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"I was a working kid, always finding a job and playing 'Hookey' from school a lot of the time. Exhibition time was my busiest, I would carry the Norwood Citizen's Band instrument cases for free rides on the streetcars, then free admittance to the fairgrounds. Then I would find a job usually selling hamburgers, soda drinks and ice cream and cake on the grandstands. We were paid ten percent of our gross receipts, doing what we called 'hustling on the grandstands'. I also took tickets at the 'Big Snake' sideshows. In those days there were no rides; carnivals consisted of shows and games. Circuses were spectacles, trapeze artists, animals, clowns, and always a big free street parade."