Lorain County Fair Week – August 22 - 27, 1972

Fifty years ago this week, the 1972 edition of the Lorain County Fair ran from Tuesday, August 22 through Sunday, August 27.

The Lorain County Fair apparently didn't rate a full page advertisement in the Lorain Journal that year; the above one-column ad was the first bit of promotion for it that I could find. It appeared in the August 22, 1972 edition of the paper on Opening Day.

Note the feature attraction at the Grandstand: the ever-popular Hurricane Hell Drivers, featuring stunt driver Dan Fleenor. He and his team had appeared at the Fair in 1969.

And here's the Journal ad that ran on the last day of the Fair, on August 27, 1972.

Like many editions of the Fair (including this year's), the traditional Demolition Derby finished out the week with a bang. Yup, we Lorain Countians love our demolition derbies.