What you’re looking at here is a very interesting two photos same day same location the only difference is Sal change the masks on the wall and the floor this was his mask studio in 1949 when he traveled with the world of mirth a Bizzarre traveling carnival This was his own trailer that opened up he would do mind reading acts out of it it would close down at night so he could sleep in it and have a little mask parties with the midgets and burlesque girls he told me some crazy stories Anyway this photo is from 1949 like I said but all those masks on the wall were made in the mid 30s but the New York worlds fair and 1939 sal traveled with this carnival for two years even did a magazine for them there’s going to be some crazy chapters about this place in our book in the Terracina Masquerade

What you’re looking at here is a very interesting two photos same day same location the only difference is Sal change the masks on the wall and the floor this was his mask studio in 1949 when he traveled with the world of mirth a Bizzarre traveling carnival This was his own trailer that opened up he would do mind reading acts out of it it would close down at night so he could sleep in it and have a little mask parties with the midgets and burlesque girls he told me some crazy stories Anyway this photo is from 1949 like I said but all those masks on the wall were made in the mid 30s but the New York worlds fair and 1939 sal traveled with this carnival for two years even did a magazine for them there’s going to be some crazy chapters about this place in our book in the Terracina Masquerade

Over 20 years ago I inherited my great uncle Sal‘s art estate over 25,000 large format negatives glass slides and images then there was the boxes of Published stories articles about him let’s not forget about the 110 giant masks that he made his lifetime most of those or 2 foot tall weighing in at 40 pounds each they’re the ones with the special ingredients in the papier-mâché Haitian voodoo dust, pyramid scrapings from Egypt, Secret potions from around the world anyway the first couple years I did a quick edit on the important images the negatives I need to start working on his life story negatives like this I put aside I knew one day I was going to have fun with them this was some party in the 60s it might’ve been a relatives party because the kids are young the negatives I like to work on our from the late 20s through the 40s

Over 20 years ago I inherited my great uncle Sal‘s art estate over 25,000 large format negatives glass slides and images then there was the boxes of Published stories articles about him let’s not forget about the 110 giant masks that he made his lifetime most of those or 2 foot tall weighing in at 40 pounds each they’re the ones with the special ingredients in the papier-mâché Haitian voodoo dust, pyramid scrapings from Egypt, Secret potions from around the world anyway the first couple years I did a quick edit on the important images the negatives I need to start working on his life story negatives like this I put aside I knew one day I was going to have fun with them this was some party in the 60s it might’ve been a relatives party because the kids are young the negatives I like to work on our from the late 20s through the 40s