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Title: Blond Freddie Blassie in a favorite hold
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Courtney, Tom
Date Created and/or Issued: 1961
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Used in the Exhibit: Play by Play - A Century of L.A. Sports Photography, 1889-1989
Freddie Blassie, L.A.'s most enduring heel, up to his usual tricks: pulling his opponent's hair while choking him. Here, "Classy" Blassie defeats Lou Thesz during their World Wrestling Alliance title fight at the Sports Arena. Blassie dubbed his detractors "pencil neck geeks" (and recorded a song by that name), and co-starred in what became a cult film, "My Breakfast with Blassie," with comedian Andy Kaufman. He died in 2003. Photo dated: July 22, 1961.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00048908
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 5268.
CARL0000052925
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17352
Subject: Blassie, Fred
Thesz, Lou,--1916-
Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Wrestlers
Wrestling
Wrestling holds
Wrestling matches
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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