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When my dad worked for the now defunct Muller's Bar and Grill, he took us to the circus at Madison Sq Garden, the old Garden. I was around 8 years old. Since Muller's was across the street, my dad knew people who worked at the Garden and they let us take a walk behind the Big Tent before the "greatest show on earth" started.
It's one of those indelible things that's burned in my memory. Everyone was warming up and getting ready. There were animals and performers everywhere but what really stuck in my memory was walking past the so-called freak show performers, The Bearded Lady, The World's Tallest Man, and of course, the little people. It was really something. I had never seen anything like it and I was amazed. The circus show itself was magnificent.
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