Monday, August 23, 2021

It’s Lorain County Fair Week – at last!

Vintage ad from the August 17, 1951 Lorain Journal.
Shorter fair back then!
It’s Lorain County Fair time once again – my favorite time of year (and a favorite topic on this blog).

There was no Fair for the general public last year, thanks to the pandemic. Like many of you, I really missed it. Let’s hope that the various Covid strains eventually go away, so next year we can make it two Fairs in a row.

I’ll be out at the Fair later in the week. I can just taste that Rutana’s Hot Apple Dumpling (with extra sauce but no ice cream) already! And the skinny French fries in a paper cup, dripping with vinegar and coated with salt. And the hot Italian Eatery Stromboli covered with sauce, and enjoyed at one of the booth’s pic-a-nic tables.

I reckon I’d better start saving up calories now. Oh well, it’s only once a year – right?

The Fair runs August 22-29th at the Lorain County Fairgrounds in Wellington.

To put you in a nostalgic mood for some Fair Fun, here are a few items that ran in the Journal fifty years ago in August 1971. Here’s the full-page ad that ran on August 23, 1971.

Roy Clark and Jan Howard (who sadly passed away just last year) were the big headliners that year, as noted in this article that ran in the Journal on August 18th, 1971. 

Anyway, be sure to head out to the Fair and create some new memories. 
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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 23, 2021 at 7:34 AM

    Talk about music royalty in Lorain County,Roy Clark had to be the best guitar/banjo player in the world.Self taught,he could pick anything.I remember seeing him on the Beverly Hillbillies.He also drag raced a couple of super stock 1965 Plymouths/Dodges on the side called the Hee Haw Hemi and the Super Picker.

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  2. AnonymousAugust 23, 2021 at 9:18 AM

    So I wonder how many people,after they saw Roy Clark burn the house down,went to the Foursquare Gospel Church and saw the Billy Graham show?Then before they called it a night,went to the Grape Vine Lounge and saw a top less Go Go Dancer?That is quite an impressive entertainment section that The Lorain Journal had going on there.All the entertainment anyone could ask for!

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  3. Dan BradyAugust 23, 2021 at 9:27 AM

    They might have stopped for a hot dog steamed in beer at Lum’s, too!

    https://danielebrady.blogspot.com/2011/01/name-that-restaurant-on-oberlin-avenue.html

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  4. AnonymousAugust 23, 2021 at 10:35 AM

    Where was that O,Henry's Pub located in the Midway Mall?That spaghetti dinner for $1.99 sounds good.Was this pub a good place to go or was it in there 1 year and gone the next?

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  5. Dan BradyAugust 24, 2021 at 9:20 AM

    Judging by some old C-T ads on newspaper archive websites, it appears that O’Henry’s Pub lasted at Midway Mall at least until the early 1980s.

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