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ANNUAL THANKSGIVING NIGHT
SPECTACULAR
November 27, 1975 •
Greensboro Coliseum • Greensboro, NC
Page for the Thanksgiving
Show from George
Scott's Datebook/Planner
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The line-up and other notes for the
Thanksgiving show can be seen in this full spread image from George
Scott's datebook. You also see the line-up for the other big annual
show in Norfolk that took place each Thanksgiving night. Andre the
Giant and Superstar Billy Graham, as well as appearing in the
six-man main event, also met in a special arm wrestling contest. We
have some rare photos of that contest courtesy of photographer Bill
Janosik, in
his
photo album on the Mid-Atlantic Gateway.
Some bonus material here, just for
fun. You see the line-up for the TV taping that took place the night
before at the studios of WRAL in Raleigh, as well as a spot show the
same night in Smithfield NC. One of the interesting things we
learned from the 1975 datebook was the existence of spot shows on TV
taping nights. I had always assumed that they didn't run a show on
Wednesday night when they taped two hours of TV, but they almost
always (at least during that year) ran a small spot show in a town
near Raleigh. In this case, Smithfield NC is about 25 miles from
Raleigh. You can see here that several of the guys did TV shots, and
then hustled over to Smithfield for that show.
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