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Cauliflower Alley Club
2003 Las Vegas Reunion - Page 5
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Jack Brisco and Me, at the Wrestling Memorabilia Fair. I saw him wrestle many times when I lived in Florida. He has a new book coming out very soon, and donated the cover art from the book to the Silent Auction.
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George "The Animal" Steele was there and I did not see him eat a single turnbuckle pad. I'm sure if he had, I would have heard about it. I was really happy to meet him after so many years of reading about him and seeing him on TV. I probably sound like a broken record saying he was a very nice guy, but he was!
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This was a really interesting exhibit that was on display on one of the Silent Auction tables. It was a bronze cast of Andre the Giant's hand and forearm, and it was huge! I am 6'1" and my arm looked like a child's arm in there. I'm really sorry I didn't take a picture of this with someone's arm in it to show just how large it is. If you look above the hand, those are full-sized 8.5"x11" papers which will give you a good idea of the size. Those binders contained collections in the Silent Auction. The top left was a collection of 20 Detroit programs, The Body Press, which I would have liked to have won. The collection on the right was a stack of "old" wrestling magazines.
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This was one of the items in the Silent Auction which I thought was really cool. There are actually three items, all from the Sgt. Slaughter Celebrity Golf Tournament. There is the Golf Bag, an autographed banner and a specially made First Place Championship Belt that was specially made for the tournament. It didn't say who donated it, and the last time I looked, the high bid was $300. If I was working, I would have bought it, and I don't play golf! I don't know how I would have stuffed it in my suitcase though.
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This is another golf bag from the Silent Auction. This one was autographed by a bunch of wrestling stars. Here are the names in order: Nick Bockwinkle, Red Bastien, Butcher Vachone, Jimmy Valiant, Killer Tim Brooks, Jack Brisco, Gordon Nelson, Stan Nielson (?), Sir Oliver Humperdink, Killer Kowalski, and "Mad Dog" Vachon.
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This little ashtray was also a silent auction item. It says Grunt & Groan on the front edge of the bowl. Someone guessed it was from the Houston office of Promoter Paul Boesch, but I have no idea if that is true. The last I checked the high bid for this was $50 or $55.
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Every year at the reunion, CAC sells raffle tckets at the Saturday Banquet for a Championship Belt, specially made each year for the Cauliflower Alley Club Reunion. It is worth over $2100 and is donated by JMAR Championship Belts in Ohio. The belt was beautiful! The winner was Bob Verhey shown her with wrestler Peggy Patterson. I don't know Bob, but everyone else there did. When he stood up after his number was called, everyone was saying, "Bobby won, Bobby won!"
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More photos on Page 6!
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Illustrated History of Professional Wrestling in Northern California
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