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Sarasota, Florida: Village for Small People (Gone)

Diminutive homes, the perfect size for tiny circus performers, are fondly remembered but long gone.

Directions:
Off US 41 turn east on Bee Ridge Road you will come to where Swift Road turns into Tuttle Ave, keep going and you will soon come to Midland Road, the houses would have been on the left right off Bee Ridge.
Hours:
Gone for decades.
Status:
Gone

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Village for Small People - Vague Recollections

Sarasota was for years the headquarters of the Ringling Brothers Circus and all its diverse perfomers and workers. I remember off of Bee Ridge Road there was a group of small houses where little people that worked for the circus lived, I believe it was Midland Rd and Bee Ridge, or maybe Worchester. Living in that neighborhood as a child, I found the smaller houses to be facinating and cute, with smaller doors, windows, everything at a smaller scale. I was told that some of the Munchkins actually lived there.

People that lived in Sarasota in the '50s and '60s would remember the little houses.

[B Carter, 05/01/2011]

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