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Smoke Filled Rooms

Great Memories of Days Gone By


Richmond Reflections

by David Chappell

• Blood, Sweat, and Payin' The Price in Colonial Heights - 35 Years Ago  

• Strawberry Hill

• Goodbye to "Mr. Mid-Atlantic" Johnny Weaver

• Reunited, And It Feels So Good

• Happy New Year from an Empty Richmond Coliseum 

• Wahoo McDaniel: One of The Family Passes Away

• Remembering Big Swede Hanson

• Johnny Valentine - The Champ

• Super Destroyer: A Cut Above the Rest

• A Hot August Night  

• Prom Night, April 30, 1976

• Learning Your Way Around the Richmond Circuit

 

Also see:

• Richmond's Top 15


 

Watered Down Cokes and Stale Popcorn

Little Stories of Respect I want to hang On To. Will be updated periodically.

by Dick Bourne

 

 


Featured Articles by Gateway Contributors

• Real Heat by Bruce Mitchell

• A Night at the WRAL Mid-Atlantic Wrestling Television Tapings by Bruce Mitchell

• Big Bill's Playhouse: Remembering Bill Ward and WBTV by Mike Cline

• Charlie Harville: His Remarkable Journey by Wayne Brower

• Wrestling 101: Discovering Wrestling on Television in the 1960s by Wayne Brower

• Johnny Weaver's Title Chase by Mike Cline

• Friday Night at 8:15 by Andy McDaniel

• All Out of Bubble Gum by Eddie Fulton

• Meeting Abe Jacobs by Don Holbrook

• Flair & Valentine: On The Air by Don Holbrook

• My Secret Charlotte by Kyra Quinn

• WGHP Memories by Michael Roach


Gateway Guide to Great Food on Your Great Wrestling Road Trip

• Price's Chicken Coop, Charlotte NC

• South 21 Drive-In, Charlotte NC

• The Beacon, Spartanburg SC 


Ric Flair WWE Retirement Updates 2007-2008

by Jim De Medeiros

 

• Flair Proves He's Still Wrestling's MVP

• Happy Woo Year!

• Ric Flair's Last Run Derailed?

• Flair Promises to "Go Out in a Blaze of Glory"

• Ric Flair: The Final Countdown

• Staying The Man

On The Backstreets

by Dick Bourne 

• Images Reclaimed 

Three U.S. Champs That Never Had their Photos Made With the Red Strap U.S. Belt - Until Now

• Jimmy Snuka Remembers the U.S. Belt

• Jesus, Elvis, and All-Star Wrestling: One Amazing Week at the Charlotte Coliseum

• Five Reasons I'm Most Looking Forward to Charlotte 2010

• Arena Lost: The Life and Times of the Richmond Arena (featured in Classic Venues)

• Rocking the Cradle: the Mystery of the Wrestlers in the Mid-Atlantic Open

• A Letter From a Childhood Hero

• Losing Jack Brisco

• The Beacon Drive-In: Great Memories A-Plenty Part of the Gateway Guide to Great Food on Your Great Wrestling Road Trip!

• Check Your Local Listings

• I Still Owe Harley Race a Beer

• Fate (Or Something Like It)

• The Pride of the Peacock

• South 21 Drive-In: A Charlotte Wrestling Tradition

Part of the Gateway Guide to Great Food on Your Great Wrestling Road Trip!

• The Greatest Finish Man Ever (Blackjack Mulligan Reminisces On Johnny Weaver) 

• Saying Goodbye to Johnny Weaver

• Ole & Solie: The Evolution of TV Wrestling in Georgia After Black Saturday

• Thanksgiving Tradition

• The Return of Pvt. Jim Nelson

• A Legend Comes Home: Johnny Weaver Returns to Mid-Atlantic Wrestling in 1975

• In The Woods of North Georgia: A Visit with Ole Anderson in 2007

• Worlds Collide: The Anderson Brothers vs. The Mongols in 1976

• The Unexpected Gift

• A Simpler Time

• The Lost Title Reign of Tiger Conway, Jr. and Steve Keirn

• The Little Ol' Lady Ringside

• Historical Controversy: Should Paul Jones' victory over Johnny Valentine for the Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship be recognized?

• The Chicken Coop

Part of the Gateway Guide to Great Food on Your Great Wrestling Road Trip!

• The Original Minnesota Wrecking Crew

• I Believed in Gene Anderson

• Backed by the Jack: A Visit with Blackjack Mulligan

• Black Saturday

• The Birth of Mid-Atlantic Wrestling on Television

• The Origin of the Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship

• Perfect Storm: The Legend of The Hat and Robe

• Starrcade's Magic Moments

• Giving Thanks in Spartanburg

• Full Circle