ago b

@jimkelly7305

Ай бұрын

@@vintageweightspgh cool 😎😎

That barbell next to Sandow is a barbell some guy had in upstate NY right outside the city around 2007 or so. We spoke on the phone and he said it was Sandow’s and told me he was going to sell it to me. I couldn’t pick it up that day and the next day he had sold it to someone else and it ended up at York. His story about it being Sandow’s didn’t make a lot of sense. I think he said Sandows sister had it, and some how her neighbor had it. I don’t believe Sandow even had a sister. Jan Todd told me they had been offered it too, but the story didn’t hold water so they passed

@vintageweightspgh

11 ай бұрын

Great background information! There wasn’t a placard and the York employee that gave us a tour wasn’t sure. Maybe the uncertainty of its origin is the reason there isn’t a placard! Lol. Thank you for watching and commenting!

Awesome video, thanks for sharing!

@vintageweightspgh

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

I have John Terpak's Olympic jackets from '56 and I think, '84. Should probably see if they would like to have them...

@vintageweightspgh

7 ай бұрын

That’s incredible! How’d you end up with those?

@Ease54

7 ай бұрын

@@vintageweightspgh His daughter put them on ebay, maybe 5 years ago! She threw in some cool photos and pins. Hasn't posted in a while, not sure if she's still with us...

Great vid man!👍

@vintageweightspgh

Ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

@vintageweightspgh

Ай бұрын

Btw love your account name! 💪

@oldnatty61

Ай бұрын

@@vintageweightspgh 👍

Very interesting. I hope you get to the Stark Museum in Austin, TX (if, especially, I never do) and do an overview of that place too. I just heard of it recently, and I'm not sure what exactly they have. What I wish the York museum had is a display of its products through time. I'd like to know -- like many of us out here, I presume -- something about old weight lifting objects we pick up here and there (age, etc.). The York museum, as you frame it, seems to focus on an elite strata of historical lifters. They might broaden their audience with something about the "common man," meaning we slobs out here who pick up old mysterious weight lifting objects (York and otherwise) at flea markets and garage sales. Maybe you're the guy to someday put together some kind of inventory of various gym stuff, with associated dates, etc. through modern history -- York and otherwise. Do you know of any books that address these issues -- a kind of "what's what" and "when"?

@vintageweightspgh

11 ай бұрын

I’m starting to organize my website better. I’m hoping it will serve as a point of reference for strength history enthusiasts. Thanks so much for watching and your comment.

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@vintageweightspgh

11 ай бұрын

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