Thursday, January 14, 2010

Side Show Bally! #4

Posted by Buckles at 1/14/2010 05:57:00 AM

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

The image is from the "studio" of Dr. B. J. Palmer, otherwise known for his rescue and preservation of the 1903 B&B Two Hemispheres Bandwagon. His Palmer School of Chiropractic still carries on in Davenport, Iowa, turning out dozens and dozens of bone manipulators. He's the fellow that published the booklet about the Two Hemispheres, the one rife with errors, like it rolled through Europe.

The odd position of the swallower's ears, due to the head being tilted back, suggests that this may be an actual X-ray type view, and not ont that's gaffed. A faker might not have known the requisite head position. Perhaps a bonafide sword swallower can verify this is indeed an actual view?

15 January, 2010 10:50
Anonymous said...

Kind of remnds me of the neon tubes that they used to swallow.
That left no questions in the audiences mind that it was a fake.
Bob Kitto

15 January, 2010 19:27
Chic Silber said...

Those were fluorescent tubes Bob

which could be lit from one end

with an RF signal

15 January, 2010 22:19
Anonymous said...

Chic,
I don't remember any flourescent tubes back in the mid 40's. Also, they were colored and I don't think they had pliable colored plastic wrap back then. Of course, I might be wrong as I'm getting forgetful after so many years.
Bob Kitto

16 January, 2010 19:03
Chic Silber said...

Fluorescent tubes did go back

that far but if the ones you

mention were of colored glass

then they could well have been

neon tubing but could not have

been lit from one end nor with

an RF signal

16 January, 2010 19:43
Brian Liddicoat said...

It appears the neon tubes were actually a single tube which was bent into narrow "u" shape. At least this is what I can recall having seen a few.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFZmitBjAgg

17 January, 2010 12:19

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