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This is a photo I took of Ricky Hunter (The Masked Gladiator) in the backstage of the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium. These color photos have been missing for many, many years. I was really happy to find them last week.

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This was taken after Billy Graham and Pat Patterson (in mask) won their match on Big Time Wrestling. They were resting during the commercial break before they did their interview with Hank Renner. You can still see people yelling insults at them in the back. If you can see Pat's eyeballs through the mask, he is staring right at the camera. I always wonder what the boys were thinking when they were watching me taking their picture. Pat doesn't look happy here, but he wasn't supposed to, either.

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This is Rocky "Soulman" Johnson before his match at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium. I was so happy when I found these color photos! I had not seen these for a long time, but I knew they were hiding somewhere. I didn't take many color photos because I only printed black and white pictures in the program and we had a B&W Darkroom to work on the pictures. All of the pictures on this site are made and enhanced on an Apple Macintosh iBook and Adobe Photoshop CS which makes the job of preparing photos for this site a photographer's dream!

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This is Pepper Martin interviewing Promoter Roy Shire while Pepper got his shot at doing the color commentary with Hank Renner on Big Time Wrestling. I didn't think it worked when he had to interview a heel because they had to argue with each other instead of talk -- it made a little more sense when he interview a babyface because he was one of them and it sometimes came across that he was getting some good stuff out of his buddies. It didn't last too long -- maybe a year or so and then it went back to Hank doing the commentary and interviews by himself.

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Here is another Miss Wrestling! Does anyone remember what her name is? I think she is Miss W #4 if my count is correct. The Interns, Peter Maivia, Pat Patterson and Jim Gagne were wrestling that night on Big Time Wrestling. If you know who she is, please let me know!

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That is Superstar Billy Graham leaping off of the top rope of the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium ring and aiming for Peter Maivia who seems to be having a hard time standing up. Referee Frank Nocetti is politely asking the Superstar not to hit Maivia.

The Superstar, Billy Graham, has a wrist lock on Peter Maivia, during that same match at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium. This looks like Billy was having a good match that night, but I don't know who finally won. I'm sure it was a good one with these two wrestling.

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Here Billy Graham is knocking Gerry Monti to the mat with an elbow to Monti's neck. This match is also in Sacramento.

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This is Beauregard autographing copies of my program for the kids at a match in the Stockton Auditorium. Beauregard wrestled most of the time in the Pacific Northwest, out of Portland. He was a singer and had an album made that he sold at the matches. I have a picture of the cover I will look for. I think they sold for $5.00 an heautographed them to the buyers. I will have to check my mom's house to see if I still have one he gave me in trade for an ad in myprogram one month. He was a pretty nice guy and was very popular with the women in the audience. I don't remember what he weighed, but he was fairly small.

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