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This
is a collection of some of the chairs
that I have.
This
one on the left is from the Mid-South
Coliseum in
Memphis
,
TN.
A lot of the guys autographed it for
me, Jerry Lawler, Bill Dundee, Boogie
Man
Jim
my Valiant,
Buddy Landel
, the Rock & Roll Express. Just to
have all those guys sign it is
special, I got lucky.
The
one in the center is my favorite, or
at least one of my favorites, it’s
from the Greensboro Coliseum. We were
there doing a big youth rally at the
Coliseum, and this was actually, sad
is this is to say, sitting outside in
a smoking area for the janitors. They
had just redone the whole coliseum
with new seats, and had destroyed most
of the old seats and chairs, and this
guy was sitting out back smoking a
cigarette on this thing. I talked my
head off, and got the coliseum manager
down there, and finally talked him
into giving this to me. It’s one of
the original chairs from the original
coliseum (before it was expanded and
refurbished.)
This
one on the right I just recently got
from the Spartanburg Memorial
Auditorium, I have the tag you made me
with the Spartanburg
logo. This was neat because it was one
of the original ringside seats, and I
had to talk their assistant manager
out of a couple of chairs.
I
don’t let my kids sit in these! But
it’s neat to have these from those
famous buildings, and all that’s
missing would be one from the old
Charlotte Coliseum and the Park Center
.
-George
South
The
above was transcribed from discussions
Dick Bourne had with George as the
tour continued around his wrestling
room at his home in Concord, NC,
December 16, 2003.
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