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Up for the Fourth: 1941
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 01/16/2008 - 1:28am.
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July 1941. Girls at the Fourth of July carnival in Vale, Oregon. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.
Carnival Canes
Submitted by Mattie on Wed, 01/16/2008 - 11:39pm.
Here's what an Antiques Roadshow appraiser says about them:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/archive/200502A30.html
Carnie Canes
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Wed, 01/16/2008 - 3:04pm.
What was their point? To grab the brass ring?
Kewpie Doll
Submitted by SteveB on Wed, 01/16/2008 - 2:48pm.
In her other hand she appears to be holding a kewpie doll sort of like this 1930'2 carnival prize on
That's IT!
Submitted by Mattie on Wed, 01/16/2008 - 11:10am.
That's my bulldog carnival cane, right there. It looks like a cat from the back but it's a dog. Now I know how old mine is!
Carnival Cane!
Submitted by DTNelson on Wed, 01/16/2008 - 2:55am.
I have not seen one of those carnival-prize canes in over forty years. Oh, how we wanted to win them; oh, how useless they were.
[I wondered what that was! Below, a closeup of the prizes. - Dave]
Carnival Cane?
Submitted by Mattie on Wed, 01/16/2008 - 2:51am.
It looks like the dark-haired woman is holding some wooden carnival canes. I have one with a ceramic dog head at the top that looks similar to the one she's holding, but it's hard to see the details. They just don't make carnival prizes like they used to!
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