Well done.  I remember those broadcasts.  

> On Feb 12, 2024, at 11:46 AM, john wymore <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Ah yes.  Wrestlemania.  I remember it well.  It wasn’t called that at the time. That  time was — oh, in the 1940s. TV was black and white and the main attracrtion on these crude sets was their rabbitt ear antenae and a magnifing lense that fit in front of the set to enlarge the picture. The main attraction on  this still novel home entertainment was Your Show of Shows straring Sic Ceasar  and Imogen Coca. AND hold your breath — Wrestling from some arena in Santa Monica. It was obviously faked and everyone knew it but it was the greatest  and  most highly respected public secret of all time. The participants werent as clever nor athletic as they are today but they created great characters, The mostly widely know and a couple of times Marshal of the Rose Parade was Georgeous George.  And gorgeous he was. Brilliant, shinny  golden hair and matcning robe. His hair coiffed in a bejewled pomadour. His body?  well I think yiddish as a good word for it, softig. (Remember these were not great athletes). Georgeous George no hero himself nevertheless  had an arch enemy.  His name (or close to it) was Baron Sierra Leone. Always dressed in the finest that his barony could afford.  Both being Villians were alway lustily booed. GG usually got the best of The Baron due to the efficacy of his famous and apparently dreadfully painful Step Over Toe Hold. 
> 	The announcer although I can’t remember his name was almost as famous as the wrestlers themselves.  His cry when sometihing extrordinary happaned on the mat would cry “Whoa Nelly”  I am pretty sure that this was telecast by KTLA -TV in Los Angeles  whose programming has proabably remained at that level of sophistication. 
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> I think this happened shortly after the Gold Rush.  And  some say that in Calirornia it is still and for ever more” Shortly after the Gold Rush”
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>> On Feb 10, 2024, at 7:06 AM, Dan Bloom <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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>> Phil:
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>> I suggested the Trump phenomena is an offshoot of Wrestlemania.  You said it is closer to The Apprentice.
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>> Take a look at these videos.  And notice the cheering crowd.  
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>> To me, Trump is closer here to how he behaves than the Trump of The Apprentice. 
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>> Dan
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>> https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BwaJ69P410U
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>> https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oYb46Nxar-Q
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVxVDDYwNvU
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