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A sideshow in San Jose, 2021.. A sideshow (so-called in the San Francisco Bay Area, and a street takeover in the Los Angeles area [1] [2]) is an informal and often illegal demonstration of automotive stunts now often held in vacant lots, and public intersections, originally seen in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, United States.
Sideshows were reported in three Bay Area cities on Saturday night including Oakland, Vallejo and San Francisco.
In the 1950s, there was one gigantic train system comprising three separate train loads that brought the main show to the big cities. The first train load consisted of 22 cars and had the tents and the workers to set them up. The second section comprised 28 cars and carried the canvasmen, ushers and sideshow workers.
It is the oldest carnival sideshow organization in America and is currently owned and run by Thomas Breen. [6] In 1970, John Strong Jr (son of John Strong of The John Strong 3 Ring Tented Circus) [7] began a 47-year continuous run of traveling sideshow, The Strong Sideshow. Several acts and artifacts toured over the years such as the 5-legged ...
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One of the marches to the Port of Oakland on November 2, 2011. The following is a timeline of Occupy Oakland (sometimes called OO or #OO) which began on Monday, October 10, 2011, as an occupation of Frank H. Ogawa Plaza located in front of Oakland City Hall in downtown Oakland, and is an ongoing demonstration.
The term hyphy (/ ˈ h aɪ f iː / HY-fee) is an Oakland, California slang meaning "hyperactive". [1] More specifically, it is an adjective describing the hip hop music [1] [2] and the culture associated with the Oakland area. [3] The term was first coined by Oakland rapper Keak da Sneak. [1] [3]
In the 1993 Beavis and Butt-Head episode "At the Sideshow", Beavis and Butt-Head go to a carnival, run afoul of the staff, and are forced to join the sideshow as Siamese twin chicken geeks. In the 1995 X-Files episode "Humbug", real-life sideshow performer The Enigma portrays a mostly-mute geek named "The Conundrum." True to the classical view ...