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2 unusual facts about Traveling carnival


Johnny J. Jones

Johnny J. Jones (June 8, 1874 – December 25, 1930), billed as "The Mighty Monarch of the Tented World" and "The Midway King”', was a prominent showman in the America's carnival industry.

Summercourt fair

Apart from the market, the principal attraction is the funfair provided by travelling showmen of The Showmens Guild's western section.



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Queen of Knives

Set in a traveling carnival in the midst of the student protests in Birmingham, Alabama in the early 1960s, the opera tells the story of a brother and sister knife-throwing act.

Robert G. L. Waite

To supplement his scholarship and to earn whatever spending money he could, Waite held a variety of jobs, from working in the open pit mines of the Mesabi Range in northern Minnesota to guarding the supposed corpse of John Wilkes Booth in a traveling carnival.

Roustabout

Roustabout was a 1964 musical movie starring Elvis Presley, Barbara Stanwyck, and Joan Freeman in a story set in a traveling carnival — for which Presley recorded the song titled "Roustabout".