The Barenaked Dream

Truth and naked dreams
from Gary Books, Bluffton News Banner, Bluffton, Indiana.

Mr. Books writes very well on the subject of dreams and the history of TV wrestlers. (Who among ye remember Gorgeous George?) I'm sure he must have written well on other topics too. I just haven't read them yet.

Almost since shaggy-haired men scratched animal pictures on their cave walls, great writers and thinkers have encouraged everyone to “follow their dreams.”

There were female wrestlers, too. During the war years, one’s ring character was Elvira Snodgrass, who was promoted as the “wrestling hillbilly.” Her goal in life, she said, was to wrestle all comers to make enough money so she could retire to her “hawg” farm in Tennessee.

And yes, that is indeed the Flatiron building (285 ft. tall) at 23rd Street, Broadway, & 5th Avenue, New York, New York.