Unusual Photos.

Dwarf brothers Waino and Plutanor were known as the Wild Men of Borneo​

 

Charles Stratton in a promotional still for 1932 film Freaks​

 

An albino lady poses with a colourful parrot to further emphasise her skin condition​

 

Microcephaly is a pre-natal condition that means a baby's head and brain does not grow properly​

 

Cruel parents would sell or give their disabled babies to the freak shows so that they wouldn't be a burden to them
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Conjoined twins were a regular feature at the human circuses​

 

A scene from 1932 film Freaks shows the variety of people exhibited for entertainment​

 

Krao Farini was an hirsute, flexibly jointed woman found in the Laotian jungle in 1885 and cruelly exhibited as 'the missing link'
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A giant strong man warms up in a still from 1932 film Freaks​

 

A man poses in leggings and a vest in a promotional photo taken for a human circus​

 

Tall people were a popular draw at the freak show

Tall people were a popular draw at the freak show​

 

The original version of Freaks was considered too obscene for audiences and destroyed. but an edited version is still in existence​

 

The plot paints the 'freaks' as the honourable members of the circus, and shows an able-bodied colleague plotting to murder one of them for a large sum of cash​

 

People using their feet as hands were a popular act​

 

This picture shows Mr John Lester, owner of The Midget Show being handed a petition by his employees denying they are 'freaks'​

 

Does this grant rights?

 

Pele playing the guitar during the World Cup in 1970

 

Bruce Springsteen and Michael Jackson

 

My former neighbor where I used to live , went to school with Bruce and he even signed her High School yearbook. It was a nice comment that he made to her. I have seen it a few times over the years and she is rather proud of it. Just goes to show how small the world can be sometimes.

 

Just another summer day on the Boardwalk...........