Carny Town - Traveling Carnivals, Fairs and Festivals

Fire Pembrooke Pines, Fla about Spring 1979

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Cigarette tossed into the strawgrass I lost 2 trucks, 27 tires, a generator and house trailer. There were other losses as well, no rides. The locals pitched in with clothes.

Water Carnival headed downtown? | Hutchinson Leader

Link: Water Carnival headed downtown? | Hutchinson Leader.

The Hutchinson Jaycees want to bring more Water Carnival events back downtown and will present their plans to the City Council tonight (Feb. 27). Declining attendance at the annual June event’s fairground carnival rides has prevented the Jaycees from signing a midway entertainment company this year. One company has said it would consider coming to Hutchinson if a more visible, high-traffic area can be used. The Jaycees want to use First Avenue Southeast, where the Farmers Market is usually based, along with the parking lot behind the 101 Park Place building. The Jaycees also plan to move the Friday afternoon Teddy Bear Band concert and the Saturday afternoon Kiddie Day Parade and Junior Royalty Coronation to Library Square, and the outdoor evening street dance to the city parking lot north of Washington Avenue and east of Franklin Street.

Tip up Town Winter Fest

Tip up Town 1-2007 017, originally uploaded by Corvair owner.

More pics of Hildebrand by JimmyD

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Hildebrands Midway of Fun, Homestead Fl

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Recent photos found at:

http://www.lonestarthrills.com/texas_gallery/v/Fort-Worth-Rodeo/2007/

http://www.lonestarthrills.com/texas_gallery/v/San-Antonio-Rodeo/2007/ 

http://new.photos.yahoo.com/flamoflamoflamo/album/576460762384150334

http://www.lonestarthrills.com/texas_gallery/v/Houston-Livestock-and-Rodeo/2007/

Star of Texas fair just days away

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Cotton candy, ferris wheel, games and more! Crabtree Amusements will visit the Star of Texas Fair and Rodeo March 9-24, 2007. Offering the finest in food, games and rides, win your honey a stuffed animal and ride the Crazy Mouse!

Riverside Fair breaks single-day, total-attendance marks

Link: thedesertsun.com | Fair breaks single-day, total-attendance marks.

The 61st annual Riverside County Fair & National Date Festival wrapped up its 10-day run on Sunday with a record breaking performance. The fair broke its all-time record for single-day attendance with 57,059 Sunday, beating out the previous record set on a Saturday in 2005. The total fair attendance record was also smashed, breaking through the 300,000 barrier for the first time in history. This year's 303,476 attendees - climbing above last year's 299,756 - put the event comfortably above the milestone number. "We're pretty stoked," said EDA Fair Manager Daryl Shippy. Phenomenal weather, great entertainment and a low-cost entry fee, that included free admission to Foreigner, REO Speedwagon and Cheap Trick concerts at Alladin's Concert Pavilion, helped drive the numbers up, Shippy said.

Pasco: Fair organizers credit marketing for attendance

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People flocked to the fair in record numbers this year, Pasco County Fair organizers said as the event ended its 60th year. "Our final number will be between 43,000 and 44,000," general manager Clark Converse said. This year's attendance is a 10 percent increase over the previous record, set last year. Converse attributes the growth in attendance to several factors - warm weather, better marketing, a growing market, engaging entertainment, more livestock entries, and the rodeo, which this year was free with fair admission. "You can't see a PRCA (Professional Rodeo Cowboys' Association) rodeo for seven dollars anywhere," he says. "Even if you didn't want to come to the fair, it would be a heck of a deal." "We really pushed advertising this year with some big radio stations," says annual chairman Tracy Thompson, who adds that people called from New Tampa, Wesley Chapel and Trinity asking how to find the fair. "A lot of people really have no idea of where Dade City is. "We've been told this, too, by people calling from the Tampa area, that they feel like our fair is a little safer for their kids because we're more compact than say the state fair, where it's a lot bigger," Thompson adds. "We're getting new people every year." Fair membership sales to families and individuals%

2007 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo™ - Home

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Only -1 days until the 75th Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo

Dade County Youth Fair setup

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Dade County Youth Fair Setup