Betimes Ive rhapsodized to a rather prolix degree about the awesomeness that was Frank Bonnema-era Portland Wrestling. Some nice soul has put several long clips … including a few complete 90-min epis - on the Tube of You. This is the best one Ive seen. Nearly two-minutes of Tom Peterson (Where can you buy a 19-inch color TV for less than $270? At Tom Petersons, thats where! We bought them right, so were going to sell them right! 82nd and Foster Road!) and Ron Tonkin Ford lead-in commercials will put you into that 1982 frame-of-mind before the program starts. There was a thing called carrying charges back then. And rebates on cars. Less than four months from the date of this broadcast, The Great One, Frank Bonnema, would be dead at age 49 of a heart attack. Don Coss and the crew soldiered on for another decade only; Old Moe Mentum had started to swing the other way, and old-school Portland Wrestling would be cancelled in 1992, ending a nearly 40-year local television tradition. Since Joe Vithayathil got me thinking on the old times, and watching that old series … I hear Portland Wrestling Uncut may be coming back later this year. Bring that bad boy on. Well be there.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 01:20:57 +0000
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