Sideshow Capitol of the World - Showman's Museum

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[@amyhigg4646]

Being the daughter of a carny I appreciate this video so much! My dad would tell me about the showman’s conventions and carny stories all the time! Thank you Carpetbagger for all you do!

[@constancegrimes7525]

Hey 🙂🙂😚🙂😚🙂😚🙂😚🙂😚

[@constancegrimes7525]

Carpbaget he has nice the nicest video 😎😎😎😎

[@rubyaceves5122]

What did he do? What type of “carny” was he?

[@amyhigg4646]

Ruby Aceves he traveled from New Orleans to Minnesota through the spring/summer/fall. Slidell LA was home base. Miss him dearly

[@amyhigg4646]

He would put rides together, run game joints, drive trucks, maintenance, he did it all.

[@ThisisDanBell]

I have tried a few times to go to this museum to no avail. So happy to see this video. What a collection!!!

[@TheCarpetbagger]

Thanks man! It has really limited hours, but it’s an awesome collection

[@marybailey-gates3116]

I would to see you guys get together and visit a haunted abandoned amusement park or something.

[@cindyrichards1118]

Looks like it didnt happen yet Mary

[@amberdawn2601]

I have vague memories of the wooden swan ride at the county fair, but every time I googled it I found nothing, so thanks for proving it existed!

[@raventhunderwings]

Being a retired carney, I thank you for this video! it was great seeing some of the things I actually saw in person back in the day and seeing some of the memorabilia of folks I actually did know

[@tamarrajames3590]

I travelled with the Pete Cortes “last of the circus sideshows” in the 60s when I was 17. I performed 3 characters, I got into the box and avoided the blades as they were placed in...* was Electricia, the electrical woman, and the snake charmer...and would occasionally”introduce Ronny and Annie, the Siamese twins we kept in a big jar of formaldehyde. I left them to Winter in Petersburg Florida, they wanted me to stay on...but I had too many other things I wanted to do. The life of a Carny was never dull or boring, and after the paying customers were gone, the midway was ours, it’s own tight community. I’m glad I did it, and not sorry I moved on either. Thanks for bringing back the memories of a classic 10 in 1 before the endarrived.🖤🇨🇦

[@larrychappell6677]

I am a former carnie who worked for a show based in Gibtown. Unfortunately the show is no longer in business and I'm retired but I have fond memories of the city. When I left the museum was still being built. Thank you for going and making it.

[@matturban9103]

Alive!!! Inside!!! Jacob the Carpetbagger and his Amazing Mutton chops!!!

[@f86sabjf]

Miss the old carnivals . I loved all of you that made the world magical and mystical . You will never be forgotten.

[@af1067]

Father Mac was the only priest in that area that would even speak to the carny people. Most other "men of God" said they were abominations. He would preform most of the marriages and he even blessed the trains when they left for their season. He was a wonderful man.

[@zerxilk8169]

Good for him. You can tell the ones that live(d) like Jesus.

[@deniseconaway701]

Now that was genuinely interesting Jacob, really good memorabilia, to have a picture with Daisy the cow while she was still alive x great museum x Daisy Mae x

[@macavitymacavity]

That Carnival miniature diorama is the GREATEST THING EVER!!!

[@debi1451]

I adored the diorama, It was really cool!.

[@debi1451]

Thanks Jacob!. I love anything to do with old Carnivals and Amusement parks!.

[@danielallen1397]

Boy are used to live in Gibsonton Florida and what you’re showing I am proud of I was a corny for a very long time and Ward Hall was the master most of which are showing I’ve seen out on the road but I give a lot of respect to the people who still do that job it takes a lot of heart and a lot of work and I can honestly say I’m proud of that worldThey’ve come along way rest in peace ward in Pete

[@Tadpole_Plyrr2]

Awww I think it’s really sweet you got to see Daisy Mae again! That’s really cool

[@shadenightwalker904]

This videos are very educational

[@kingtraviselgreat9836]

Shade Nightwalker yes

[@RhettyforHistory]

Fascinating museum! I remember these shows being more prevalent when I was a kid. I've always wondered what happened to some of the people who were in them.

[@StephenKyle91]

Come back thru Oklahoma & check out frontier city! Tulsa is also working on getting Bells amusement park back up & running!

[@philiphogan1351]

I'm in Oklahoma also. Pretty cool.

[@StephenKyle91]

Last I heard, the developer is choosing between two different sites for its location atm. Carpetbagger could also stop by The Gathering Place if he came thru Tulsa

[@kimberlyfoster7148]

Oklahoma here too!!

[@davidchance534]

@@kimberlyfoster7148 love Tulsa , moved here 20 yrs ago.

[@PeteRondeau]

Nothing says Sideshow to me more than images of Pete Terhune and Melvin Burkhart. I remember seeing them at the York Fair when I was a kid

[@HaleyluvsJacob]

What a neat little place full of history!

[@doloresvargas6450]

i remember going with my Mom and Steve to the Ringling Bros.Barnum &Bailey Circus in the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum.Tony has spoken.

[@mcwatersd]

What an incredible place. That was fantastic. Belmont Park here in Montreal had a side show up until just before the park closed. Keep Safe❤Keep Well❤

[@kimsilcox1160]

One of the best place's you been too.

[@sandysandy8184]

This is why love America 👍

[@freyawant1104]

my brother in law is a traveller and still does the wall of death with his family I've lived with my sister and we went travelling with them whilst they were opening shows I helped set up it was awesome to watch them do tricks and all sorts they're call "the messhams wall of death"

[@mystfaex8794]

Careful what you wish for, J! You could wake up in a "Goosebumps" book! 🤗

[@suejones5295]

This was so cool! I remember some of the rides and games. Thanks!

[@annabear666]

I loved your video Jacob, everything held my attention, I remember seeing all those things at the carnivals. Thanks for showing us this 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@qdood]

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[@Dr170]

Glad to see you got that copyright extension ahead of time.

[@ReapWhatYaSow]

The allure of the ride going through the tent with murals of Ireland is for all of those Irish immigrants that fled due to the famine. They loved attractions featuring pictures of their home, because they missed it dearly and knew they would never see it again. I saw it on the show "Hell on Wheels". It seemed historically factual enough, so I take it as fact. No one is alive to confirm if it so. Short of doing indepth research and since I am of German ancestry, that is as far as my information into that goes.

[@TikiKrissy]

You always teach me something new! Didn't know the phrase "scissor bucket"! Thank you!

[@leslie2149]

That carousel is a Herschell Carousel. There is a Herschell carousel factory museum in North Tonawanda, NY. A place I've been to. Always nice to see the old carousels intact.

[@runninggirl9991]

My aunt ran a "Fiddle Sticks" stand in the 70's...and they WERE good.

[@follkiej]

Oh geez! I rode that Sky Fighter back in the day!

[@krystalharwood5240]

5:43 omg bobby bones as a wax figure!

[@kimberlycolezemke2290]

I was there about five months ago. I absolutely love that place

[@skyestimson]

As someone from New Hampshire, I love seeing things from here. The "fatman" liscence plate cracked me up!

[@marinarhettsturgill6085]

I absolutely loved the billy goat carousel piece! I can appreciate that because I'm a goatherder and I like anything goat oriented! I think every carousel that's still around should have a billy goat on it!!🐐

[@MarleyAndRoo]

Jacob love you for this one. Collector of all things side show😁

[@kimberlyshalaby1134]

I loved this place! The one seat reminded me of the whip, where you went around a oval track to the end & it whipped you around the end. Happy Thanksgiving to you & your family.

[@tictok9972]

Kimberly Shalaby Yes! I love the Whip! A simple thrill ride and there’s still a few out there. 👍❤️

[@juniormint1369]

When I saw the name Man O’ War, my heart strings got TUGGED 😭

[@spartanumismatics8165]

Marie O day is in a trailer in north Carolina. Mike and Frank saw her body in a place where they were picking

[@wigwiwvwjeg1246]

Thank you so much for going to the place I requested you to go

[@amandacolley8051]

Hey Jakob love this Channel Love seeing all the places you go Much Love from Tennessee🙏💖

[@michaelrubino2018]

I'm a Florida native myself and I'm not surprised that this is where the side show employees relaxed in the off season. Just another oddity under our belt.

[@babalon7778]

Walls of Dearh is my all time favorite circus act, I miss Ringling Bros!

[@raventhunderwings]

that walls of death was the one that traveled with the carnivals not ringling-- the pic he showed had my trainer Sam in it-- sadly she died when she was working on her harley at home when it fell on her

[@opens11]

Such an awesome place! I'd love to go here. Seeing the old carnival games, bet it was nice to actually win prizes and it not be so rigged.

[@JamesScott-lc8md]

Happy Thanksgiving to U and yours; thanks for sharing your videos

[@JenLovesBenz]

You have the best museum vlogs.

[@amyyoshikawa7698]

Hi Jacob awesome vlog at the showman museum. Gibsonton, Florida is a beautiful city👍🏻🎃

[@Robothut]

Wonderful place ! Thank you for sharing with us.

[@MinxLaura123]

Awesome channel! Hi from uk

[@pdxer8895]

One of your most awesome Vlogs. Thumbs up!

[@neilschmid4991]

Now that model carnival I would go to that one in an instant, it looks awesome.

[@wavzriley37]

Love your videos

[@toysvilltvstudios7576]

Looks like fun! and we LOVE Carnivals, Circuses and Sideshows! :D

[@nkracken2659]

Excellent video you should go to House on the Rock it’s the coolest museum it takes 2 days to go through

[@firedragonlit5728]

I just wish that Freakshows and carnival these days can still be alive like the ones that use to exist back that decades In Arizona cause I’m from there that’d be kinda cool.

[@adamdavenport1004]

my mother told me afew years ago that the original recipe of the moxie soda is completely different from the moxie soda recipe that is around now and I am glad that watched this video tonight

[@jackweatherford5125]

i love this guy

[@Desert_Ratt]

Man I really love your videos, not only are they entertaining but also educational.

[@charlesjanssens6770]

Greetings, this wos extra odenairy. Thenk you for suth a perfect documantairy.

[@malisahouser6378]

I have been here, it is a really awesome place 👍

[@CinnamonLaRoche]

Marie o day showed up on an episode of American pickers and I’ve seen a couple items in the video from the tv show might wanna check it out it’s about old carnival attractions and they actually find where Marie is

[@spartanumismatics8165]

Yep marie is in a trailer in north Carolina and yep it is a real body

[@cindythecatwoman1601]

My question is how do people go to the bathroom if they have no lower body? I guess Rosie Mae was saved by her noses. I love the Tilt a Will and, the scrambler. My two favorite rides.

[@tomklock568]

Wow fascinating place! Thanks for showing us the museum.

[@roddmatsui3554]

Pickled Punks! Some places used to sell rubber and wooden pickled punks, in dry bottles, just add liquid at home. I think those things are worth quite a bit now if you can find one.

[@charlottereed8060]

Hey, Jacob!! Love this video!! Lots of interesting stuff!!

[@jessicahrutkay8113]

Very cool and interesting video Jacob!

[@XxItalianVampPrinces]

I remember years ago at the county fair they had a tent set up that animal oddities and the Star was this huge horse and I do mean huge. Charged you $2 to go in to look at the live animals and while in the tent the horse farted and cleared the entire tent out. And that same year they had a trailer that had dead whales and sharks in it and those trailers smelled soooooooooo bad it was aweful.

[@tanyagarcia3721]

Americanpickers went to some dude's house that had all kinds of sideshow stuff and even Mary oday waa one of them that he had in his yard

[@cherylgood5110]

Thank-You so much, i really enjoyed this, a walk back in time.

[@misterblinkies9392]

i have to go there...thanks for showing it.

[@silverbatwing]

My first boyfriends grandmother was a motorcycle cage rider in a carnival.

[@johnrogers6291]

Good video Jacob, lots of interesting stuff.

[@wtfLARAMIE]

One of my new fave videos!!

[@coolnerd8730]

There is a book trader and curiosity shop near where I used to live. They had a huge taxidermy boar in the window.

[@viciouslady1340]

Finally I was actually going to suggest you visit there.

[@wigwiwvwjeg1246]

Do u live in FL?

[@toystorylover5257]

Wow, this place is so cool! Great video! I would like to go there someday. Those Freak Shows are so interesting. The real and the fake. The amusement park rides are so cool too. I'm surprised you can't ride them. I guess they would break if you went on them. But really cool place! Thanks for sharing!

[@bomberguy06]

Feels like people were more proud to be carnies or freaks and display their differences back then as opposed to people today.

[@TheCarpetbagger]

The performers never saw it as demeaning, the sideshow performers were the rock stars of the carnival and made the most money. It was outsiders who decided that it was “exploitive”

[@chasethompson9764]

Anyone else know of the show freak show... with Todd ray?? Great show!!

[@kbhasi]

Cool! As mesmerised as I am by the actual artefacts on display, I'm also mesmerised by all the hand-lettered signs, as I sometimes miss that style of graphic design despite never having any actual nostalgia for that! (but I've seen them in movies that take place in the past) (9:21) I never knew fiddlesticks were real!! (20:32) I bet there's a sign off-camera asking visitors to not actually use it as a bin because it's a display piece.

[@gaugesmith993]

Been here my whole life 💯

[@starchild1198]

So cool! One of my favorite places

[@Ease54]

I think the American Picker guys crossed paths with Marie O'Day at the farm of a collector in the upper mid west. She was toured by Capt. Harvey Lee Boswell for years.

[@robertcombs55]

Your site is Addictive my friend!

[@johnkimball5872]

I feel like I got a free admission to the sideshow thank you great video.

[@annatabor3712]

Ty so much for sharing ❤️

[@morningowlstudiosreborn5016]

i would do anything to get that minature carnival in my house lul

[@blakem9109]

Hopefully a trip to the nearby Showman's Rest Cemetery will be in an upcoming video.

[@diamondtim]

Would that be the one in Hugo, OK? There is also a showman rest in Illinois, just outside Chicago, where my grandfather is memorialized.

[@wendyderk1587]

Thank you Carpetbagger that was AMAZING 🤡 I remember our town carnival as one of the most amazing times of my life❤️It was put together on our school yard just above my house everyone went I was aloud to go 2 nites out of the week usually the 1st and last nites and my Dad would give me $7.00 $2 for games and $5 for rides and cotton candy it was great fun 🤗❤️ God Bless you 😇🙏😇 💕 for bringing that memory back to me Love ya your vids are the best👧🍭🌭🍟🎠🎡🎉🎈🦄🐠🐹

[@rosemary-bn2di]

Love this video ❤️

[@luckyraullopez]

REALLY COOL VIEWIING

[@mslaerik66]

very cool museum

[@ConductorCatnip]

I had a flashback to Christmas times at my grandparents house watching punch and Judy....the kicker?.....I'm 21 years old

[@petetrbovich7575]

Jake, the man who can look mummified two-headed freaks in the eye and not flinch: "Ew gross! Moxie!"

[@jcmilleker5449]

Dang Jacob, I would have assumed you a Moxie fan. Yum, we travel North once in awhile to stock up

[@alnardi335]

Hello Jacob: I was wondering when you would visit and video the Showman's Museum in Gibbtown. I was there about 5 years ago and it was still being worked on. They have added a lot since my visit. The carnival banners are great works of art. This has to be one of the top roadside attractions in USA. Big fan of the Curious Cruising Carpetbagger. Thanks

[@eddunaway6325]

Cool video Jacob very interesting museum

[@andreameyers9435]

FYI some of those pieces are at Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky, Ohio!!!!! And yes I’m from Ohio and yes I love being there, too!!!!!!

[@tattooedstranger]

I remember some of this stuff I feel old