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Title
Los Angeles County Fair of 1935, view 5
Alternative Title
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1935
Publication Information
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Title supplied by cataloger.
The first Los Angeles County Fair was held on October 17, 1922 and ran for five days through October 21, 1922 in a former beet field in Pomona. For the first few years, highlights included harness racing, chariot races, airplane wing-walking exhibitions, and agricultural exhibitions. Since its inception, the Fair has been the link between California's agriculture industry and the public. During World War II, from May 7 to August 24, 1942, these grounds were used as a Wartime Civilian Control Administration assembly center, which held more than 5,000 Japanese Americans prior to sending them to internment camps. Curiously, there is no known historical marker at the site. Now in its 87th year, the L.A. County Fair is the largest county fair in the United States, with attendance topping one million people in every year but one since 1948, and generating a national economic impact of more than $250 million dollars. The Fair is held each September on 543 acres of fairgrounds known as Fairplex (L.A. County Fair, hotel and exposition complex), and is operated by the Los Angeles County Fair Association.
View 5: Aerial photograph taken from the Goodyear blimp, Volunteer, on the last day of the 1935 L.A. County Fair showing the racetrack as well the exhibit halls and the parking lots. Races were held each afternoon, except Sunday, with pari-mutuel betting. Not visible in this angle is the carnival section.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 13 cm. on sheet 21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00081977
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Pomona-Exhibitions-L.A. County Fair-1935.; N-005-287.5 4x5
CARL0002881627
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/112725
Subject
Los Angeles County Fair (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Racetracks (Horse racing)--California--Pomona
Exhibition buildings--California--Pomona
Fairs--California--Los Angeles County
Aerial photographs
Pomona (Calif.)--Aerial views
Pomona (Calif.)

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