Video: Remembering The Sportatorium and Big D Jamboree
By Anne Bothwell | September 9, 2008
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The 4,000 seat Dallas Sportatorium made its debut as a wrestling arena, but beginning in the 1940s, it was home to the Big D Jamboree, a music show in the spirit of the Grand Old Opry. Watch this segment from Nowhere But Texas 2, first broadcast tonight on KERA Television, to see the impact the music and the venue had on Dallas.
Nowhere But Texas 2 airs again Sept. 13 at 11:30 a.m.
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Beyond the sweet notes of the Big D jamboree, "No Where But Texas 2″ is an inspiring show. This one aims straight for the heart. A shout out to Linda Stogner, Therese Powell, Tom Pribyl , Ginny Martin and Rick Thompson — the artful producing staff.
Excellent for you to feature composer Mack Price in the pledge break. He deserves recognition for composing so many music tracks for KERA productions in such a faithful way.
Good job, as always, KERA ,for chronicling our culture.
loved it but wanted to see more of it my father used to preform there was hopeing i might catch a glimps of him he use to do back up for some of the bands and help set up the ring he use to tell me about fritz von erick and all the old time wrestlers matter a fact said he use to bounce david von erick on his knee he also did the hay ride and backed elvis and played with jonny horton been looking for info where ever i could on him a lot of his stuff got lost when he went into the service and when his mom passed i hope you put on more about it soon thanks sincerly