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Article: The house of circus great Unus. (home of acrobat Franz Furnter in Sarasota, FL)
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- Sarasota Magazine
- Article date:
- October 1, 1994
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Sarasota was home to the circus, but where exactly did the circus live? We've all been to Ca' d'Zan, of course, but that was the Boss' house. Where were the performers' homes, the aerialists, the multi-generational circus families, the midgets, the clowns? Some of them were world-famous household names. Did they live extravagant lifestyles, lavishing money on big, flamboyant houses like those country singers in Nashville?
In a word, no. When I first moved to Sarasota, I -- as did practically every writer who moved to Sarasota in those days -- interviewed the great retired circus stars. And what I was most struck by, aside from the fact that they were a remarkable ...
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...SARASOTA, Fla. The old Ringling Towers ... hotel succumbs to new times, Sarasota still pulsates like a circus ... Ringling Causeway leading from Sarasota to St. Armand's Key, a ... the daring aerialist; Franz Unus, who perfected the one ...
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