Word: odditorium
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Julius Richard ("Dixie") Davis and Bride Hope Dare were invited to appear as sideshow freaks in Believe-It-Or-Not Ripley's Odditorium in Manhattan and at a New York World's Fair concession...
Public tastes changed as the seasons changed. The notorious "Streets of Paris" which drew the biggest crowd at first, later played second fiddle to the Belgian Village, although it made better profits for the entire period. Only "Wings of a Century" and Ripley's "Believe It Or Not" Odditorium were able to maintain a 40? admission charge. Exclusive of admissions, average expenditure per visitor...
...visitor should have had his fill of the charming Belgian Village, the educational Gorilla Village, the miniscule Midget Village, complete with midget jail, midget court house, midget barber shop. He will have been sufficiently aghast at the monstrosities in C. C. Pyle's and Robert Ripley's "Odditorium," sufficiently thrilled by the dizzying Sky Ride. He will have banged his bones on the breath-taking Cyclone Safety Coaster and the Flying Turns, a toboggan which makes its twists through semicylindrical tunnels. He surely will have wearied his feet after viewing the Pantheon of the War and the similar...