I’ve made a Ballyhoo playlist of songs that were on the charts at the beginning of the story.
It helps get me in the mood. How ’bout you?
1955 Playlist
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Hi everyone, David here. To keep things simple/ organized I’ll be posting in this nice dark blue color.
Ballyhoo has such a great amount of interesting visuals built into the story by virtue of it’s time period, it’s location and the characters. It’s mostly set in the fifties at the circus, and the lead characters are “freaks”.
The thing about doing a period piece is that I can’t just do research on the circus and call it a day.
As I was looking for some general 1950’s things I came across this sweet picture from the Milwaukee Public Library. A classic Bookmobile with a bunch of excited kids ready to check out some books. The same kids who, with a change of setting, would be just as (if not more) excited about a day at the Collins Bros. Circus.
Date: 1956- Courtesy of MPL
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