James Taylor's Shocked and Amazed! On & Off the Midway, Vol. 9
Book Details
PublisherDolphin-Moon Press
ISBN / ASIN0940475103
ISBN-139780940475106
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
Description
- Zamora the Torture King Cridland interview
- Manuel King (once billed as the World's Youngest Animal Trainer when he was 10yrs. old back in the '30s) interview
- Excerpt from RATTLING YOURS - THE STORY OF SNAKE KING (the man who supplied pretty much all the carnival shows with the bulk of their exotic animals)
- Excerpt from John Strausbaugh's BLACK LIKE YOU (historical origins of minstrelsy)
- Medicine shows!Â
- Hubert's Museum: Dime After DimeÂ
- Next installment of The Strand; on variety entertainment at the turn of the century
- Next installment of Walt Hudson's Coney Island Baby
- History of Ken Harck's Bros. Grim Sideshow photo essay
- Joseph Pujol (yeah, Le Petomane) and our discovery that, in spite of the urban myth to the contrary, he really existed (as opposed to: he was a hoax) and f*rted for a living
- Carny Lingo
- AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!
