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Monday, July 30, 2007
Weird 1940s tourist attraction ad: "The Midget Palace"
Anonymous reader says,
This is a brochure for an offbeat tourist attraction from the 1940's called "The Midgets Palace". It was owned by the "King and Queen of All Midgets" who had the "only child born to midgets". Incredibly politically incorrect.Link. By posting this, I do not intend to imply that it is okay to make fun of short-statured people. But it's interesting to look back at what was considered appropriate in years past.
Update: The Midget Palace is now a bathhouse for gay men? Link to section of website promoting giant crotches and hourly sauna rates for men only, at the same address where the Midget Palace once stood. Wow. (thanks, marc pageau)
Ed Deasy says,
I was surprised to see an article on the Museum in Montreal. I took photographs there about 20 years ago, when visiting the City. The most interesting item: the brochure linked to from your article mentioned the birth of their Son. It was thought he might be of even smaller stature than the parents at the time the brochure was published. Not so. He was normal. This must have been a somewhat disorienting experience for the parents. I've got a close-up of a photograph with his father that was in his room at the Museum. Link to the photograph.
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