World Circus Sideshow information

The World Circus Side Show was a sideshow owned and operated by "Professor" Samuel Wagner from 1922 to 1941 on Surf Avenue, Coney Island, New York. Known...

In North America, a sideshow is an extra, secondary production associated with a circus, carnival, fair, or other such attraction. There are four main...

The Jim Rose Circus is a modern-day version of a circus sideshow. It was founded in Seattle in 1991 by Jim Rose and his wife BeBe Aschard Rose.[citation...

A flea circus is a circus sideshow attraction in which fleas are attached (or appear to be attached) to miniature carts and other items, and encouraged...

American performer who performed at many freak shows, including the World Circus Sideshow in 1941 under the stage name of Sealo the Seal Boy (often stylized...

who, after developing acromegaly, toured the circus sideshow circuit as "the ugliest woman in the world". Mary Ann Webster was one of 8 children born...

American circus performer who starred in the sideshow for over 25 years, 20 of which were with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. He was 2 ft...

shows were an act in traveling carnivals and circuses of early America and were often part of a larger sideshow. The billed performer's act consisted of a...

dime museums. In the circus world, freak shows, also called sideshows, were an essential part of the circus. The largest sideshow was attached to the most...

In 1992, it was Circus of the Stars and Sideshow, in 1993 it became Circus of the Stars Gives Kids the World, and in 1994, it was Circus of the Stars Goes...

30, 1890 – May 31, 1920) was an American entertainer, showman and circus sideshow performer during the early 20th century, who was billed as "the living...

Circus, Clyde Beatty Circus, Tom Mix Circus, Crafts 20 Big Shows, and Foley & Burke Carnival. In 1928, Schlitzie made his film debut in The Sideshow,...

1879 – July 21, 1945) was an American bearded lady who worked in circus sideshows, dime museums and carnivals, who used various stage names including...

fire eater can be an entertainer, a street performer, part of a sideshow or a circus act but has also been part of spiritual tradition in India. Fire...

the Ringling Brothers Circus, appearing at Madison Square Garden and the Boston Garden in the center ring (never in the sideshow). During his appearances...

art (Hardy Marks, 1997) Francine Hornberger, Carny folk: the world's weirdest sideshow acts (Citadel Press, 2005). Meger, Sarah A. "The Baltimore Tattoo...

Century American Circus. San Bernardino, Calif: Borgo Press. p. 30. LaSala, Francine (2005). Carny folk: the world's weirdest sideshow acts. New York:...

multiple-ring circuses, and was also the first circus entrepreneur to use circus trains to transport the circus between towns. By the 1830s, sideshows were also...

Barnum and Bailey Circus, appearing as Omi the Zebra Man. He was billed as the star attraction in the sideshow, but left the circus after only one season...

dwarfism from Stolpen, Germany. They were popular performers in circuses and sideshows in the United States from the mid-1910s until their retirement in...

dull lives of people. One evening, they see a sign for a carnival with a sideshow. Upon arriving they see a fun fair with carousels, games, and other entertainment...

Missouri woman considered the world's tallest female of her era. She would use her great height to earn a living as a sideshow attraction, popularly known...

1730, was a performer in various circus sideshows in the mid-18th century. He is chiefly known for having the world's longest nose, allegedly measuring...

in a traveling circus, and appeared in the 1939 New York World's Fair. Nacken was the tallest soldier in the German Army during World War II at a height...