Word: 70s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play did well before the Civil War, but its unparalleled popularity really began afterwards, when its propaganda value was gone and the monkeyshines started. In the '70s and '80s barnstorming troupes (known ever after as Tom Shows) went to every tank town in the U. S., to places where even the circus never went, playing in tents, in showboats, in rooms over warehouses...