[Mikey Osmond]

Anybody here from the Northeast watch wrestling hosted by the announcer Ray Morgan in the late '50s to early '60s and remember Antonino Rocca, Buddy Rogers, Johnny Valentine, Karl Von Hess, Ricki Starr, Sailor Art Thomas, Cowboy Bob Ellis, Sweet Daddy Siki, Handsome Johnny Barend, Chief Big Heart, The Fabulous Kangaroos, The Graham Brothers, Tolos Brothers, The Bastien Brothers and Mark Lewin/Don Curtis?

[alwann]

Originally Posted by Mikey Osmond

Anybody here from the Northeast watch wrestling hosted by the announcer Ray Morgan in the late '50s to early '60s and remember Antonino Rocca, Buddy Rogers, Johnny Valentine, Karl Von Hess, Ricki Starr, Sailor Art Thomas, Cowboy Bob Ellis, Sweet Daddy Siki, Handsome Johnny Barend, Chief Big Heart, The Fabulous Kangaroos, The Graham Brothers, Tolos Brothers, The Bastien Brothers and Mark Lewin/Don Curtis?

Rocca was my grandmother's favorite. She was 83. She thought it was real. "Why doesn't the ref see that Nazi is hiding a piece of glass?"

[Mikey Osmond]

Originally Posted by alwann

Rocca was my grandmother's favorite. She was 83. She thought it was real. "Why doesn't the ref see that Nazi is hiding a piece of glass?"

Glass? Wow! I've heard of brass knuckles. Sounds like Von Hess was employing some interesting tactics.

[Topspinmo]

In early 60s I remember cowboy bob Giegle, stomper, sheriff sonny Myers mostly in Midwest. Gus Kairus was the promoter.

[BobnBev]

Originally Posted by Mikey Osmond

Anybody here from the Northeast watch wrestling hosted by the announcer Ray Morgan in the late '50s to early '60s and remember Antonino Rocca, Buddy Rogers, Johnny Valentine, Karl Von Hess, Ricki Starr, Sailor Art Thomas, Cowboy Bob Ellis, Sweet Daddy Siki, Handsome Johnny Barend, Chief Big Heart, The Fabulous Kangaroos, The Graham Brothers, Tolos Brothers, The Bastien Brothers and Mark Lewin/Don Curtis?

Did you mean Cowboy Bob ORTIN?

[coffeebean]

Originally Posted by Mikey Osmond

Anybody here from the Northeast watch wrestling hosted by the announcer Ray Morgan in the late '50s to early '60s and remember Antonino Rocca, Buddy Rogers, Johnny Valentine, Karl Von Hess, Ricki Starr, Sailor Art Thomas, Cowboy Bob Ellis, Sweet Daddy Siki, Handsome Johnny Barend, Chief Big Heart, The Fabulous Kangaroos, The Graham Brothers, Tolos Brothers, The Bastien Brothers and Mark Lewin/Don Curtis?

I grew up on Long Island, NY. I never followed wrestling but I do remember one name.......Bruno Sammartino.

[Mikey Osmond]

Originally Posted by BobnBev

Did you mean Cowboy Bob ORTIN?

No, not Orton. He came yrs later. Ellis was a top name in the late '50s and early '60s in several territories.

[davem4616]

My dad used to watch wrestling back in that era, but it was broadcast during the afternoon on Saturday....once and a while I'd watch a match with him.....I never could figure out if he truly believed any of it was real...he got back into watching it big time when he retired in the early 80's

Killer Kowalski was one of his favorites...I seem to recall the show he watched was referred to as "Chicago Big Time Wrestling"...not sure which one of the Boston TV stations carried it

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by davem4616

My dad used to watch wrestling back in that era, but it was broadcast during the afternoon on Saturday....once and a while I'd watch a match with him.....I never could figure out if he truly believed any of it was real...he got back into watching it big time when he retired in the early 80's

Killer Kowalski was one of his favorites...I seem to recall the show he watched was referred to as "Chicago Big Time Wrestling"...not sure which one of the Boston TV stations carried it

When I was a kid many years ago, wrestling was called Bedlam from Boston and believe Kowalski was the star back than

[davem4616]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

When I was a kid many years ago, wrestling was called Bedlam from Boston and believe Kowalski was the star back than

Kowalski did run a wrestling school out of Malden, Massachusetts (which is close to Beantown)

[Topspinmo]

Found this site.

Gus Karras << Missouri Wrestling Revival

[charlieo1126@gmail.com]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

When I was a kid many years ago, wrestling was called Bedlam from Boston and believe Kowalski was the starback than

He had a claw hold he would use ,in later years he had a school for wrestling and some of the modern stars came through he used to work out at a gym in later years in Boston and couldn’t have been more nice

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by charlieo1126@gmail.com

He had a claw hold he would use ,in later years he had a school for wrestling and some of the modern stars came through he used to work out at a gym in later years in Boston and couldn’t have been more nice

Some years ago there was a wrestler called George the Animal Steele who used to act crazy and wrip apart turnbuckles with his teeth.

Sat near him on a plane once and he could not have been nicer.

[BobnBev]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

Some years ago there was a wrestler called George the Animal Steele who used to act crazy and wrip apart turnbuckles with his teeth.

Sat near him on a plane once and he could not have been nicer.

Saw him at a campground in Wyoming....a hairy son of a gun.

We watched wrestling when we lived in New Jersey. My sister got Haystack Calhoun’s autograph and talked to him a little at a restaurant. He was a great guy.