Entertainments of all sorts get outlawed from time to time-from the time of the Revolution to about 1830, theater was illegal in Philadelphia, the result being that, beginning at the city limits on old Broad Street, there was an avenue of bear-baiters, and hoop twirlers, jugglers, and every other sort of street performer(the old Quakers didn't care for entertainments)--when theaters were finally allowed, the street performers lost their audiences and the trade died out(probably were many who moved inside to the stage)--