Homer Tate Style, Alien Real Carnival Gaff

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Homer Tate Style Carnival Gaff.
Alien Monster
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Everybody loves the American carnival and sideshow as much as We do.
As a child, I was More intrigued with the Carnival Sideshows than I was with the Rides...
oh don't get me wrong, I Loved all the Rides and had to ride everyone they would let me ride.
But first I had to see all the Sideshows, with my Dad of Corse, all the Strange Things you saw made me Imagine all sort of things
My Dad always told me they were Fake but, something's looked so Real it made me wonder, if he was just saying this to keep me from having bad dreams, Which I never had.
My Dreams were filled with adventure and Mystery
I later learned about Homer Tate... and I wanted to be just like him
Now...
Homer Tate (September 7, 1884 – February 21, 1975 was an American nicknamed the "King of Gaffes" for devising strange "artifacts" that were often used in roadside attractions and sideshows to fool and amuse the public. Among his best known works is The Thing. Tate was born in Poetry, Texas, and moved to Arizona in the 1890s and/or to Gila Valley, Arizona, around 1915. He was a miner and a farmer and also operated a motel and gas station. Tate was elected sheriff of Graham County, serving from 1925 to 1928.In the late 1930s or '40s, he began to make artifacts from mud, paper and bones, which he sold for small sums. They were passed off by the purchasers as mummies (such as The Thing), mermaids and shrunken heads. Some of his items were purchased by Mike Wolfe in an episode of the television series American Pickers
You don't see these carnival gaff's very often up for sale.
Few have heard of Homer Tate, if you weren't in the business, who from the 1940s to the 1960s crafted mummies, man-animal hybrids and more, selling them to sideshows and carnivals.
But if his name means nothing, you likely know of his desiccated masterpiece, a feat memorialized on bright-yellow billboards on Interstate 10 from Tucson to the New Mexico border —
The Thing
.
Born in 1884 in Texas, Tate found a talent for working in papier-mâché, later plying his trade in Arizona.
He became the pre-eminent creator of oddities designed to lure drivers off the highway and into the roadside stands that thrived along the fresh, endless pavement.
While his works — made more provocative by his inclusion of bones, animal hides and human hair — befuddled viewers and frustrated the devout members of his family, the shrunken heads, devil babies and wolf boys rarely were appreciated beyond those who charged a dime to see them.
But just as folk art slowly ascended a ladder of appreciation, Tate’s creations are continuing to find a new appreciation respectability in a category all their own — primitive art.
While many people crafted oddities, Tate was one of the few who lifted it to an art form.
Tate established himself as the go-to guy when someone needed a gaff (carnival slang for a trick or con),
A quality gaff could and can  pay for itself within a few months.
And...
by using their Ideas and maybe start your own Sideshow.
Even if just for your Man Cave or Halloween Party or your Haunted House/Display
You don’t see these often and usually when you do, they’re in Real bad shape,”
This one is in very good condition, with Very few flaws
You could easily set up your side show in a tent at a fair or just a Flee Market, Garage sale, or what ever
and charge a small amount to see it.
A friend of mine used this Idea and was able to make up to ,000 in just 7 day's by charging just -5.00
per person... at big event in and Around his town.
think about it, only labor you have is setting up your tent and display and taking it down after. you could add things to your display every year and build you a great business.
Look up "The Thing" on interstate I-10,
He started with one of Homer
Tate's
Creations and Turned it in to a Multi
Million
dollar Business, and you could too...