GIBSONTON - What Remains Of The Circus Sideshow Town ?
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welcome everyone I'm in Gibsonton
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Florida judging by the sign you'll see
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right here the old Gibsonton Highway
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which has now been overshadowed by the
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interstate lies right over
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there I'm going to take you inside what
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used to be a circus hotbed circus freaks
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if you can even use that word anymore a
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lot of them over the years have died off
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and are now buried at the cemetery which
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I'm also going to show you some of the
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Town folk will tell you there's nothing
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left of the former past history of
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Gibsonton
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but I wanted to find out for myself so
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let's go check out the wonderful world
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of Gibsonton Florida join me shall
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this is the Showtown Bar directly behind
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me in the past it was a veritable hot
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Bed full of circus folk and it still
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might be maybe we should go take a look
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inside and see what lies through those
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doors there goes
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a museum anywhere in town or like a uh
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information center yeah y right here on
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the road cross the bridge which is the
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lfi river okay going north cross the
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bridge first right less than A4 of a
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mile the Showman's PL Showman's
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unfortunately the museum was closed I
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had to get these shots through the
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window that is awesome all rusted out
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like
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are you guys actively working now
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or okay uh
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half actually the other half of us is
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down in Miami
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okay so like all the stuff is still
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being actively
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used uh yeah but but after the 17th
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everything is coming back here okay I
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gotta area here
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feels this all all kinds of carnivals
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really yeah any real old timey broken
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down rides that I can take pictures
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let
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that was a tall guy look how tall I am
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compared to how tall he was that was his
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actual actual height and that's the size
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of his foot right there that is the size
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of his
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difference right outside Tampa is the
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showman Cemetery you can see the mural
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behind me buried in this region of the
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cemetery are a lot of the folks who used
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to live in Gibsonton they're buried
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here quite a few circus performers are
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buried out here including who you might
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know as the human
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Cannonball right
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here
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one of the most famous Gibsonton
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residents was Grady Styles AKA Lobster
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Boy his death was full of controversy
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and also controversial is where he was
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buried some say it was at this Cemetery
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let's see if we can find his
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grave unfortunately after searching all
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around there's no sign of where the
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grave could possibly be maybe you know