Kampsportshistoriker og kampsportskunstner
Det var meget koldt søndag morgen, December 5, 1880, about 2 a.m., when St. Louis politibetjent Sheehan fandt hoveddøren åben til John R. Lionbergers hjem. På grund af den bitre kulde, Sheehan frygtede, at indbrudstyve var kommet ind i boligen. Sheehan ringede gentagne gange på klokken, men kunne ikke vække nogen indeni. Sheehan begyndte at slå sin natpind mod den
Over the next three weeks, I will be releasing posts, which are excerpts from the book I’m currently working on and one from a previously published book. The following unedited story is from the book I’m working on which will be released in the Fall or early Winter 2017. William Rudolph proved elusive after his Independence Day escape from the
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943) is loosely based on The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual. The short story was published in The Strand Magazine during May 1893. It was later compiled in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. In the story, the Musgrave Mansion held a secret that even it’s inhabitants did not know. This film follows the same plot line
Få begivenheder chokerede St. Louis som Lt. Sidney Sears i juni 1924. For næsten 30 år, Lt. Sears blev betragtet som det bedste pistolskud på St. Louis Police Department. I 1904, Sears var også National Pistol Champion i USA. For nogen at dræbe Lt. Sears i en skudveksling blev anset for umuligt.
1802 N. Jefferson Avenue was a two-family flat built in 1890 and located in the St. Louis Place kvarter. I originally wrote about the building in 2013 but it was demolished sometime before March 2015. The building is part of an area being developed for a government complex in St. Louis, so it was not able to be saved. Disse billeder er
I’ve been on an Alan Ladd kick lately. When I was still in college, I watched a number of Alan Ladd films one summer. I’ve been watching them over again the last few weeks on Amazon Prime. I’ll share some of these films over the next few months. The first film I watched was Thunder in the East (1951) starring
Dominant champions like William Muldoon often had to accept handicap conditions to get fans interested in watching them wrestle. Siden fans kun anså Clarence Whistler for dygtig nok til virkelig at true hans regeringstid, Muldoon would often generate interest by either performing feats of strength or taking on the challenge of handicap conditions. Den maj 5, 1885, Muldoon met Matsuda Sorokichi, der
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947) is the final entry in “B” film series. RKO Pictures took the series over from Republic Pictures, who released the original Dick Tracy serials in the late 1930s and early 1940s. RKO Pictures released the film to theaters on September 26, 1947. RKO brought Boris Karloff in to play Gruesome, one of Dick Tracy’s arch
When thinking about African American history month, I thought about the first great Black wrestler that I saw personally. When I started watching wrestling in St. Louis during 1979, “Sailor” Art Thomas wrestled regularly on Wrestling at the Chase, our local weekly wrestling show. Wrestling at the Chase aired every Sunday at 11 a.m. on KPLR Channel 11. Although Thomas
When Frank Gotch retired as World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion after beating Georg Lurich in his last match, promoters scrambled to find a successor. Samuel Rachmann tried to put forth his own champion by hosting the 1915 International Wrestling Tournament in New York City. Rachmann wanted his challenger Aberg to win the tournament and be recognized by the public as the