[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***I stopped going when they dumped the Sideshow.***

I remember them from my youth! The carnival in town, the fat lady who also had a fire eating act! WOW!
Then the New Mexico State Fair in 1956 with their “freaks” I still remember the man who was cut off at the waist, Midgets, The “Octopus Man”, Sword swallowers. AWESOME!

Then the Blue Noses started crying about the “dignity” of the malformed people and got them shut down. They don’t realize the “freaks” often made more money than the common working man and the sideshow was their bread and butter.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

They changed the name of the “fat lady” to “woman with a great personality.”

[JonPreston]

Then the New Mexico State Fair in 1956 with their “freaks” I still remember the man who was cut off at the waist, Midgets, The “Octopus Man”, Sword swallowers. AWESOME!

Wasn't it great! As a kid I recall thinking as I watched this human menagerie, "where and how do they live after the show."? I felt both fear and sorrow for these folks, but for sure I couldn't stop looking :)