Camp Moolah
101 Moolah Dr
Columbia, SC 29223
From Mike Mooneyham:
The Fabulous Moolah lived on a 42-acre estate in north Columbia - appropriately dubbed "Camp Moolah" - that included a 13-room home, eight- and 12-acre lakes, a row of lake houses and a gym equipped with a wrestling ring where she had taught hundreds of men and women to wrestle. She had bought the land nearly 40 years ago, with only a lake house occupying the area at the time, and later decided to build her home there, with her estate located in the back of a tranquil neighborhood in the suburbs of Columbia. Her land had once extended even further until Interstate 77 was built, and she sold several acres to the state to accommodate the highway.
"The Amazing" Mae Young, who started wrestling in the late '30s and helped break Moolah into the sport, had shared the home with Moolah for years. "She was in California and had lost all of her family, and I told her this big place was just sitting here and she could have the whole upstairs," Moolah once explained. The two, both members of the Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame, were delightful hosts and reservoirs of grappling history. A couple of ordinary senior citizens they weren't.
In many ways a visit inside the gates at the end of Moolah Drive was akin to a trip to a very cool grandmother's house. In this case, though, a pair of grannies who could whip you and your posse if it ever came down to it. And if you needed proof, you only had to venture a few hundred feet away to watch the old girls in action, training (and stretching) aspiring young women (and men) grapplers with ease at their official training facility, a cramped building that resembled a little red barn.
Read the rest of the article here:
Moolah Enjoyed Fabulous Career
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