Kampsportshistoriker og kampsportsutøver
Det var veldig kaldt om morgenen på søndag, Desember 5, 1880, about 2 på morgenen, when St. Louis politibetjent Sheehan fant inngangsdøren åpen for John R. Lionbergers hjem. På grunn av bitter kulde, Sheehan fryktet innbruddstyver hadde kommet inn i boligen. Sheehan ringte gjentatte ganger, men kunne ikke vekke noen inne. Sheehan begynte å rappe nattstokken sin mot 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 Død (1943) er løst basert på eventyr av Musgrave Ritual. Den korte historien ble publisert i The Strand Magazine i løpet av mai 1893. Det ble senere samlet i Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. I historien, Musgrave Mansion holdt hemmelig at selv det er innbyggere visste ikke. This film follows the same plot line
Få hendelser sjokkerte St. Louis liker plikten til Lt. Sidney Sears i juni 1924. For nesten 30 år, Lt. Sears ble ansett som det beste pistolskuddet på St. Louis Police Department. I 1904, Sears var også National Pistol Champion i USA. For at noen skal drepe Lt. Sears i en skuddveksling ble ansett som umulig.
1802 N. Jefferson Avenue was a two-family flat built in 1890 and located in the St. Louis Place-området. 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 bildene 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) star
Dominant champions like William Muldoon often had to accept handicap conditions to get fans interested in watching them wrestle. Siden fansen bare anså Clarence Whistler som dyktig nok til å virkelig true hans regjeringstid, Muldoon would often generate interest by either performing feats of strength or taking on the challenge of handicap conditions. Mai 5, 1885, Muldoon met Matsuda Sorokichi, som
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947) er den siste oppføringen i “B” film serie. RKO Pictures tok serier over fra Republic Pictures, som lanserte den originale Dick Tracy serier på slutten av 1930-tallet og begynnelsen av 1940-tallet. RKO Pictures sluppet filmen på kino på 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