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AMC’s Freakshow Goes To Gibtown! (Gibsonton, FL)

Posted on May 22, 2014 by qmbridges

I’m jealous that “Freakshow” went to Gibtown. I wish I could have lived in Gibsonton, Florida in the 1940s and ’50s.  Half girl Jeannie Tomani and her giant husband Al ran the Giant’s Fishing Camp, which was a trailer park … Continue reading →

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Freakshow on AMC- Tattoos and The Shock Of A Lifetime

Posted on May 14, 2014 by qmbridges

A Jersey City tattoo artist put Coney Island’s Luna Park on my left bicep a number of years ago.  Before that, I let a hairy man with jewelry stuck all over his bare chest stick a big needle through my … Continue reading →

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No More Normal, AMC’s Freakshow, Episode 8

Posted on April 5, 2013 by qmbridges

Episode 8 of AMC’s reality series Freakshow, which follows the fortunes of Todd Ray’s Venice Beach Freakshow, had an air of finality to it. The show celebrates the differences that make us all unique and showcases performers and people who … Continue reading →

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Strongmen AMC’s Freakshow, Episode 6

Posted on March 22, 2013 by qmbridges

Sideshows and freakshows will never see the classic strongmen acts, again.  Men wearing leopard skins, lifting cartoony dumbells with 500s painted on either side, would make modern audiences laugh.  Plus, nobody would pay to see someone who is simply strong … Continue reading →

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AMC’s FREAKSHOW Episode 4 Goes All Pins And Needles

Posted on March 8, 2013 by qmbridges

When I was a kid, my very sweet, very gentle, very deadly karate instructor would shove a thick wire through his arm and hang buckets of water from either side of it.  I don’t think everybody grows up with the … Continue reading →

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Freakshow, Episode 2- Sword Swallowers

Posted on February 22, 2013 by qmbridges

Todd Ray is concerned when he catches his twenty year old daughter, Asia, jamming a wire clothes hanger down her throat in the bathroom…but he’s not upset enough to stop her.  Todd Ray runs the Venice Beach Freakshow, so Asia … Continue reading →

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