Spectacles: Bridge to the Old World

You get all you can stand for $1.50. Horses dive into water tanks, a British stunt team boing-boings giddily on flexible metal poles, a porpoise who thinks he is a Chris-Craft drags a blonde around on water skis. There are four theaters, all with Broadway-size capacities and customers drifting freely from one to another see everything from first-run movies to geriatric vaudeville. There are goldfish races, jazz bands, a believe-it-or-not museum, ballroom dancing, a Kiddies Theater where nearly all performers are under 16, a diving bell for the observation of bottom life....

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