Rose Roman & Lorraine Johnson vs. Shirley Strimple & Ramona TeSelle (10/28/1955)
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- Rose Roman (Rose Roman Hesseltine) and Lorraine Johnson face Shirley Strimple (Shirley McClarty) and Ramona TeSelle in a tag team match, best 2 of 3 falls with a 60 minute time limit. Friday, October 28th, 1955 at the Chicago International Amphitheatre.
Original: 16mm., B&W, Optical Sound. F.2008-04-0107 + F.2008-04-0108.
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Lorraine Johnson was the mother of Baby Doll. Valet of some renown in the 1980s. Dusty Rhodes, Tully Blanchard and Gino Hernandez were some of her clients.
I loved this match ---- Lorraine Johnson is my favorite --- hope you will post
more of her matches
It appears as if Toni Storm is trying to replicate the in-ring appearance that Lorraine Johnson had in the 1950s.
Critics of ladies' pro wrestling should particularly note the well-dressed women in the second row of the audience who are clearly thoroughly enjoying four superlatively fit and amazingly tough fellow-females using their outstanding strength to cause each other tremendous pain.
what a great find.
Very entertaining match. It's amazing that this entire match has survived. I noticed that around 13:50 Lorraine coughed from the choke hold and Shirley gave her a few seconds to recover. The women wrestlers from this era were great. The crowd is made up of adult men and women mostly all dressed up. Most of the men are wearing jackets and ties, and some of the women are even wearing hats. How different from today. Thanks.
Hey is everything good with you
This match took place on October 28, 1955, at the Chicago Amphitheater. Social norms and fashion styles were very different then from what they are today in the 21st Century. T-shirts and jeans were only worn by men on very hot days. If the man did not work in a factory, farm, or mine, they usually wore slacks, a button-up shirt with a butterfly collar, and a casual wool or cotton jacket, depending upon the season of the year.
Women that did not have jobs that determined their dress codes, usually wore a cotton house dress in order to be presentable, should visitors or friends stop by to visit.
If men and women were going to have a weekend night on the town, with dinner followed by a movie or a sporting event, such as a pro wrestling show like this one. They would put on a suit and tie, or a woman would put on her best cotton or wool dress or woman’s suit, stockings, and presentable pumps or high-heeled shoes. Men would also were dress shoes on such nights, as sneakers were for almost exclusively athletic wear only at that time, although boys and girls started to wear them more often in the late-1950s.
Wow, what an awesome classic age ladies tag team bout!!
I would have lost my job at the carnival guessing the weight of women. I had Lorraine Johnson at 125 lbs tops. She must be 5'10ish! I want to clone her! LOL
Well, I'll tell you this much, it seems that announcing a woman wrestlers weight has changed a lot over time. Now they don't even bother at all, or the girl's weight is always understated, sometimes to a ridiculous degree. I blame it on our modern attitude that insists all women must be a dress size 2 and no more than 110 lbs. to be considered attractive anymore!!
crushercathy69 Yeah I think you are absolutely right. Way too many of today's women wrestlers turn invisible if they turn sideways. Very disappointing too as I have ALWAYS preferred my opponents be buxom and at least 140 lbs. I do not think I can legitimately submit to a toothpick.
Well I come in at 5' 5" and every bit of 160 lbs. myself.....LOL!!!
crushercathy69 And in this corner at 5'8" and 150lbs in the silk maroon trunks...the mighty VintageSessionGuy!!! Yayyyyy ( everybody cheers!) Bring it little girl! :)
MORE LORRAINE JOHNSON!!!!! PLEASE!!!!
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Shirley Strimple was The Wrestling Housewife!
Just had lunch with her daughter in Cave Creek AZ. Got her mom's hair!
Yes im a big fan of the womens wrestling from the 50s to the 60s thay were the best women's wrestling today its a joke. Im alwayz looking for more when i find one i haven't seen i do get excited. I can't help it watching it in black and white i just love it. Hope you enjoy what i have. Thanks.
Thank you so so much for this! Thats my Husbands Mom Shirley Strimple she was the Marlyn Monroe of wrestling his Father was Roy McClarty they divorced he went back to Canada and started a family up there again thank you so much if you have more please post them!!!! Theses were the first glow girls.Later on in her career her hair was blond and she had a cape.
Hi Cindy Sue! You are the wife of the son of the 5 foot 4 130 pound "The Wrestling Housewife" Shirley Strimple and Roy McClarity!! So cool!
I'm not really a pro wrestling fan but these 1950s ladies' matches were awesome!
Your husband never got you into wrestling? 😅
I just checked and I see that Roy had 4 children with Shirley. May I ask if your husband is Tony, Steven or Jeffrey?
By the way, from 1:50 the announcer says "Well, we're off and running, this is a gals match. If you've never seen one of these you haven't lived."
Totally agree! 😁
@@georgehenderson7783 Yes my Husband is Jeff.Thank you for the response that made Jeff and I laugh at the end of your post I wish someone like Clint Eastwood would do a movie about theses Ladies and do it in black and white like the movie Raging Bull to show the personal story's that theses lady's went through it was not all glamor and many I'm sure would have interesting back stories but thank you again for your post that put a smile on his face.
@@cindysue5474 I'm happy to know I put a smile on your faces. 😁
There is a movie about the women wrestlers of yesteryear - Lipstick and Dynamite! Seems your mother-in-law isn't featured in it but it should still be interesting for you and Jeff.
I haven't seen it myself, just the trailer on YT.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0412919/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
ua-cam.com/video/U1biEpinrhY/v-deo.html
@@georgehenderson7783 Yes we have watched it his Mom is not in it but the girls they show were her best friends except for mohla she could not stand her.
@@georgehenderson7783 Its on Amazon prime.
Loved it!! The locks I wanted to see! Old school is the truth!
6:03 It's nice to know referees were good at blocking the camera in the 1950s too...
Please get this remastered
Now that is women's wrestling
Boy they could wrestle!! They wrestled better than most of the guys today!!
where can you find more old school wrestling with the women
www.faceclips.net/rev/lorraine%2Bjohnson%2Bwrestling
WWE, take note: This is how wrestling (especially womens' wrestling) is done. If you don't learn from this, WWE HQ will resemble Stonehenge in England: people will be wandering around it saying "I wonder what they used to do here?"
wow does rose ever get amazing height on those keister bumps. The power in her thighs were unmatched. look at 26:50 hoisting shirley up and slamming her like a pancake!
Notice the tag ropes on the buckles...NWA for sure. No tag unless it is the your hand.
Very cool, but it's a shame the fights were fake.
LORRAINE WAS A VERY SEXY LADY WRESTLER FOR HER TIME!
Mae young vs Ella waldek
Women in the 50's were so much hotter.
Opening a locked car
TFT
great gal wrestlers todays gal need to disappear
+william fullenwider if the so called Divas were in the ring with either with these gals, it will be a squash match. The so called divas won't be a match for Sherri Martel or Vivan Vachon. Back then, women weight were called out in the introductions by the ring announcers.
Opening a locked car
This is perfect selling for women's wrestling.