Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Pepper Gomez
Pepper Gomez, former professional wrestler and a friend of mine's father, passed away last Thursday at the age of 77.
"Gomez began wrestling professionally in 1953 in Portland and Seattle before arriving nine years later in the Bay Area, where he raised his arms in triumph in venues such as the Cow Palace and the former Oakland Coliseum." Contra Costa Times
I was in a bar last night and the subject of Pepper came up. No fewer than four people unrelated to the conversation jumped in with their own Pepper stories, some they saw for themselves, some they heard from others, all of them told with a smile.
Labels: Portland, Wrestling
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