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Description
Film begins with a look back at pre-1936 fair with historic images provided courtesy of Ed Mannion and then focuses on one family's day at the fair. Features carnival scenes, Happy the Clown of Happy Time Circus, organ grinder and monkey, Guess Your Weight man, Junior Livestock Auction with Tony Brazil and Louie Ricci, horse racing, junior exhibit hall, rodeo, food, motorcycle riding, destruction derby, many Farmers' Day activities including candy pole climb, greased pig, calf scramble, milking contest, tug-of-war, sheep shearing, sheep herding, hide riding, exhibit hall, Hall of Flower, and Louie Silva's Clydesdales. Narrator: Ed LaFrance
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