Singapore: California Fitness was once the talk of the town with three floors of top-notch equipment in the heart of Orchard Road, and those cool glass walls which gave gawkers a chance to admire the lean bodies exercising within.
Introduced as a tie-up between American fitness guru Ray Wilson and a Hong Kong-based property company, it was considered revolutionary when it entered the Singapore market in January 1998. The mega-gym made fitness fashionable.
