{"id":10857,"date":"2013-02-05T03:22:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T11:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=10857"},"modified":"2013-02-05T18:53:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T02:53:07","slug":"stocks-big-fun-show-tonic-once-an-american-sensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/stocks-big-fun-show-tonic-once-an-american-sensation\/","title":{"rendered":"Stock&#8217;s Big Fun Show &#038; Tonic&#8211;Once An American Sensation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/fredtent.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By C. MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>Before TV, thousands of Americans eagerly awaited the legendary Stock&#8217;s Big Fun Show that arrived by truck and played in their towns for 5 days to 12 weeks between 1926-1942.<\/p>\n<p>The exciting 15-person Minstrel and Vaudeville Show, complete with band, played outdoors to standing room only crowds. Comedians, gymnasts, magicians, ventriloquists, stilt walkers, singers and dancers made for quite a spectacle at the FREE nightly productions, which lasted anywhere from 90 to 120 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Show Creators\/Producers Freddie and Etchie Stock of Quincy, Ill&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/history\/stock-big-fun-show.html\">read more<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By C. MacDonald Before TV, thousands of Americans eagerly awaited the legendary Stock&#8217;s Big Fun Show that arrived by truck and played in their towns for 5 days to 12 weeks between 1926-1942. The exciting 15-person Minstrel and Vaudeville Show, complete with band, played outdoors to standing room only crowds. Comedians, gymnasts, magicians, ventriloquists, stilt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10857"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}