About Larry Gallone - Little Known Production Member In Early ECW
I found an old blog post talking about the early days of ECW and who helped to grow the company prior to the ECW on TNN launch in late-summer 1999. One little-known name appeared: Larry Gallone.
The blog post (here: http://pwbts.com/columns/b080899.html) had this mention:
There were Kathy Fitzpatrick, and Kathy Donahue at the front door in the early years, as well as Kathy organizing transportation and handling the box office in later years... Bob and Lex Artese running the ECW hotline out of their house, then Bob doing ring announcing... Larry Gallone as assistant director in the early years... Jay "Six-Pack" Sulli commentating first with Steve "Stevie Wonderful" Truitt, then Eddie Gilbert and Tod Gordon... Matt Radico the producer... and even Dick Graham in the pre-SportsChannel Philadelphia when ECW aired on low-power Channel 7 in Philadelphia...
Here is another mention of Larry and other little-known names who helped make ECW into what it became:
There was also Jimmy Gatto, Larry Gallone's cousin, who did anything and everything asked of him as well as Mike Lawler (sound and lighting) who could climb the ''I' beam from the floor to the ceiling like a monkey, Damian Ferren who ran the merchandise table, and our other camera operators Bob and Greg in the early days; and then Ron Buffone and Charlie Bruzzese who later took over the production from Matt Radico. -- http://pwbts.com/columns/2009/b030209.html
Larry also was given a mention in the credits, along with several others, with funny one-liners at the end of an episode of ECW Hardcore TV from 1993. Here are the names: https://www.reddit.com/r/ECWWrestling/comments/1fb9edc/funny_ending_credits_to_ecw_hardcore_tv_in/
You will see those funny credits at the end of the video in this clip:
https://x.com/HistoryOfECW/status/1832418553045402107
If you have any specific stories about Larry or any other names mentioned then please share them. These little-known names to wrestling fans all had their part in helping ECW become the popular promotion which still connects with fans all these years later.
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