Deceased Carnival Performer Bruce"Harold Huge" Snowdon Grave Rubbing for Sale

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Deceased Carnival Performer Bruce"Harold Huge" Snowdon Grave Rubbing For Sale

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Deceased Carnival Performer Bruce"Harold Huge" Snowdon Grave Rubbing:
$45.00

I did this grave rubbing myself in person!!

Harold’s real name was Bruce Snowdon. He had degrees in paleontology, anthropology and chemistry. In 1977, he found himself bored with his work and stumbled across the idea of being a Fat Man:

Bruce once said

I had put on a lot of weight between the time I was 20 and 25. I was up to about 450 in those days. I went to the local library, and I was poking through some old circus books and I see this one picture about a sideshow, maybe circa 1905, and I’m looking at this fat man and I’m saying to myself, “He can’t weigh more than 350 pounds.Now, I ask myself, how the hell would I go about getting into a sideshow? I’d never even seen a sideshow in my lifetime. In the late ’70s the industry was a very pale ghost of its former self. Instead of thousands, there were maybe dozens left then. So I figured, logically, there’s got to be some sort of trade journal for the carnival industry. It’s Amusement Business. And I’m looking through the AB. Taking a lucky stab, I wrote the editor, Tom Powell. And Tom Powell happens to be a very good friend of Ward Hall. Bingo. I had the job.

I don’t mind being enormously fat… I come from a long line of fat people. My old man tortured himself for 40 years going from 200 to 300 [pounds] and back again. He eventually lost the weight, but he also lost his mind.

Snowdon played Harold Huge for 26 years. The year of his retirement, in 2003, he played himself in the movie, Big Fish:

Nov. 9th 2009, Harold Huge, a man billed as the very last sideshow fat man, died. He weighed 607 pounds or so