One bill said "The celebrated Dr. Armand de Montalban of Paris," would "lecture on the Science of Phrenology" at such and such a place, on the blank day of blank, at ten cents admission, and "furnish charts of character at twenty-five cents apiece."

But she was not so pleased to see Missouri Ike shuffle in, hat in hand, and sullenly put down his fifteen cents admission.

Funny now to think of Granddad paying his ten cents admission, then sitting there in the dark with his nickel box of Jujubes watching Clantons-Daltons-James boys riding in and out of low-budget towns.

In 1968, 25 cents admission was charged for the first time, after the Knott family rerouted the Cable Car and circled the property in a tall fence.

He ran the operation almost entirely by himself, and charged 10 cents admission.

Ultimately, in 1937, Harkin teamed up with Jay Gould's Million Dollar Spectacle, which displayed "John" for 25 cents admission.