Bingo Hauser: Trading Fur for Iron Bingo Hauser: Trading Fur for Iron North American Carnival Museum and Archives
Both Bingo and Jackie shared the responsibility of looking after all the animals.
Jackie the lion was born in 1951, one of the first lions obtained by the Hausers after Simba.
Bingo had a black bear named Blackie as part of his animal show.
West Coast Amusements started with the classic rides like the Ferris wheel and carousel, and then added more thrill rides like the Loop-O-Plane and the Scrambler.
Bingo is at the head of the snake to left of the photo and next to him is Billy Captain. Snakes were a big part of Bingo’s animal show, […]
This is an example of a bannerline created for Bingo’s animal show. Bingo and Jackie later built a much larger one as their show grew.
See early carousel belonging to West Coast Amusements, the start of what eventually would be the largest carnival midway in Western Canada.
A Loop-O-Plane ride set up at a West Coast Amusements carnival.
The cat rack (also referred to as a punk rack) is a very old and typical carnival game which still exists at many modern carnivals.
“He had ‘Pick Till You Win’, was his favourite, and then he just expanded to the milk bottle, the cat rack. He had a partner, his best buddy […]
“This is kind of a peculiar story, but one of the big snakes that dad got arrived dead. What are you going to do? You got to put […]
“One of the monkeys got loose at one of the fairs and ended up underneath someone’s car hood and they drove to the next town quite a ways, […]
