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    Quote Originally Posted by Cotton1 View Post
    Gorgeous George was a punk coward
    Ricky Steamboat and Wahoo McDanial.

    Jumping Johnny Defazio?

    My all time favorite - Ivan "The Polish Hammer" Putzki.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cotton1 View Post
    Gorgeous George was a punk coward
    My grandmother loved Gorgeous George. She also thought Liberace was straight. Her and my mom would fight over it. My Mom would yell "Ma he's a $#@!eleh who sucks off his brother." Grandma
    Would insist that he had a girl friend. Those were the days.

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    Gorgeous George is old school as hell lol.

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    My best memory of telivision was the moon landing it impressed me. And I eventally ended up working on the shuttle and eelv programs .

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    I was in the program office of space shuttle. I also was working on Centaur and began in 1960 on the Atlas missile (which was the work horse of all launches for 20 years).
    Last edited by AZ Jim; 07-07-2019 at 11:34 PM.
    Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I digress....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    I was born after color was invented. I can't imagine a world of black and white.
    I thought we were high tech when my dad bought a device which rotated our antenna from the living room.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tahuyaman View Post
    I thought we were high tech when my dad bought a device which rotated our antenna from the living room.
    LOL YEP! 40' mast with a huge array of aluminum on top and a rotor, how could it get any better. Right?
    Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I digress....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain Obvious View Post
    Ricky Steamboat and Wahoo McDanial.

    Jumping Johnny Defazio?

    My all time favorite - Ivan "The Polish Hammer" Putzki.
    I liked Dusty Rhodes and the Anderson Brothers. Remember the Japanese guy " pak saung"? He'd come out hand chop the opponant a few times and it was over.

    Quote Originally Posted by bulletbob View Post
    My best memory of telivision was the moon landing it impressed me. And I eventally ended up working on the shuttle and eelv programs .
    one on my best tv memories.

    Quote Originally Posted by EvilCat Breath View Post
    My grandmother loved Gorgeous George. She also thought Liberace was straight. Her and my mom would fight over it. My Mom would yell "Ma he's a $#@!eleh who sucks off his brother." Grandma
    Would insist that he had a girl friend. Those were the days.
    You mean Liberace wasnt straight ?
    I'm yo.
    This my brother yo
    We yo yo

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    Quote Originally Posted by AZ Jim View Post
    In 1948 my Dad bought a 13" Hoffman EZ vision b&W TV. At night our little family sat in front of it mesmerized by the miracle of pictures over the air. Those are great memories.
    A little before my time, but I do remember my families first colored TV and first stereo.

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    Indianapolis was on the pro wrestling circuit in the early '60s. I got my father to take me to see it at the Coliseum a couple of times, but mostly I watched on t.v. My favorite wrestler was Wilbur Snyder, a former pro football player with a clean-cut image.



    There was also Blackjack Lanza - I can't find any mention of it in his bio, but I swear he began his career as a good guy called Cowboy Lanza - who was managed by Bobby Heenan, a prissy, awful little guy with a very punchable face; everybody hated him, which of course was the point. Lanza is 83 now, but I think he's still associated with some current wrestling association.

    Verne Gagne, Ernie Ladd (also a former football player), Prince Pullins, Dick the Bruiser.

    I remember still being jazzed about the moon landings and other space events long after my friends had lost interest. I recall going to school one day after seeing Alan Shepherd of Apollo 14 hit a golf ball on the moon and telling others about it and they were like, "Yeah, whatever". In the early days of launches, the teachers would have a t.v. set up in the classroom. By the time of Apollo 13, with all the drama surrounding whether they'd make it back alive, there was a t.v. on in the school library, but I was one of the few who bothered to watch the reentry and recovery.

    On the subject of space, one of my first t.v. memories was of a show called Men Into Space when I was five and six, in 1959-60.




    It was pretty unambitious as far as sci-fi goes - more of a near-future look at what near space travel would be like, but I was a big fan. I even had a plastic Colonel McCauley (he was the main character of the show) space helmet and lunch box. About fifteen years ago, I was feeling particularly nostalgic and bought one of the helmets on eBay; eventually re-sold it for about a third what I paid for it. It wasn't mine, so it didn't really mean anything to me. Some things you just can't get back.
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