The 'what ever happened to?' Thread.

[Velorum]

Proper wrestlers

[dkpw]

Proper wrestlers

You have taken me back to the very early seventies, watching the wrestling on Saturday evenings with my Granny. She was outraged at the injustice, when the "good guy" lost and the villain won, but she loved it! I remember McManus and the blonde wrestler 2nd from the left, who was in the terminology of those days, a "pansy" but was also a really nasty piece of work. Even at the age of 8 or so I could tell it was fixed, but I couldn't convince my granny of that. :)

[Passenger]

Substitute Grand-dad for Granny and I have similar memories.

[dkpw]

Substitute Grand-dad for Granny and I have similar memories.

Yes, it's funny how animated my 72 year old and unwell granny became watching it!

[Velorum]

I too watched it with my grandmother who loved it - becoming very animated especially when Mick McManus made an appearance. "Pull his ears!" she would shout "he doesn't like that!"

The blond one is Adrian Street. His gimmick was flouncing around like a pansy (acceptable term in the 70's) in reality like the rest of them he was as hard as nails. He went on to wrestle in America into his early 70's and according to Google now runs a wrestling costume business there.

I always liked to watch Les Kellet, who played the punch drunk clown much of the time only to land the killer move at a critical time. Again, reputed to be a real hard man despite his village idiot persona in the ring.

They don't make entertainers like these guys anymore.

[Puntsdog]

I saw a picture of Les Kellet with a donkey in a headlock once. Made me laugh.

[5avvy]

Jackanory, what a great show. How many of the great and good would read the stories for next to nothing today?

They still do - cbeebies bedtime hour story.

[Devonian]

Ronnie Pickering?

[Alpha4]

Where's Kendo Nagasaki?

[Pino]

All of the old costumes from Rainbow?

[magirus]

Ah yes, wrestlers. Jackie Pallo, Steve Logan, Masambula, Honey Boy Zimba, Bert Royal et al. Happy Saturdays...

[Itsguy]

"Shank's pony"
"Jack Robinson"

There must be many others...

[yumma]

[IMG]

As a former draftsman, I used to use these old ink rubbers as a means of polishing up my tracing film after scratching out a drafting pen mistake. I was quite late in adopting AutoCAD; going into a shop and asking the assistant "if they had any abrasive rubbers" was often met with mirth and amusement.

[Jimmcb]

You have taken me back to the very early seventies, watching the wrestling on Saturday evenings with my Granny. She was outraged at the injustice, when the "good guy" lost and the villain won, but she loved it! I remember McManus and the blonde wrestler 2nd from the left, who was in the terminology of those days, a "pansy" but was also a really nasty piece of work. Even at the age of 8 or so I could tell it was fixed, but I couldn't convince my granny of that. :)

Are you old enough to remember the eldorado wrestling hall in leith near the state picture house (never a cinema in those days) and the Leith Hospital and its Nurses Home??

[SilentBob]

Facebook happened!


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[Velorum]

TV21

[RobDad]

TV21

My Mother did a lot of the art work for TV21, she's got a fair few original drawings and paintings squirreled away, mostly of various iconic vehicles. Must get her to dig them out!

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[Velorum]

My Mother did a lot of the art work for TV21, she's got a fair few original drawings and paintings squirreled away, mostly of various iconic vehicles. Must get her to dig them out!

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Would love to see some pics of those!

[Harry Smith]

Speaking of 'caps' I suppose traditional cap guns are no more.

A few of us had these in the 60's



A combined cap and spud gun. The slight increase in pressure caused by the cap going off would be enough to expel the spud for quite a distance.

I suspect that you would be arrested for taking one to school these days. We used to carry then in our blazer pockets and shoot each other on a regular basis.

I had one in Derringer stylee.
But I got bored and turned it into a 'Zip gun' that would fire .22 rimfires. Them were the days.

[Harry Smith]

Umbongo
Crispy cod fries
Devo
Dirty old men in raincoats (we used to laugh about it now they get locked up)

[Dave+63]

Umbongo)

They still drink it in the Congo!

[Mr Curta]

Jokes on lolly sticks

[aamaci]

Spangles

[oldoakknives]

Whatever happened to 'The 'what ever happened to?' thread?

And it's back!

[Neil.C]

Whatever happened to 'The 'what ever happened to?' thread?

And it's back!

I noticed, and have just read through the whole thread again.

Still as apropos as ever but a lot of the old regulars seem to have disappeared.

[Alpha4]

Proper wrestlers

Can someone name all these wrestlers for me please? I've forgotten most of them.

[blackal]

Can someone name all these wrestlers for me please? I've forgotten most of them.

from the left.

1 ?
2. Jackie Pallo? (or someone younger?)
3. Pat Roach
4. Mick McMannus
5. Honeyboy Zimba?
6. ?

[Mr Curta]

Can someone name all these wrestlers for me please? I've forgotten most of them.

Robby Baron, Adrian Street, Bruno Elrington, Mick McManus, Johnny Kwango and Mike Marino

[blackal]

Robby Baron, Adrian Street, Bruno Elrington, Mick McManus, Johnny-Kwango and Mike-Marino

Of course!

[monogroover]

No Kendo Nagasaki?

[mondie]

from the left.

1 ?
2. Jackie Pallo? (or someone younger?)
3. Pat Roach
4. Mick McMannus
5. Honeyboy Zimba?
6. ?

So they really are wrestlers? When I saw this pic I thought it was a bunch of musicians dicking around.

1. Bruce Springsteen
2.
3. Demis Roussos
4. Paul Simon
5.
6. Lyle Lovett

Opps

[Harry Smith]

Comedy

Frank Carson
Stan Boardman
Charlie Williams
Mick Miller
Roy Walker
And the rest.......

[Jimmcb]

Of course!

Was gonna say Al, Mr C got them right.

Eldorado in Leith was the place to go and see these guys. Before the likes of Shirley Crabtree and Giant Haystacks.

Jim

[Jimmcb]

WEHT Spanish Gold and Puff Candy sweets!

Jim