Television from a different time

For many years, I was a big wrestling fan

Famous wrestlers like Rowdy Roddy Piper, Razor Ramon, Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant, The Rock (Dwayne Johnson), Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Undertaker (Mark Calaway), were some of my favorites, as well as wrestling managers "Bobby the Brain Heenan, Miss Elizabth, and Paul Bearer.

I'd like to take you back in time when there was a very popular TV show with Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford.

Here are two separate shows in which they presented manager Paul Bearer with wrestler The Undertaker and then manager Miss Elizabeth and wrestler Randy "Macho Man" Savage

First, we have Paul Bearer and the Undertaker
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA4pelde-VQ


Next, we have Miss Elizabeth and Randy "Macho Man" Savage
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSKjav5qfds&t=338s
 
I wasn't a big wrestling fan, but I remember when Hulk Hogan demonstrated a choke hold on Richard Belzer and knocked him out...
 
The first music video I ever saw was Hulk Hogan in Venice, CA. Watched while on the clock in PFD Engine 5's kitchen.
 
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The first music video I ever saw was Hulk Hogan in Venice, CA. Watched while on the clock in PFD Engine 5's kitchen.
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While I was working at the firehouse (Norwich, CT) on Saturdays about 11 am we would have our lunch and most of us would watch wrestling too.
 
It's Halloween and this is a character that made his appearance many years ago.

That character "Frankenstein"





And how about we join the Honeymooners on Halloween night in 1952


 
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"I'll paint any car any color for just $29.95" was his byline. My father had his 1950 DeSoto painted at Earl Scheib around 1955 or so. Painted it gray. It came back with almost all of the chrome, door handles, trunk lock, and Fernand DeSoto's head on the hood ornament gray. My father spent hours scraping gray paint off the windows, too. I don't think they had ever heard of masking tape. And prep work? Their motto was "We don' need no stinking prep work". This was at the Earl Scheib in Jamaica.

And, would you believe it, there is STILL an Earl Scheib location in Newport News, VA (doesn't look like they're very busy, does it):
 

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Got an Earl Schieb job on a '55 Chevy in early '68 ..... it was at their location almost at the East end of Bushwick Ave around Furman Ave price was $19.95.
 
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raybrag said:
"I'll paint any car any color for just $29.95" was his byline. My father had his 1950 DeSoto painted at Earl Scheib around 1955 or so. Painted it gray. It came back with almost all of the chrome, door handles, trunk lock, and Fernand DeSoto's head on the hood ornament gray. My father spent hours scraping gray paint off the windows, too. I don't think they had ever heard of masking tape. And prep work? Their motto was "We don' need no stinking prep work". This was at the Earl Scheib in Jamaica.

And, would you believe it, there is STILL an Earl Scheib location in Newport News, VA (doesn't look like they're very busy, does it):
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Bingo! The entire vehicle was painted. As you said, mirrors, handles, portions of the windows, etc. Had a '65 Chevy painted in Jamaica as well and I mean painted.
 
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