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Feb 9, 2015 · STATE OF WASHINGTON PAVILION (1915 & 2015) Location: Mason St. & Halleck St. (now the Crissy Field Marsh), San Francisco, CA. The pavilion is gone, but at least now there's a good view of the ...
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Oct 5, 2018 · When the fair returned to Sacramento in 1859, it was decided that a permanent site should be found. By 1860, a six-block site bounded by E, H, and 20th and 22nd streets was purchased and was home to the state fair for the next fifty years. An Agricultural Hall at 6th and M streets was used for exhibitions until 1884 when a new exposition hall ...
May 17, 2022 · The Los Angeles County Fair hosts one of the oldest county fair wine tastings in the country. Shortly after the end of prohibition, the Los Angeles International Wine Competition started in 1935, focusing on California wines. By the 1960s, the fair established a public wine tasting and added a wine education center in 1998.
Jun 17, 2019 · This roots back to the original fairs from the 1800s where a 72-pound beet and a 10-pound, 3-foot long carrot were on display at the first ever California State Fair. By 1913, it was apparent that ...
Aug 5, 2019 · Even the Petaluma papers tacitly conceded that Santa Rosa’s doings were now the “Sonoma County Fair,” so peg 1883 as the birth year for the Sonoma County Fairgrounds – although it wouldn’t be that for very long. The latter part of the 1880s were boom years in Santa Rosa, the town propelled forward by easy money and a frenzy of ...
Oct 20, 2021 · The tradition of growing giant cabbages for the Alaska State Fair goes back to 1941 when a $25 prize (almost $400 in today’s dollars) was offered for the largest leafy vegetable. In 2012, two years after this photo was taken, Scott Robb set a world record for the heaviest cabbage with a 138.25-pound entry.
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A racing program from the 1936 California State Fair. Reprinted from California State Fair by Carson Hendricks courtesy of the Sacramento Public Library (pg. 42, Arcadia Publishing, 2010). County and State Fairs Today. Since Elkanah Watson’s first small county fair in the early 1800s, fairs have shown few signs of decline. Today, there are ...
