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Question Title

Submission Date

Project on Sideshow Characters	05-05-2008
Dee Elmer Speer?	04-14-2008
Yes I have a Al Tomaini Giant Ring	03-31-2008
High Striker	03-25-2008
Chief Black Cloud & Prairie Flower	03-16-2008
My Grandfather's Wild West Show	03-04-2008
Affiliated with Virginia Shows, Inc.	02-29-2008
Plans for the Girl to Gorilla Illusion	02-22-2008
AD-Brill Plans Tilton Hilton	02-19-2008
The Folks in the Photos	02-18-2008
Family Album	01-05-2008
Wood Cut?	12-01-2007
The Ugliest Man in the World!	11-26-2007
What's a Sideshow?	11-20-2007
FREAKS Sign - from Venice Pier Long Ago?	10-31-2007
The Long and Short of It!	10-27-2007
What is the Correct Term?	10-21-2007
Sideshow Tricks Exposed & Heaney Magic Show	10-19-2007
Girl to Gorilla Banners & Bally	10-13-2007
Zandu/Zandua the Turkey Boy	09-24-2007
Famous Fords	09-22-2007
The Giant from Iceland?	08-31-2007
Danakas Wonder Show	08-25-2007
R.B.B.B. Circus - G.F.	08-21-2007
"Penguin Man"	07-02-2007
Pablo Fanque	07-01-2007
Hamid Morton Circus	06-26-2007
Dodson's World Fair Show - Tokens	06-25-2007
Reproductions and Banner Prints	06-15-2007
Human Remains & Sideshow	06-08-2007
Johann Petursson and His Giant Rings	06-02-2007
Greatest Show on Earth	05-21-2007
Grace McDanels	05-20-2007
How Do You Preserve a Two Headed Pig?	05-13-2007
Concerns for the 6 Legged Calf!	05-15-2007
Gaffs! Where Can I Find Them?	05-13-2007
Sideshow Flash	05-04-2007
Who are They???	04-20-2007
Hitler's Mercedes	04-09-2007
Howard Bone	03-16-2007
Where can I find the People on the Discovery Channel	03-08-2007
Sideshow Banner	03-06-2007
Jonda the Great	02-19-2007
Hubert's Museum	02-09-2007
Hoople?	02-01-2007
Giant's Camp Cafe	01-30-2007
Who's in the Photos?	01-24-2007
African American Carnivals of the Past	01-21-2007
Little Giant Beverage Company	01-03-2007
Gaffs?	12-07-2006
J.G. Tarver	12-03-2006
What's the Protocol?	11-27-2006
Working on a bio of Mabel Stark	11-22-2006
Hitler's Car	11-02-2006
? Regarding Half People	10-31-2006
Disney Hat Company	10-27-2006
Robinson Famous Shows	10-26-2006
Girl to Gorilla Set-Up	10-13-2006
Dolly the Two-Headed Cow	10-01-2006
Carny Code?	09-29-2006
The Whale & the Flea Show	09-26-2006
Merry-Go-Round, Flying Jenny or Carousel?	09-22-2006
Tilt - A - Whirl and Himalaya	09-09-2006
Frankie Rios	09-06-2006
"Worlds Smallest Woman"	07-19-2006
Looking for Information about my Great Grandfather????	07-11-2006
Girl to Gorilla - Another Question?	07-05-2006
Disconnected - A Question????????	06-14-2006
Just Wondering	06-03-2006
Joe Coleman Exhibit in NYC	05-05-2006
Looking to Contact Octoman	04-13-2006
Sale & Exhibition of the Bonnie & Clyde Death Car	04-12-2006
???? About - If You're With-it - You'll Know-it!	04-08-2006
Looking for my Mother and Father	04-07-2006
I Seen a Man Do a Trick	03-29-2006
Jumbo Clockwork Walking Elephant	03-22-2006
"Pop-Eye"	02-28-2006
I Grew-Up on Gene Holter's Wild Animal Shows	02-24-2006
I Found an Al Tomaini Ring	02-22-2006
Info Wanted about Nellie Lane who became Nellie Terrell	02-15-2006
Great Grandma Ran Away and Joined the Sideshow	02-10-2006
The wonders of the "WONDER MOUSE"	02-09-2006
Original Sideshow Banners	02-06-2006
The Shield Brother - The Texas Giants	01-23-2006
Tallest Married Couple on Earth	01-22-2006
What is a Sideshow	01-20-2006
"JP" The Viking Giant	01-18-2006
Boy Who Cheated the Electric Chair	12-30-2005
Who Owns the Grindshows	12-27-2005
Behind the Glass?	12-04-2005
Higley's Dark Museum	12-02-2005
Winter in Gibtown	11-29-2005
Who's that Laff-in, in the Funhouse???	11-15-2005
A Historic Look at Ferris's Wheel	11-14-2005
Bonnie and Clyde's Death Car Poster	10-18-2005
Girl to Gorilla Plans	10-18-2005
Two Men on a Bicycle	10-02-2005
Photographs of Carson & Barnes Circus	09-30-2005
American Medicine Show Pitch and Material	09-23-2005
"Tallest Married Couple on Earth"	09-13-2005
Pip and Flip	09-08-2005
Lobster Hands	08-25-2005
Sideshows Currently on Tour	07-31-2005
Mummy Prop	07-23-2005
Christine the Gorilla Girl	07-17-2005
Medicine Show Pitch	06-29-2005
Feejee Mermaid	05-03-2005
Alive with Pete Turhurne	04-22-2005
Who Owned Marie O'Day	04-19-2005
Carnival life in the 1960s	04-08-2005

Oofty Goofty

03-26-2005

Tom Thumb Trade Cards

03-16-2005

The Kelly Miller Circus

01-18-2005

Bat Boy Banner

01-15-2005

Earthly Remains a Clown's Story

01-06-2005

Who Is Buried Between Annie & Frank?

12-31-2004

Ed Gein's Car & It's Sideshow Connection

12-24-2004

"The Snake that Killed Sailor Katzy"

12-23-2004

I'm Interested in Collecting Bally

11-23-2004

John Robinson's Circus

10-21-2004

Melvin Burkhart

09-29-2004

Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite

09-17-2004

Tip To The Blowoff

08-18-2004

A Better Ride In The Old Days?

08-07-2004

The Bonnie & Clyde Ambush Film

07-19-2004

The Bonnie & Clyde Death Car

07-13-2004

Cletus & Shorty

07-06-2004

The Elephant Foot Girl

07-05-2004

Hitler's Real Car

06-30-2004

2nd Career For John Wilkes Booth

06-29-2004

Giant Sewer Rats

06-25-2004

Does Anyone Know? Vera Ampero Hastings (aka Sherry Panay)

06-04-2004

3 Ball Charlie

05-21-2004

Baby Shows, Pickled Punks & Bouncers

05-17-2004

Big Eli^� Pictures

05-12-2004

The Texas Giant

05-11-2004

The Nelson Supply House

04-26-2004

Billboard Magazine

04-24-2004

Who's That On The Cover

04-23-2004

King Of The Freaks

04-20-2004

Currier & Ives Photos Of The Curious

04-15-2004

What Is A Dropcase?

04-06-2004

A Little Lingo Please

03-29-2004

Who Is The Lighthouse Man?

03-23-2004

Little Man In The Cage

03-20-2004

Shrunken Head Banners

03-19-2004

The Circus Disaster March

03-08-2004

Who Is In This Photo?

03-07-2004

Bergmann, Circus Band Director?

03-05-2004

The Might Page Shows

02-21-2004

Ward Hall's First Job

02-20-2004

Jack & Rose Donahue

02-03-2004

Straitjacket Escapes

01-07-2004

The Chupacabra

01-03-2004

Jake The Alligator Man

12-24-2003

Joanne & Jimmy Beach

12-23-2003

The Legend Of Marie O'Day

12-22-2003

Gorilla Girl Banner

12-22-2003

What Powered The Scrambler^�

12-13-2003

Zip The Pinhead

12-06-2003

Great Circus Train Wreck of 1918

11-20-2003

Barnum In Jail

11-19-2003

Lady Olga

11-17-2003

A Headless Chicken?

11-14-2003

The Headless Girl

10-22-2003

Six-Foot Man Eating Chicken

10-21-2003

The Giant Kentucky Bat

10-21-2003

Dime Museums

10-19-2003

Keys To The Midway

10-11-2003

Half & Half's

10-11-2003

Coney Island History

09-27-2003

Sideshow: Circus Or Carnival

09-27-2003

Ballyhoo

09-26-2003

The Blowoff

09-24-2003

Giant Rings

09-20-2003

Circus & Sideshow Superstitions

09-19-2003

Show Banner Origins

09-18-2003

Carnival Rides Today and Yesteryear

09-16-2003

Bloody Mama

09-10-2003

Please Note

This section is not for questions regarding information on how to perform acts, where to learn acts, etc. It is designed for historical style questions only. All other questions will be disregarded. A name (or alias), state and town is required for your question to be considered.