Gorgeous George

Now that we were living in Wichita, a whole new world opened up to us that we couldn't have experienced before. There were play parks, picnic grounds, amusement parks, wrestling matches, ice capades and a circus, plus more that I can even think of right now. This little story will be about Gorgeous George.

Mom had been wanting to go to a wrestling match, so dad started taking her to the matches every now and then. Well, they heard that Gorgeous George was coming to town, of course they had to go to that one. Mom told us girls all about it when she got home (well actually the next day.) She said he had long platinum blonde hair, with gold hair pins in it. She said he strolled out to the ring to "pomp and c
ircumstance" . He was escorted by his valet (not a trainer) and he had a purple spotlight on him. she said he had on a robe with sparkly sequins on it. As he came down the aisle he tossed his gold hairpins to the people in the crowd. She said it of course was all show, that even when the wrestling match started that he cheated at every chance and absolutely infuriated the audience.

There were other matches that evening also. During one of the matches--the REAL wrestling match---mom was sitting close enough to the ring to hear one of the wrestlers say "ease up a bit, that last one really did hurt". Mom then knew for sure that the whole thing was phoney and never wanted to go again.