While there is no shortage of fat men in America, only one over the past few decades called himself a professional.
Weighing 607 pounds, Bruce Snowdon was a sideshow fat man from 1977 to 2003, billed as "Harold Huge." His death on Nov. 9 at the age of 63 marks the end of a long, heavy tradition dating back centuries.
This weekend, his loved ones will honor him and lay his ashes to rest.
"Bruce was exactly as advertised: the last fat man on show on the carnival midways," said James Taylor, publisher of the sideshow journal Shocked & Amazed.
Death of the Last Sideshow Fat Man
