The main wrestling town in Fife looks to be Kirkcaldy with quite a long history , but during 1964 it may be that The Adam Smith Hall could not be rented for some of the year. I had previously posted about Cupar doing wrestling in 1967 and 1968 , but in the case of Cupar it was the Independants.
I am back in 1964 now for some form of Joint Promotions. I am not going to jump to any conclusions which promoter was running these shows. Today I read that Lochgelly has the cheapest houses in Britain , a much run down place . The Cinema De Luxe was very old , built in the days of silent movies. Deep and narrow building that could seat 720 people. Ironically , I believe that is more than the Adam Smith Hall at Kirkcaldy.
The quality of bills is quite good , plenty of Lancashire and Yorkshire wrestlers getting up there and even Pallo and Garfield. As autumn drew in wrestling was on again in Kirkcaldy , but the season ran on in Lochgelly.
For joint promotions that was to be it from what I could see.
Someone else , however had perhaps had their beady eye on it. Cape Promotions later tried Cupar , before that they did these shows in Lochgelly. If nothing else , I love a masked man and like Hack , a bit of a fan of Angus Campbell.
Ghouls , Monsters , Beasts and Doctor Blood.....Love it.
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Just re-reading this topic again. Ron's comment that the Lochgelly Joint Promotion bills were "quite good" seems an understatement. I think most of the country would be more than happy with these bills.
Makes me think, again, that the Joint Promotion members saw it as good business sense to put on shows with well known names in smaller towns subsidised by the more profitable bigger towns.
Some very good Joint Promotion bills there at Lochgelly. I was surprised to see Vince Apollo working up there for Joint in 1964. Not a lot of reliance on home grown talent though, heavily reliant on northern Englanders. But of course it's the independent bills that are more fascinating. Typical Cape bills, but Chief Stoneyface is a new one on me. You do wonder if some of these characters did exist at all. The May 1965 bill for Cape we had the same bill in Preston.
Amazed the tickets for Acker Bilk were no higher than Professional Wrestling. He was at the height of his career and had recently become only the second UK artist to have a USA number one
I have a couple of programmes from this venue: Hans Streiger's attire was noted.
Maybe Majid Ackra lived in Scotland.
Chief Stoneyface made me smile.
The AdamSmith Halls was a series of rooms opened in 1899, the cinema/theatre hall was created in 1973 it now holds 475 people so it could be that the hall for the wrestling held a could well have held more. I wonder if the Kirkaldy Odeon which burned down in 1974 was used as a wrestling venue at all, it held over 1200 and could have been a more profitable venue if available.
I like the look of the 13th of May and the Sept’ 2nd cards.