Whatever Happened To Kalman Gaston?

An interesting diversion taken by this thread. When the Wrestling Heritage website started we coined the phrase "It's all about the memories."

In those days, nearly twenty years ago, there were lots of people around able and willing to share their memories of McManus, Pallo, Nagasaki et al on Heritage and the other forums of the time - One Stop, British Wrestling Archive and British Wrestlers Reunion. Time moves on. These days only Heritage remains and many of those fans are sadly no longer with us or have exhausted every memory of the good old days.

Whilst memories are the lifeblood of the forum, they give it vitality and bring a sense of fun, the memories alone would be an empty vessel. For any value those memories require a context and that means seeking out and sharing a record of the events of the time. Without any official records that's a difficult task, but thanks to our incredible contributors we are slowly getting there and recording wrestling's history. We are as guilty as any other site of sometimes citing something that seems factually accurate at the time only to be replaced with a contrary "fact" later. That's not to be dismissed; it's how we all move forward together, and provides a far more valuable and accurate record of events than memories alone. That there is a great deal of misinformation out there should not cause us to shy away from the task of preserving history but encourage us to redress that balance.

What is important is that we continue to question statements wherever they appear, including Heritage, remain aware and challenge our own prejudices, keep an open mind, attempt to understand the "big picture" and not get sidelined by individual events, remain curious and most important of all, continue to have fun.