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Aerobics and ale

High school track-and-field coach and PE teacher Gigi Kody was the aerobics instructor teaching classes at a Madison Street bar twice a week in 1987. Side Kicks, at 7801 Madison St., which hosted the class, was said to be less intimidating than health clubs, because “people with a not-so-perfect body can come in old sweats […]