RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT
The Odditorium
The Odditorium featured performers billed as "The Penguin Girl" or "The Dolphin Boy" due to physical deformities. Other performers had unusual abilities. Rasmus Nielsen lifted a fifty-pound anvil by means of holes pierced in his chest. Albert Sayeh, billed as "The Anatomical Wonder," could displace the bones and muscles in his body.
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Marvello who had only stubs for fingers, could play 500 classical and popular songs on the piano. Clarence Thorpe would draw two pictures at once - one with his hand, and one with his foot.
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Wish You Were Here! Postcards from the Golden Gate International Exposition is presented by the
Treasure Island Museum.
The Great Gravityo was known as the man of 1,000 thrills. R.H. Hubbard drove 8-inch spikes into his head.
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Ripley's
Believe It or Not
Sally Rand's
Nude Ranch
America! Cavalcade
of a Nation
And
More...
Wish You Were Here
Paul McWilliams' claim to fame was that he could stuff four golf balls in his mouth and play music on his throat with wooden spoons.
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Edna Price swallowed glass neon tubes, while Zorita Lambert ate electric light bulbs.
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