I SO Want To Express MYSELF At The Carnivals!

1937 Tilt-a-Wheel

Gentle Readers?

"I SO Want To Express Myself At The Carnivals"!

Don't you simply just reach Dizzying Heights

thinking about the pleasures of
good old fashioned American

Carnivals, Fairs, Church Socials, Cake Walks

and Cat Walks?

(Well, maybe not actually cat walks, but it could happen, pon my words!)

As promised in "yon early on" Blog...

We're pulling the brakes on this now FULL ON and IN progress

1947 All American Woodie Road Trip!

Mind you now, we're aborting our post on the road temporarily, momentarily...all with the good intentions of

enthusing fun, thrills, chills, delight

AND American history into the hearts of everyone...my goodness... everywhere!

Well, first...my stars, let's do start with my passion (fey who knew?)...the carnival!

Primarily and substantially speaking as tho I know for positively sure,

the carnival is an outdoor show!  A traveling outdoor amusement show is a more apt description, with dizzying rides, sideshows, sticky cotton candy, burnished red candy apples, pink and blue cotton candy, snow cones, pop corn,

AND fey?!  Do I actually

sniff delightful french fries and kraut covered hot dogs?

Now, then your next question shall be

"What's a Fair?"

Well, I too happen to have the dittos, dots and details on

this answer! Step aside whilst I fill in the blanks with

anecs and anecdotes!

A Fair is also an outdoor show: an outdoor amusement show with rides and sideshows

but Gentle Readers? Let's add in to this mix an exhibition, usually competitive, of farm products, livestock, baked goods, jams and jellies, stitchery and

allllllll imaginable!  Like carnivals fairs are held annually but unlike carnivals, fairs may be a

County, or a whole entire State Fair!

I DO SO WANT A COMPETIVITE BLUE RIBBON (and not  the Butter sort)
In fact?!
I shall bet my giant pumpkin a win against your cruel cold cucumber!

"What's a Permanent Carnival or Fair Called"?

I most deliciously think a good fit to that question would be an amusement park or theme park!   Terms for a group of rides and other entertainment attractions assembled for the purpose of entertaining a large group of people generally in a fixed position! 

An amusement park is more elaborate than a simple city park or playground, usually providing attractions meant to cater to children, teenagers, and adults.

The Great Depression of the 1930s and World War II, during the 1940s, saw the decline of the amusement park industry, sniffles.

But, let's discover a mecca by day and a glamourous funland by night?

And a lovely example of an amusement park many of our grandparents

may have rememberd!

Coney Island! "Where Merriment is King (or Keen)!"

Here, Gentle Reading Dahlinks? Watch and listen to 1940s

history of this particular amusement?

A little note of memories...Coney Island is no more.

Alright now, so we've covered everything here but

the Worlds Fair and Socials. I regret to inform you that, socials will have

to simply wait stalwart alongside the World!

What I dearly would like to answer is
"What is a Cake Walk"?

Life, Sillies!

Actually...A Cake Walk is a bit of 'wicked good' fun enjoyed at socials (that word again), carnivals, fairs, and fundraising events. It is similar to a raffle and musical chairs. Example: Numbered squares are gently laid out on a path. Tickets are sold to lucky participants, with the number of squares in the path equal to the maximum number of tickets sold. The lucky participants walk around the path in time to lovely music, which plays for an unspecified duration and then stops! Why who KNEW? A number is then called out shrilly, and the person standing on the square with that number wins a contributed/donated CAKE as a prize (hence the name Cake Walk).

The Cake Walk has been a sublime and wonderful event

in our American History. Really and truly. Many

necessary funds have been raised all

due to the Cake Walk. Did I mention FUN?

Someone invented it somewhere, but

to tell the truth? It doesn't matter now does it? Really, in the end?

Let's just enjoy!

And, so...Gentle Readers? I'm glancing back AND ONLY BRIEFLY

to ask this? How DOES a carnival or any

delightfully absorbing show from Fair to Carnival

actually "travel"?

We'd like to show you one fine establishment

of perhaps an endless listing that

offers traveling carnival and fair delights!

Strates Show

All the above said?

Jolene Bungalow Gal can most certainly see herself scaling the graceful

heights in her flying trapeze AND Ferris Wheel. Say, what's that you say?

I may ride the caramel camel and sit tall atop the Flying Horse of

the Carousel? Go ON! Really?

May I swirl upon the 1937 Tilt-A-Whirl?

May I (I ask most respectfully and beguiling) stay the night

beneath the strings of the garish carnival lights?

Be still my foolish American singing heart!

ALL TOO SOON GENTLE READERS?
  'TIS UTTERLY TIME TO LEAVE
THESE HALLOWED FAIR GROUNDS
AND RETURN TO
OUR '47 WOODIE WAGON!
THERE'S SIMPLY MILES
UPON MILES TO TRAVEL!

Hubba, Hubba
Dahlinks!