Artists In Prison Once Created Functional Carnivals Made Of Toothpicks

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At a local San Francisco landmark , Musée Mécanique , you could see old entertainment machines like zoetropes and laugh robotic clown . you’re able to also see elaborate , locomote carnivals made of toothpicks , most of which were created by people who were immure .

In the forties , at least two inmates in California pass their time sculpting and mechanize elaborate world . Some of those human beings have been preserve . Go to the right place in San Francisco and you’re able to see these incite carnivals made almost entirely out of toothpick . Hundreds of thousands of toothpicks form ferris wheels , pavilions , and dancing couple that still work .

Of the two mass who make the carnivals , one is more well - known than the other . The more obscure , Jack Harrington , was a curing architect in Hollywood before being ship to San Quentin , where he plan toothpick fair . That ’s all the information readily usable about him .

William Jennings - Bryan Burke is more of a public figure . digest in 1909 , he was still a teen when he was sent to Folsom Prison , the prison house Johnny Cash later made famous in “ Folsom Prison Blues . ” He begin building carnivals out of toothpicks in the early forties . These instance of his art are the well - preserved , because they were either bear on by the prison or bought by museums . Burke made several safety valve try , and , when released , was reincarcerated several time before he at last was parole for good in 1956 . He tie and had four children . Two of those children start a web site about his life and work , withpictures and videos.(Be careful if you ’re at work or have earpiece in because the home page does have an autoplay video . ) Burke stay on construct and touring elaborate , beautiful toothpick carnival until his death at the old age of 92 .

[ germ : Toothpick Carnival . ]

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