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nevermind - google is my friend - it's Gibsonton - I don't even know where that is.
"Step Right Up. . .Lobster Boy Slept Here--If you're looking for a true attraction, not of the animatronic, electronic, or supersonic ilk, deviate off the beaten path from Tampa and head straight to the little seaside town of Gibsonton. Best known as "Freaktown, USA," this town of 7,000 residents boasts the country's largest concentration of carnies (people who make their livings by working in traveling circuses and sideshows). Today, these people, once proudly known as "professional freaks," primarily work as ticket takers, clowns, acrobats, and animal trainers, but over fifty years ago, some of them were better known as "The Bearded Lady," "The Blockhead," "The Hermaphrodite," and "The Three Legged Man." At one point in this colorful town's history, the police chief was an 8-foot, 4-inch giant while the fire chief was a dwarf. Gibsonton is also where Lobster Boy (the frequent Jerry Springer Show guest who was born with a genetic condition that caused his fingers and toes to fuse into two digit claws) called home. Surprisingly, the town wasn't very pleased with his penchant for self-exploitation and appearing on trash television. Although the sideshow stars are, for the most part, gone from Gibsonton (thanks to advanced depilatory techniques, the Bearded Lady is now clean shaven), if you're lucky you may stumble upon a bona fide barker who'll invite you to step right up to his mobile home so he can regale you with tales of the sideshow days of yore."
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