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Post by Flair81 on Jan 2, 2005 20:42:29 GMT -5
How many weekly towns did MACW run in it's heyday? Greenville, Richmond, Lynchburg, Columbia, at one time Charlotte ran weekly, Ashville was every 3 weeks. There is a group now www.americanprowrestling.com and they run every Saturday in Spartanburg. This is so rare today. WWE can't fill their house shows and this group runs weekly. Well they must have a solid fan base. I've followed them in the net the past few weeks and they have plenty of matches. I live too far away to attend shows but love that old school appeal. |
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Post by bobbyryates on Jan 2, 2005 20:53:27 GMT -5
raleigh and fayetteville were pretty much weekly for awhile.
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Post by davemoore on Jan 8, 2005 7:53:52 GMT -5
MACW was at the spartanburg Memorial Auditorium every saturday night. I dont know when they started, but I went to my first JCP card there in 1965 and rarely missed a show right up to the very end. From the mid 80s on, Sptbg was one of the cities where the tv tapings were held.
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Post by Flair81 on Jan 9, 2005 11:21:00 GMT -5
Spartanburg and Greenville are the bread and butter
of house shows. Never been bit I've followed wrestling
for 25 years and this area had a strong core base
of fan support. Still does.
I went to a show last night in Bluefield WV and saw
Kevin Nash, Disco Inferno, Road Warrior Animal, Rick
Steiner, Shane Douglas. Raven and Barbarian where
no shows. They set the stage for the next show there
Feb 5 by using different angles last night.
Back in the old days with weekly shows they must
have planned very carefully to get people to come every week. I miss the old posters that gave the lineup
and told you where you could by advanced tickets.
Things have changed but these Indy shows bring
back a lot of memories.
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Post by superworker on Nov 28, 2005 14:55:15 GMT -5
Spartanburg on Saturday night and Greenville on Monday night with Billy Powell doing the announcing in Greenville. Man, those WERE the Good Ole Days!!!!!!!
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Post by bluedevil71 on Nov 28, 2005 18:15:46 GMT -5
Richmond was Friday nights, but I don't recall it being weekly. Maybe every other week and then later on it was like every 3 weeks, once a month before going national.
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Post by kiwilegroll on Nov 29, 2005 15:07:29 GMT -5
Mondays in Greenville. The smoke hung THICK in the old Brown Box!
Get there early and watch the stars enter- always dressed so professionally! Those were great times.
They also used to make appearences at the Anderson Rec. Center! Now that could be brutal- NO A.C.!
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Post by ozzsmith on Nov 29, 2005 16:32:50 GMT -5
COLUMBIA AT THE TOWNSHIP..BEEEEEEE THERE!!!
EVERY TUESDAY, I WAS.
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Post by dogthuhoops2k on Nov 30, 2005 15:25:10 GMT -5
I think in the days of the Richmond Arena and cards at the State Fairgrounds, Richmond was weekly. The Gateway guys probably have more info on this.
Once they got to the Coliseum it became every two weeks.
Dogs
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Post by bluedevil71 on Nov 30, 2005 17:15:13 GMT -5
That's probably true, Dogs. Back in the 60s and early 70s, they did run the Arena and State Fairgrounds on a weekly basis. I was more thinking of early 80s. Seems like they ran the Coliseum every other 2 weeks.
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Post by RowdyRoddy on Nov 30, 2005 18:06:08 GMT -5
How often, and when, did they run shows at the Roanoke Civic Center in the 1970s and 1980s? What about the Spindale House???
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Post by superstarsimms74 on Dec 1, 2005 0:43:00 GMT -5
I know when i went to the shows at the Roanoke Civic Center from 1986 to 1989 and the early nineties it seemed that the NWA was in town at least every month or every other month.
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Post by RowdyRoddy on Dec 1, 2005 9:00:47 GMT -5
Someone told me that MACW/JCP came to the Roanoke Civic Center once every other week or once a month back in the 1980s
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Post by thegreatbologuy on Dec 1, 2005 9:22:23 GMT -5
Lexington, N.C. was a mainstay every Saturday for JCP for many years.
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