The Year Roller Derby Returned to TV
Roller derby was one of the first sports to appear regularly on network TV starting with a 13 week run on CBS in 1948. Roller derby was a staple of network TV until 1951 when attempts to remove the...
View ArticleEl Santo vs the Zombies
Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta, under his silver-masked alias El Santo (The Saint), was and still is the most famous name in the world of Mexican wrestling known as Lucha Libre. Santo was more than a wrestler;...
View ArticlePinball Art: 1961
The backglass art below is from pinball machines that began arriving in arcades, drugstores and bowling alleys in 1961. The three big pinball machine manufacturers at the time were Gottlieb, Williams,...
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