American OZ Quotes

“The new face of carnivals is Mexican. They work. They drink their beer. They send their money home. They’re good family men. They’re like our fathers were in the 1950s.”
― Michael Sean Comerford, American OZ: An Astonishing Year Inside Traveling Carnivals at State Fairs & Festivals: Hitchhiking From California to New York, Alaska to Mexico

“Professional wrestling in America started in traveling carnivals called “at shows,” or athlete shows.”
― Michael Sean Comerford, American OZ: An Astonishing Year Inside Traveling Carnivals at State Fairs & Festivals: Hitchhiking From California to New York, Alaska to Mexico

“San Francisco has the most billionaires per capita in America, 1 per 11,000 people. The Bay Area is third in the world, behind New York and Hong Kong. It also has among the highest number of homeless per capita. The gap between the richest in history and the poorest is called the Silicon Chasm.”
― Michael Sean Comerford, American OZ: An Astonishing Year Inside Traveling Carnivals at State Fairs & Festivals: Hitchhiking From California to New York, Alaska to Mexico

“went to powwows with her. There’s a compliment among truck drivers, “He’s driven more miles backward than some drivers have driven forward.”
― Michael Sean Comerford, American OZ: An Astonishing Year Inside Traveling Carnivals at State Fairs & Festivals: Hitchhiking From California to New York, Alaska to Mexico