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Pastimes : Boxing: The Sweet Science -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SmoothSail who wrote (10379)	6/1/2007 11:35:31 PM
From: freelyhovering	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10489

Thanks for sharing your memories. I visited the home when it was Synanon as I was planning to set up a similar program in a Federal Prison near Dallas. I also used to live just down the road in Venice from age 5 til 18 when off to college. I once saw Primo Carnera on the Venice to Ocean Park Board Walk. There was a giant! My favorite fighter as a teenage in L.A. was Art Aragon. He never quite made it as a champ but he was the Mexican equivalent of Sugar Ray Robinson in dash and style. Anybody remember the old Hollywood Legion Stadium and the Olympic Auditorium (still around, I think). Also Dr. Bernie Schwartz, the famous Olympic ring-side doc, was my second cousin. Quite a character. Did brief prison-time for shooting his first wife since he was a Bad shot--good doc. P.S.--also Sunday Wrestling workouts at the Ocean Park arena were a hoot.--Swedish and Polish Angels, Zebra Kid, Argentine Rocca with the famous drop kick and Mr. Moto with the 'sleeper hold', excited my 11 year old imagination