Source: By Peggy Ussery – Dothon Eagle
Step right up, folks, and take in the sights of Black Jack the Giant Steer and Hercules the Giant Horse. Or, sneak a peek at the World’s Smallest Horse, but don’t touch — he bites.
You can see it all for only a couple of dollars.
It just wouldn’t be [...]
By Amy Bickel – The Hutchinson News
Operator calls it the last traveling one in the nation as venue’s past its heyday.
When Ward Hall ran away from his family’s Nebraska home to join the circus as a flame eater at the age of 15, his father told him he’d be back in just two weeks.
But that [...]
KMBC-TV
Display Brings Back Carnival Sideshow Items
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LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — The days of the carnival sideshow are being brought back to life at the C.W. Parker Carousel Museum in Leavenworth.
The oddities that used to lure people into sideshows in the late 1800s through the 1950s, such as the two-headed creature, the mermaid and [...]
A headless lady, a moving mummy and a girl in a goldfish bowl are among the spectacles brought to life as part of a new exhibition charting Britain’s seaside sideshows.
By Alastair Jamieson – Telegraph.co.uk
The illusions, once a common feature of piers and promenades, have been recreated for the first time since falling out of fashion [...]
