Circus Sideshow Pip and Flip aka Jenny Lee Snow and Elvira Snow 20210222
by Wingsdomain Art and Photography
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Circus Sideshow Pip and Flip aka Jenny Lee Snow and Elvira Snow 20210222
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Wingsdomain Art and Photography
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Circus Sideshow Pip and Flip aka Jenny Lee Snow and Elvira Snow 20210222
Usually promoted professionally as Pip and Flip, Jenny Lee Snow and Elvira Snow were billed as Pip and Zip in Freaks. The new monikers were perhaps an attempt to establish a connection to another famous pinhead named Zip - a human oddity who was enormously popular in his day and had recently passed. The sisters were often billed as hailing ‘from the Yucatan’ but were actually from Hartwell, Georgia and their parents basically ‘loaned’ the siblings to various shows in order to support their family. While their birthdates are debatable, IMDB lists Elvira’s birthday as March 2, 1901. Jenny’s birthday is unlisted, but it’s believed that she is 12 years younger than her sister. Billed as “Pinheads”, Jenny and Elvira were also intellectually delayed, possessing toddler-like mentalities, but it was that childlike innocence that charmed crowds and audiences. Freaks essentially begins with Schlitzie, Pip and Zip dancing and frolicking joyfully in the woods - and later scenes show their adorable bashfulness and sweet nature. At their peak, the Pinhead Snow Sisters were earning as much as $75 per week - a stunning amount when you consider that their peak coincided with the great depression era. -thehumanmarvels
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February 22nd, 2021
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