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The
Good Old Days
Welcome
to The Good Old Days. This page features sideshow stories, personal experiences, jackpots and more that have been
submitted to Sideshow World from fans, performers, show owners and
other sideshow related individuals. Some of the stories are
short, some are long, but all of them are "in their own words!"
Also,
don't forget to check out...
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Stories From Other Great Authors |
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Title
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Date/Author/Submitted By |
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Ramar |
04-28-2008 |
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Koringa
the Only Woman Fakir |
04-20-2008 |
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Traveling Animal Shows Take Good Care Of Their
Business |
03-25-2008 |
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The Kalamazoo County Fair |
03-23-2008 |
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Papa's Hat & Zaza
the Monkey Girl |
03-05-2008 |
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'Grand Theatre
Mecanique Frere Morieux
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A Fairground Attraction |
03-03-2008 |
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The Kind of Man that Makes Big Men Feel Small! |
03-01-2008 |
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According to
Martha |
02-20-2008 |
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..Happy to be a
56.1 Miler.. Pt 3 |
02-11-2008 |
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..Happy to be a
56.1 Miler.. Pt 2 |
02-07-2008 |
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Collecting Human
Oddities |
02-03-2008 |
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..Happy to be a
56.1 Miler.. Pt 1 |
01-29-2008 |
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Rose's Royal Midgets
a Tales of the Tiny Folk. |
01-26-2008 |
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The History of
the REAL Pickled PUNKS!! |
01-08-2008 |
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Just
Reminiscing Here.... |
12-30-2007 |
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Frank C. Bostock
- St.
Nicholas Garden |
12-16-2007 |
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John Aasen Why
Worry? |
12-10-2007 |
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This is the Story
of Ferdinand The Bull... |
12-02-2007 |
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Giant's Eye-View of
the Circus |
11-23-2007 |
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Ray R. Ryers -
World Famous Armless Musician 2 |
11-04-2007 |
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Ray R. Myers - World
Famous Armless Musician |
11-03-2007 |
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Doug Higley's
-True Wonders Old Time Museum |
10-09-2007 |
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The Balloon
Wedding |
08-23-2007 |
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Gruber's "Oddities
of the Jungle" |
08-11-2007 |
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Mrs. Partingtons
Visit to Barnums........... |
07-28-2007 |
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Lecture on
the Esquimaux |
07-26-2007 |
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Hilton
Sisters, Little Girls, Modern Siamese Twins.... |
06-19-2007 |
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Separation of
Chang and Eng |
06-17-2007 |
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Barnum's
Cannibals |
06-09-2007 |
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Sucker Days |
05-20-2007 |
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"Head Down Harry" |
05-17-2007 |
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Magical
Sideshow life displayed in book |
05-02-2007 |
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Baltimore's Last
Circus |
05-01-2007 |
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Monkey Pitch |
04-30-2007 |
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The Egg of Doom |
04-18-2007 |
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Sideshow Freak
- Strange People And Managers |
04-12-2007 |
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Rock Concert vs. the Circus |
03-28-2007 |
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MARTIN AND OSA
JOHNSON SAFARI MUSEUM |
03-22-2007 |
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Melvin Burkhart Man, Magic, Wonder Pt 8 |
02-28-2007 |
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Melvin Burkhart Man, Magic, Wonder Pt 7 |
02-21-2007 |
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Melvin
Burkhart Man, Magic, Wonder Pt 6 |
02-14-2007 |
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Melvin Burkhart Man, Magic, Wonder Pt 5 |
02-06-2007 |
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Melvin
Burkhart Man, Magic, Wonder Pt 4 |
01-25-2007 |
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Jonathan Bass - Turned to Stone |
01-22-2007 |
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Melvin Burkhart
Man, Magic, Wonder Pt 3 |
01-19-2007 |
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Melvin Burkhart
Man, Magic, Wonder Pt 2 |
01-03-2007 |
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Melvin Burkhart
Man, Magic, Wonder Pt 1 |
01-01-2007 |
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The Great Circus
Sideshow P&P |
12-31-2006 |
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The
Famous
Wild Animal Tamer-Terrell Jacobs
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12-27-2006 |
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Introducing the
Amazing Seven Sutherland Sisters! |
12-23-2006 |
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The Late Mr. P. T.
Barnum |
12-06-2006 |
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Frankie Rio |
12-03-2006 |
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Monkey Boy |
11-03-2006 |
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It's Common
Courtesy |
10-25-2006 |
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Letter from Harvey |
10-19-2006 |
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My Week of Being
"With It" |
10-11-2006 |
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Higley & Bigfoot on
the Road |
10-02-2006 |
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Accessories
at Barnum's |
09-14-2006 |
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Bailey's
Crossroads |
09-06-2006 |
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Great Bostock Show |
08-14-2006 |
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Great
Conflagration |
06-30-2006 |
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"Zanilla the Gorilla" |
06-29-2006 |
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The Matrimonial
Experiences of Col. Goshen |
06-21-2006 |
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The
Death of Jumbo |
06-17-2006 |
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Big Letters & The
Elephant |
04-22-2006 |
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The Swedish Nightengale |
04-21-2006 |
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Minnesota Iceman |
04-09-2006 |
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Marie O'Day's Palace
Car LYNCHBURG |
03-29-2006 |
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Nelsonville
Circuses |
03-05-2006 |
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Jolly Nellie Lane
Sideshow Attraction |
02-27-2006 |
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A Word about Museums |
02-19-2006 |
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Mr Barnum on Museums |
02-21-2006 |
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A Word about Museums |
02-19-2006 |
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My Grand Father Frank
Shields |
02-18-2006 |
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"What
is it?" Advertisement |
02-17-2006 |
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Robert Hales - There
be Giants in Norfolk
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02-16-2006 |
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Whats the Weirdest
Single-O on the Midway
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01-27-2006 |
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The
Great Traveling Museum
Menagerie |
01-25-2006 |
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Todd -- how did you get started?
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01-06-2006 |
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Opening Day & the End
of the Story |
12-29-2005 |
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Dings |
12-11-2005
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Barnum and the Fejee
Mermaid |
11-09-2005 |
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The Life of Joice Heth
Nurse to George
Washington |
11-07-2005
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Step Right Up! Guess
Your Weight and Age |
11-04-2005
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"I
Arrived with No Money in
my Pocket" |
10-29-2005 |
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The
Original Human Blockhead |
10-22-2005 |
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Fun with Parasitic
Twins |
10-20-2005 |
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Boy Acrobat in Barnum's
Show |
10-11-2005 |
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Grandpa and His Thing |
08-31-2005 |
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Homer M. Tate's Studio |
08-28-2005 |
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Trouble at the Next
Spot! |
08-14-2005 |
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It was not the Show it was the Tale that you
Told |
08-13-2005 |
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A Letter About a
Friend |
08-08-2005 |
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Accessible Restrooms,
NOT!
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08-06-2005 |
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Bowman's Been Playing The
Guessing Game |
08-04-2005 |
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The
Adventures of the Giant Rats & Horse
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07-25-2005 |
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Jack Nyberg at the
Salem, VA Fair |
07-14-2005 |
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Sideshow Arts Saved Bar Harbor Maine
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07-06-2005 |
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Zip
"The What Is It?" Host Circus Freaks |
06-11-2005 |
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Circus And Museum Freaks |
05-26-2005 |
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Mistaken
for a Ticking Time Bomb |
05-23-2005 |
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Zip Grins In Death, Mask
Off At Last |
05-20-2005 |
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The Blade Box |
05-16-2005 |
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"What Is It?" |
05-14-2005 |
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Dancing Turkeys and Wildmen |
05-13-2005 |
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The Golden Snake |
05-11-2005 |
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Dime
Museum |
05-07-2005 |
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Freak Out |
05-06-2005 |
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The Volpus
and The Two Headed Man |
05-03-2005 |
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Some Recollections |
05-02-2005 |
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The Lady Under the Bed |
04-10-2005 |
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Tate's Curiosity Shop |
04-03-2005 |
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Welcome To Showbiz |
03-29-2005 |
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The Art of the Talker 2 |
03-19-2005 |
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40 Miler |
03-18-2005 |
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Forbidden Zone |
03-14-2005 |
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The Art of the Talker |
03-13-2005 |
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Live from the Florida
State Fair |
02-27-2005 |
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"Sideshows, the way we know them, extend back in time for a
little more than one hundred years. Some of the acts we do are
ancient, with documentation as long as four thousand years ago. As
performers, we are part of that history, and share the
responsibility of continuation.
I would ask all of you to look
around, see what’s happening around you, and document it. It is up
to you to keep a candle burning!" - Slim Price
If
you would like to submit your own stories please email John
Robinson at
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