Chief Little Wolf wrestling Gino Garibaldi, Los Angeles, 1935
Item Overview
- Title
- Chief Little Wolf wrestling Gino Garibaldi, Los Angeles, 1935
- Date Created
- December 1935
- Date
- 1935-12
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Collection
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OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Five images of Chief Little Wolf wrestling Gino Garibald, with an referee beside them.
Wrestler Gino Garibaldi (born Sam Curcuru) was the brother of Chick Garibaldi, the father of Leo Garibaldi, the brother of Ralph Garibaldi and the brother of Tony Garibaldi.
Ventura Tenario (‘Chief Little Wolf’) (1911-1984), was a professional wrestler and showman. Attracted to wrestling by a Sioux Indian wrestler named Ben Bolt, Tenario achieved his big break when he went to El Paso, Texas, and wrestled under the name ‘Little Wolf’ around 1929. Wrestling variously as Little Wolf, Ben or Benny Tenario, by 1935 he was ‘Chief Little Wolf’ and a contender for the US National Wrestling Association world heavyweight championship. In February he nearly claimed the title by default, when the legendary ‘Golden Greek’, Jim Londos, refused to turn up for a scheduled match against him.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
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Garibaldi, Gino, 1907-1984
Chief Little Wolf, 1911-1984 - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
- Wrestlers--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_13198
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002hnbsj
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. - License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .