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| Author: | Matt Bumgarner [ Mon Dec 17, 2012 5:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Freak shows and the Enfinger-Whale show |
I received an unusual inquiry today from a gentleman who asked if I knew anything locally about a railroad traveling exhibit wheret folks paid a fee and then viewed a preserved whale in a specially-built rail car! This would have been the 1935-1943 era.... All I could find on-line was a reference to the Enfinger-Whale show at http://www.sideshowworld.com/13-TGOD/MV ... imi-G.html Does anybody out there have any information (however basic) on this unusual sideshow? Any idea who designed and what happened to the rail car? Thanks! Matt Bumgarner |
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| Author: | bigjim4life [ Mon Dec 17, 2012 7:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Freak shows and the Enfinger-Whale show |
Is this it? http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/thompson-ss/ |
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| Author: | Matt Bumgarner [ Mon Dec 17, 2012 8:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Freak shows and the Enfinger-Whale show |
I don't think so... I talked to one of the older members of our chapter who was a boy at the time. He remembers something like a gondola parked on a siding and people walked on a catwalk around the railcar and looked down into the tank... He was small at the time and doesn't remember anything beyond this. Thanks! Matt Bumgarner |
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| Author: | Sully [ Mon Dec 17, 2012 9:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Freak shows and the Enfinger-Whale show |
I did some serious Googling and found a few more leads for you... it appears to have been very common - http://www.sideshowworld.com/s/snlp/snl ... 006-4.html http://www.sideshowworld.com/13-TGOD/20 ... -Irvy.html http://books.google.com/books?id=AR4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA48&lpg=PA48&dq=Pacific+Whaling+Co+rail&source=bl&ots=RRYYUhMlOi&sig=3ypdqPQM8G3ms8PNpTocfsV4taE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=VsnPUNuWEKOW0QHRzID4Dw&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Pacific%20Whaling%20Co%20rail&f=true Regards, Sully |
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