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Off-Ramp

Some Pig

By Off-Ramp Staff
Published Sep 1, 2007
"Spelterini's Sapient Pig," c. 1830. Pigs, as Jay points out, are very intelligent creatures.
"Spelterini's Sapient Pig," c. 1830. Pigs, as Jay points out, are very intelligent creatures.
(
courtesy Ricky Jay/Hammer Museum
)

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Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John is sharing selections from the Off-Ramp vault to help you explore this imperfect paradise.

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Magician Ricky Jay shows John his collection of centuries old ads of performing pigs, legless wonders, and flea circuses. The collection is at the Hammer Museum.

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