20 Old Timey Photos Showing the World Of Classic Carnies
Neill Lynskey
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Join America’s carnies who travelled across the country to entertain audiences with weirdness.
The early 20th century was The Golden Age of carnivals. Before movie theaters proliferated, small town Americans waited all year for the carnival to come around.
Strange sideshows like Teddy the Wrestling Bear and The Smallest Man in the Universe, alongside rigged games and cheap rides were the favorite form of entertainment back in the day. It was all run by people who made their life on the road, roughing it in colorful costumes.
Go back and live alongside the cast of characters who brought strangeness and fun wherever they were.
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1. Carnival barker advertising the “Strongest Man in the Universe”
1930s -
2. Carnival barker at work
1930s -
3. Wheel of fortune carnival game
1930s -
4. Carnival barker during showtime
1940s -
5. Bust Balloon Game, Coney Island
1969 -
6. Shooting gallery for ladies and gents
1930s -
7. Booth for Richard Freeman, “The Smallest Man Alive”
1970s -
8. Carnival barker advertising Teddy the Wrestling Bear
1950s -
9. Win Yourself a Kewpie Doll
1930s -
10. Ten balls, no blanks
1930s -
11. Workers at a rifle target booth
1910 -
12. Pitch ‘Til You Win
1930s -
13. Worker of a penny tossing game
1930s -
14. Worker of “Bowl Up” game
Circa early 1900s -
15. Worker at a knife and gun ring game Circa early
1900s -
16. Guess Your Weight Booth
1941 -
17. Workers of Bust a Balloon
1930s -
18. Carnies taking a break Circa early
1900s -
19. Carnival employee sleeping in hammock underneath wagon, Lasses White Show in Sikeston, Missouri
1938 -
20. Carnies pose for photo
1910s
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