
"If Paris is France, then Coney Island ... is the
world." -- George C. Tilyou, 1886.
Coney Island:
Performers &
Attractions
Dreamland Circus Sideshow
A List of Performers & Attractions:
~ Ajax "King of Swords"
~ Artie Atherton "The Skeleton Dude"
~ Baron Paucci
~ Cleve Gil "The Doll Lady"
~ Eddie Masher
~ King C. Roy, Albino
~ Lillian "Airy Fairy", Albino
~ Lionel "Lion-Faced Man"
~ Marie DeVere "Lady Sword Swallower"
~ Princess Wee-Wee
~ The Gondins "Smallest Married Couple"
~ Elizabeth "The Living Doll" "The Human Musical Doll"
~ Gretel "30 Inches Tall"
~ Lady Little "The Doll Lady"
~ Jack Wilson "Fat Man"
World Circus Sideshow
A List of Performers & Attractions:
~ Shadow Harry (1929)
~ Frank Graf "The Tattooed Man"
~ Zinida Zan (1929)
~ Gus Birch "The First Lung Tester on Coney Island" (1929)
Hubert's Museum Boardwalk
Eden Musee Wax Museum
Gumpertz, Samuel
Sideshows By The Seashore
George Tilyou's Steeplechase Park |

Paper Badge from George
Tilyou's Steeplechase, dated 1924. |
[blk] Bernard
L. Kobel Catalogue
[dpm]
Daniel P. Mannix
[d] doghouse
[rb] Robert
Bogdan
[rj]
Ricky Jay
[kkk] Kunhardt
[mm]
Martin Monestier
Multi-talented, appears in more than one category.
Appeared
in Robert Ripley museum or cartoon.
Full
article needed and/or forthcoming. |
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