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This
is the Starrcade 84 t-shirt. Back at this time,
t-shirts were very seldom sold, in fact this might
be the first one Crockett did. They didn’t have
merchandising; they didn’t have gimmick stores
or anything like that. Now, we take it for granted.
Earl
Hebner gave me this. Earl was still refereeing for
Crockett;
David
Hebner had already gone to the WWF. He was
actually the merchandise guy for Crockett later
on. He
drove the truck, plus he was a referee. So he had
all this old stuff at home, and when we would go
work
Richmond
, we would stay over at Earl’s. He had boxes of
old stuff still at his house. I only wish I had
grabbed more!
What’s
special about this, I don’t think I’ve ever
seen another shirt with “Mid-Atlantic
Championship Wrestling” on it. This was the only
shirt they did that had that. The later stuff all
said NWA. They sold this for $3.00 at the actual
Starrcade event in
Greensboro
.
-George
South
The
above was transcribed from discussions Dick Bourne
and David Chappell had with George as he took us
on a tour around his wrestling room at his home in
Concord, NC., August 20, 2003. |
