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The Blow-Off

Welcome to The Blow-Off.  This page features miscellaneous & interesting stuff which may include articles, stories, artwork, pictures, links etc. etc. etc. You will find them amazing, shocking, strange, fantastic and even amusing. 

They're real and they're right behind the curtain.

 

 

THE BLOW-OFF

 

 

DO NOT TRY ANY OF THIS AT HOME

Caution some of the acts performed here may be harmful or fatal if not done properly.  Do not attempt anything you see here without professional training

Some images in the Blow-Off may contain Nudity

Movies & Video Clips

 Submitted By
Showtown by Seth Gadsden  
 Hadji Ali - The Amazing Regurgitator

Pete Kolozsy
Johann Petursson - The Viking Giant Kevin Gerrone
Zack and Mack's Great Adventure

Big Kahuna
1959 Vivisection Demikhov Two Headed Dog  
The Spidora Pitch  
Harley Newman 4 Bed, Bed of Nails  
The Enigma

J Strong
Rudy the Oddity  
Jim Rose Circus at the 5th Annual SLC Tattoo Con. Pt 2

Utah Showman
Jim Rose Circus at the 5th Annual SLC Tattoo Con.

Utah Showman
Joanne Whisnant Beach playing the guitar with her feet

Bruce Myers
Pete "Poobah" Terhune  
Gibtown a film by Melissa Shachat & Roger Schult

Pete Kolozsy

Murrugun the Mystic Eats Fire Venice Beach Freakshow

T-Ray
Murrugun the Mystic 4 Swords Venice Beach Freakshow

T-Ray

The Freaks of Nature

T-Ray
Sword Swallowers Duel it out in Houston

Dan Meyer

Dan & Dan on the bally with John Strong III

Dan Meyer

The Headless Woman

J Marshall
Zambora - Girl to Gorilla

R Richmond

Sheba "The Gorilla Girl"

R Richmond
Everythings Real No Magic Illusion

Dylan Blackthorn
999 EYES What's in the Box PT-1?

Dylan Blackthorn
Ballyhoo 999 EYES Video Pt 2

Dylan Blackthorn
999 Eyes Help Wanted

Dylan Blackthorn
Wall of Death

Pete Kolozsy
Jimmy Dixon - Levitation

Pete Kolozsy
Jimmy Dixon - Magic Pitch

Pete Kolozsy
John Shaw & George the Giant The Human Crazy Straw

Utah Showman
Venice Beach Freak Show

T-Ray
X File - 2 X 20-Humbug - Jim Rose - Enigma

Jerry Willman
World of Wonders - Watch it Here....the Ohio State Fair

Logan

The Last Sideshow

Zamora
John Shaw on Opie & Anthony Show Walkover

John Shaw
The Great Orbax on YouTude

Orbax
John Shaw's Commercial for Sneaux Shoes Aired Today

John Shaw
Watch Tod Browning's Movie Freaks Here  
Mouse Traps, Frying Pans & Jim Rose (Then Click Play)

Jerry Willman
Dan the Sword Swallower Dan Meyer Thanksgiving Interview

WGN TV 9 Chicago
See Just How Tight He Throws

  Harry Munroe
Roderick Russell  
Ladder of Death  16 Knives! 0.4 seconds/knife hitting the board!

  Throwdini & Der Werfer
Robert P. Wadlow  
The Jr. Torture King and the 2 Nail Bed

Judy Tomaini Rock
Coney Island 1940  (RM Streaming Video)  
Ladder of Death

  Throwdini & Der Werfer
World of Wonder's 2005 Florida State Fair

Pete Kolozsy

Jimmy Zajiceks Sideshow 2005 Florida State Fair

Pete Kolozsy

Hear the Strange and See the Unusual

The Great Ordax

Alex Zander the Jr. Torture King

Judy Tomaini Rock
Ses Carny Live at Circus-Circus

John Robinson

  Live Bally Recordings & Audio Clips

Submitted By
Danny Borneo Interview on Magic Lantern

 The Magic Lantern
Circus World Woes

Audio Clip WPR
World of Wonders Minnesota State Fair Aug 2006

Audio Clip MPR
Sideshow Art an Interview with Johnny Meah

Victoria Lautman CPR
Retiring from the Circus Sideshow Life

Audio Clip
Sideshow by the Seashore: A Survival Tale

 Audio Clip

Carnival Talkers

Great Audio Clip
Bad Taste Tours Presents the Mutter Museum

Gotta Listen , Great Audio

Jack Nyberg Jam Pitch

Monty Bowman
Listen to P.T. Barnum's  
Clyde Beatty Cole Brothers Bally  
Eddie Carmel the Jewish Giant  
Kids Day at the Sideshow  
Lobster Family  on the Inside

Bob Blackwell & Matt Hely
Watch Her Change Hear the Sounds The Ape Girl

Brian Ezzelle
The Strangest Married Couple on Earth

Judy Tomaini Rock
Bobby Reynold's Bally - Sideshow Museum

Matt Hely
Man Ape from Darkest Africa

Ricky Hargrove
Jimmy Zajicek Live on the Bally Platform

 Rick West
Jimmy Zajicek Live Bally at the Florida State Fair

Rick West
Ward Hall Live at the Florida State Fair

Rick West

    Photographs

Submitted By

Headless Woman Illusion

Private Collection

Frozen Alive Death Defying

Private Collection

Dime Museum auction photos by Joanna Ebenstein

Takeshi Yamada

Coney Island Sideshow

  

Girl in a Goldfish Bowl

 

PT Barnum's Historical Marker

Brian Ezzelle

Royal American Shows Tampa circa 1969

  

Women Give Birth to a Frog

Brian Ezzelle

Lost Civilizations - the Ancient Aztec Children

 

Circus Collection

Ricky Hargrove

Images of P.T. Barnum

  

Image of Tallon -- Bat Boy

Private Colletion

Ron and Harmur Shows

Jeff Murray

Tallon and Roxey Wedding Photo

Tallon Crawford

Dark Deceptions

Todd Robbins

Doc Wilson Gets Taught

Paul Szauter

19th & 20th Century Images of Jumbo

  

X-ray of Marie O'Day

Prof. Gerald Conlogue

Mütter Museum

Scott Bonelli

Johann Petursson Icelandic Giant

Hilda Moody Christiano
   

       Books - Articles - Links

   Submitted By

Three Midgets and a Guitar

 Private Collection

Johan Aasen

 Ben Lonrusten

"The Star", dated Thursday, November 9, 1893

 Private Collection

From 'Monsters' to 'Modern Medical Miracles:

 Roderick Russell

Amok - A GENUINE HEAD HUNTER

 Private Collection

Strange Horny Excrescence on Human Bodies

 Private Collection

The ZOO a program

 Private Collection

Tex Madsen - The Original Texas Giant Cowboy

 Private Collection

Elephantine Colossus

 Private Collection

History of Rudolph  Lucasie

 Private Collection

MAURICE, the Ossified Man

 Private Collection

A Tribute to the Monkey Girl

Tom Hernandez

Loew's Weekly - Coney Island

  

HYDRARCHOS!!

  

Gorilla Susie Dies Won Circus Fame

  

Freaks Uncensored

  

Snake-Charming

 Pete Kolozsy

Marinelli, the Man Snake

 Pete Kolozsy

Mexican's Two Headed Top Oddity

Private Collection

History of Mille & Christine

 Private Collection

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Gould & Pyle

 Rick West

Special Invitation

 Lynne Bell

Hedy Jo Star

 Ward & Pete K

The Astonishing Exhibition of the Wild Men

 Private Collection

Letter to Stanley Burns from Hubert's Dime Museum

 

Reply to Hubert's Dime Museum from Stanley Burns

 

Jim Rose Circus  (WARNING NUDITY-SOME CONTENT NOT SUITABLE FOR ALL READERS)

 

Insectavora - SEE HER HERE!!!

 Jerry Willman

See the Jersey Devil Here!

 Loren Coleman

Rogue Taxidermy

  

Parisian Circus and Venetian Water Carnival

 Private Collection

Carnival Diablo - New Website

Nikolai Diablo

Rubin-Cherry Lilliputian Entertainers

Private Collection

from Billboard Feb-05-1935

Private Collection

The Outlaw Mummy

J Robinson

Barnum's American Museum 1862-Harp's Weekly Ad

  

"The Sideshow"

 

Dream Pictures  Carrie Lynn Lyons

John Robinson

Sideshow Skills According to Harley Newman

Harley Newman

Sideshow Booklist

Amy Johnquest

Capt. Don Leslie Mr. Sideshow

 

PT Barnum's Obituary

J Robinson

Hazel Farris the Murderess's Mummy

 

Ella Kate Ewing the Missouri Giantess

 

40-ft Humpback Whale Skeleton & PT Barnum

J.Robinson

Marvellous Career-Life of Hon Phineas T Barnum

 

Freak Show in My Pocket

J.Robinson

The Oblongs  are a physically deformed & socially inept family living in a town called Hill Valley

 Creator Angus Oblong

Brill Bible of Building Plans

J.Robinson

Tocci Brothers Ad

Marc Hartzman

Freak Chicken

  

Big Head Studio

Scott Bonelli

A Shrine to Homer Tate the Desert Pygmy King

Doug Higley

Waffle House & Dairy Crates

A Conversation

Scary Dark Rides Read it On-line

Doug Higley
   
   

       Artwork - Pitch - Miscellaneous

Submitted By

Harry Gurr - Man Fish

Private Collection

Dollie Dutton

Private Collection

Gen. C. R. Decker

Private Collection

The Del Rios

Private Collection

John the Alligator Boy

Private Collection

Mimi

Private Collection

Amazing Animal Actors

Private Collection

S. Horvath Midgets

Private Collection

Filipino Midgets

Private Collection

Hanging Mary

Private Collection

Otis Jordan

Private Collection

Pop Eye

Private Collection

Estelline

Private Collection

Chained for Life

Private Collection

The Giant Armand Bronner

Private Collection

Karo the Monkey Girl

Private Collection

Adolphine - Europe's Sexual Sensation

Private Collection

Adam and Eve - Third Sex

Private Collection

Zinida Zan Brother and Sister in One Body

Private Collection

Determination Ruth

Private Collection

PRINCE RANDION the Armless and Legless Wonder

Private Collection

Colossus

 Private Collection
The Great Man Eater

Private Collection

Shadow Harry

 Private Collection
The Giant Max Palmer

Private Collection

Devil Man

 Private Collection

MAY-JOE

 Private Collection

George Anderson the Living Skeleton

 Private Collection

The World's Greatest Forepaugh Show

 Private Collection

KRAO The Missing Link

 Private Collection

Rose's Royal Midgets

 Private Collection

The Call of the Calliope

 Private Collection

Commodore Foote's Dream

 Private Collection

Major Ray and Wife

 Private Collection

James McIndoo

 Private Collection

The Blue Man

Private Collection

The Porter Giant

 Private Collection

Mrs. General Tom Thumb

 Private Collection

M. M. Klass Congress of Living Wonders

 Private Collection

Col. H.A. Cooper  World's Largest Man

 Private Collection

The Greatest Attraction Ever Offered

 Private Collection

Hoppoe the Frog Boy

 Private Collection

Johnny J. Jones Midgets

 Private Collection

Barney Baldwin

 Private Collection

Sylvester the Mummy

 Private Collection

The Biddenden Maids

Private Collection

Monya - World's Odd-itorium

 Private Collection

Tiny Tim and Life in the Circus

 Private Collection

Major Chas. Gantz

 Private Collection

Petrified Man & the 4 legged Chicken

 Private Collection
Zamora - Get the Point - S&A No.9 Cover Art  byMark Frierson

Spidora

 Private Collection
Hoppie Private Collection

Johnny Eck-Living Half Boy

 Private Collection
3 Fingered Jack Private Collection

"WHAT IS IT?"

 Private Collection
My Life Story by Gilbert A. Reichert Private Collection

Esther Blackmon Alligator Skin Girl

 Private Collection
Little Stevie - Seal Boy Private Collection

Charlie Campbell Presents Marie O'Day

 Private Collection
Col L.O. (Hoot) Black Poster & Pitch Private Collection

Fanny Mills the Ohio Big Foot Girl

 Private Collection

Hoffman's Novelty Circus

 Private Collection

Isaac W. Sprague

 Private Collection

Images from Tod Browning's FREAKS

 Private Collection

Mammoth Research Museum

 Private Collection

DIAVOLO Looping the Loop on a Bicycle

 Private Collection

Alligator Boy

 Private Collection
World's Smallest Bible Private Collection

Body Turned to Stone

 Private Collection

Radica and Doodica

 Private Collection

Athelia

 Private Collection

Betty Lou/Lue William

 Private Collection

Blackstone on Gillette

 Private Collection

Hananuma Masakichi & Robert Ripley

 Private Collection

Anita See Her Here......

 Private Collection

Beware Creature Inside

 Private Collection

Ripley's - Johnny Eck

 Private Collection

Alice Doherty - The Minnesota Woolly Baby,

 Private Collection

Prince Randian of Guyana

 Private Collection

Doraldina 1930 Canadian Tour

 Private Collection

Life History of a Half Man-Half Woman

 Private Collection

Images of The Giant Hugo

 Private Collection

Mr & Mrs Tom Thumb