Freak Show Display

**Blumpkin** · 06-21-2010,04:45 PM

So with all the great ideas coming up about carival/circus themes I started to reseach those old freak/side show posters. Look closely at this one. Eh?

I guess Australians were pretty rare in those days?

**Blumpkin** · 06-21-2010,04:53 PM

Wow these things just keep getting creepier but in a good way

**Ghost of Spookie** · 06-21-2010,05:08 PM

That 1885 first poster is hilarious but actually the world was a much smaller place way back when and I'm guessing that the majority of people didn't get an opportunity to meet people from other lands so foreigners were a curiosity to them. I too laughed at the Australians. I figured the way they were dressed maybe they were actually Austrians in some sort of alpine garb! so it was a typo. And I guess the second poster was a mer-man of sorts. hehe.

Thanks for starting this thread. I too have been doing some research on sideshows for a circus/carnival theme so this could turn into an interesting tie-in thread.

**Tumblindice** · 06-21-2010,06:40 PM

The first one is really funny, Africans, Mexicans, Indians, wow times sure have changed.

**creepyhomemaker** · 06-21-2010,07:11 PM

I love that poster. I want it!

**Blumpkin** · 06-22-2010,05:20 AM

**Blumpkin** · 06-22-2010,05:25 AM

You know really large people are featured a lot in these things. I guess before our fast food culture took off somebody of that size was an oddity rather than the norm.

Also I'm seeing Tattoo's as a freak show attraction. Litttle did they know this is how everybody was going to look 100 years later