When I worked at Kienow's in Lake Oswego, Haru Sasaki used to come in all the time. He generally only bought two things.....a half-rack of Oly and a carton of Lucky Strikes. Ew?
Man, I used to love watching that. Whenever I'd stay with my grandparents, it was a given that I'd watch that with my grandfather. Good stuff.
As an old fart, I remember going when Jimmy Snuka, Jesse Ventura etc roamed the Portland Sports Arena. Acts like Andre the Giant would come to town. It was pretty huge in Portland. In fact, in the second grade I had my first date and took her to Portland Wrestling. In high school she told me she was going through some old boxes and drawers and found autographed pics of some of the guys. Good story becomes better because as seniors, we hooked up and I scored
