As usual, I love the clip-art used in the ad, especially of the family. Dad's got his suit and fedora on (I thought that JFK had made hats unpopular?) while Mom's wearing a stylish boater hat. And the sandwich-board-wearing stilt walker has a lit stogie with smoke wafting upwards.
In that same edition of the Journal, a photograph of the new main entrance gate of the Fairgrounds was featured.
Tomorrow, I'll feature some of the entertainment from the 1964 Lorain County Fair.
I am enjoying this week of fair memories and today’s feature about the animal buildings reminded me of my first visit to the fair - and seeing all the animals that a kid in the Lorain suburbs had never seen close up. Some got a little too close up.
ReplyDeleteI was about 4 or 5 years old and my little brother, mom, dad and I had just entered the hog building. Someone was stirring a big barrel of what I assume was hog food and the hogs went wild, jumping against their pens, knocking some down. Out they ran, about a dozen stampeding down the aisle. Bigger than me - coming my way. I can still visualize it. I cried- but only until the snot from a sideswiping hog was wiped off my leg.
It’s a beautiful, sunny, perfect day today - see you at the fair!