3001773A - PREMIER MADISON HEAVYWEIGHT STRATES SHOWS BLUE TRAIN 4 CAR SET
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3001773A - PREMIER MADISON HEAVYWEIGHT STRATES SHOWS BLUE TRAIN 4 CAR SET

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  For more information regarding the Strates Shows, please visit www.stratescarnivalcompany.com One of the most iconic pieces of Americana dating from the late 19th and 20th centuries is the traveling Carnival Show. Arriving in a town with a stream of brightly colored wagons and trucks, the traveling shows featured a menagerie of exotic animals, exciting rides, unique acts and performances and large Midways with games of skill (chance) and concessions that most small towns had never seen. These shows (following an arrival of an advanced advertising and marketing team) set up tents and booths in local fields and would stay on average a week in one location, then move on to another town from Spring to Fall, returning to a “winter quarters” where the circuit for the next year would be planned and new attractions would be created. In 1932, the newly-renamed James E. Strates Shows (originally founded as Southern Tier Shows in Elmira, NY in 1923) rented two railroad boxcars to help move the

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