on a fair 100 years ago, dominated the various spectacles, the rides were in contrast to today less frequently. In the 19th
Century increased the knowledge and thus the interests of broad layers at the world outside their own area of experience. The attractions offered many possibilities of what people knew only from hearsay or from magazines and books to see with my own eyes. There was also a naive curiosity the exotic, the extraordinary and sensational. Not to be neglected after all, the erotic component. Many acts offered for its time very far-reaching insights, such as the popular tattooed ladies.
Given the variety of stalls, it is not surprising that the town crier or rush hour were the highest paid artists in the show often. In fact, it was a real art to awaken the interest of the first people strolling past and then to move to making their arduous earned pennies at the register.
The real "shindig" was so often before striking during the parade on a platform of painted facade instead. At this event the rush hour before the thrills and wonders of the world, while samples of the participants showed their skills: "There does need ma net neigeh, making out in front of his booth mehra Gaudi as wia drinna, chic di, that very front hikemma ma ..." (Karl Valentin)
Century increased the knowledge and thus the interests of broad layers at the world outside their own area of experience. The attractions offered many possibilities of what people knew only from hearsay or from magazines and books to see with my own eyes. There was also a naive curiosity the exotic, the extraordinary and sensational. Not to be neglected after all, the erotic component. Many acts offered for its time very far-reaching insights, such as the popular tattooed ladies.
Given the variety of stalls, it is not surprising that the town crier or rush hour were the highest paid artists in the show often. In fact, it was a real art to awaken the interest of the first people strolling past and then to move to making their arduous earned pennies at the register.
The real "shindig" was so often before striking during the parade on a platform of painted facade instead. At this event the rush hour before the thrills and wonders of the world, while samples of the participants showed their skills: "There does need ma net neigeh, making out in front of his booth mehra Gaudi as wia drinna, chic di, that very front hikemma ma ..." (Karl Valentin)
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(c) 2007 Stefan Nagel
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