the “freaks” and showing them to whoever paid.
William Henry Johnson whose stage name was Zip the Pinhead was born with a cylinder shaped head and advertised as the missing link between humans and apes. Chang and Eng Bunker also known as the siamese twins who were seen as strange conjoined twins.
Sideshows started to lose popularity at basically died of during the 1950s, here’s why. First people had other distractions at the time(movies, tv, etc.) that steered them away from sideshows. Also scientists…
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