Storiku tal-Isport tal-Ġlieda u Artist Marzjali
1802 N. Jefferson Avenue was a two-family flat built in 1890 and located in the St. Lokal Louis Post. 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. Dawn l-istampi huma
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. Peress li l-partitarji qiesu biss lil Clarence Whistler b'ħiliet biżżejjed biex verament jhedded ir-renju tiegħu, Muldoon would often generate interest by either performing feats of strength or taking on the challenge of handicap conditions. Fuq Mejju 5, 1885, Muldoon met Matsuda Sorokichi, li
Dick Tracy Tiltaqa makabri (1947) hija l-entrata finali “B” serje film. RKO Pictures ħa l-serje aktar minn mir-Repubblika Pictures, li rilaxxati l-serje Dick Tracy oriġinali fis-snin 1930 tard u 1940s kmieni. RKO Pictures rilaxxati l-film li teatri dwar Settembru 26, 1947. RKO miġjuba Boris Karloff fi jilagħbu makabri, 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
1909 kienet probabbilment l-agħar sena tal-ħajja Parker Lonzo Bator Zimmerman tal. Huwa tilef kemm tifla għaxar xahar qadima tiegħu Ida Mejju Zimmerman u tieni mara tiegħu Mellie Bollinger Zimmerman. Qabel il-mewt Parker fil-Cape Giraurdeau Tornado tal 1949, he would bury two more of his children. Both of them were adults. I can only imagine how hard 1909
Fuq Jannar 29, 1940, First National Pictures, the Warner Brothers “B” film company, released the spy thriller British Intelligence (1940). The film is set in Britain during World War I. Released almost two years before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the film showed that Hollywood and probably most of the countries sympathies were with Britain and the Allies. While British
Fuq Novembru 1908, three bishops and an abbot dedicated St. Francis de Sales Church, “the Cathedral of South St. Louis”. Built to serve the growing German Catholic population in St. Louis, the huge church would become the home to many families including my great grandparents, Eduard and Magdalena Mosblech, and their 14 tfal. Il St. Louis Arċidjoċesi ddedikat il-knisja
Il-Tournament Wrestling Internazzjonali seħħet f'żewġ fażijiet, bejn Mejju 19, 1915 u Diċembru 31, 1915. Ħamsin wrestlers tikkompetix fl-ewwel fażi tal-kampjonat inkluż World Greco-Roman Champion Aleksander “Alex” Åberg. T-tieni pagament kellhom 40 wrestlers inklużi up u ġejjin star Ed “Strangler” Lewis, who joined a month into the tournament on November 22, 1915. Il-
