Source – 33TV.Com
DALLAS – 24 days of fair rides and fair food are just not enough! Not according to State Fair officials. And not when the green line is bringing people to Fair Park.
So now get ready for the summer of 2012!
That’s when the Texas Star may get it’s chance to shine during the summer [...]
After a long summer and a few days rest, I’ve had some time to work on the site. And tonight I decided to change the addresss of the News/Blog to http://www.carnivalmidways.com/News_Blog/ , all your links should be taking you to the new address, but for those of you who have us bookmarked, please update [...]
Source: Monika Rued – Today’sThv
Sheriff’s investigators have arrested two Baxter County juveniles for allegedly selling fake ride tickets for the Baxter County Fair and Carnival.
Archway Amusements, which operates the carnival rides and games at the Baxter County Fair, contacted the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office Wednesday after realizing they had duplicate ticket numbers.
Investigator Brad [...]
Source: LINDA MASTERS – Baxter Bulletin
Fair food has changed. In times past, a mention of going to the fair conjured up visions of corn dogs, cotton candy and funnel cakes. These days, fair food has changed into anything that can cooked in a vat of oil — deep-fried Oreos, deep-fried Twinkies, deep-fried pickles, deep-fried Coca-Cola, [...]
By Amy Bickel – The Hutchinson News
Operator calls it the last traveling one in the nation as venue’s past its heyday.
When Ward Hall ran away from his family’s Nebraska home to join the circus as a flame eater at the age of 15, his father told him he’d be back in just two weeks.
But that [...]
By Edyta B?aszczyk – Daily Egyptian
The Miller family has five generations and more than 100 years of experience in the carnival business.
It all started in 1906 when the great-grandfather, Gene Miller, of current owner Fred Miller, formed Miller Concession based out of Little Rock, Ark. The business started by providing food for fairs across the [...]
Source: jgilgun-Youtube
Nice video shot at the 2009 Mn State Fair.
Vernon Morning Star
Scenes from the Interior Provincial Exhibition in Armstrong can jump into your mind like a flashbulb popping.
There are people playing midway games, families boarding the ferris wheel and kids eating ice cream cones while an aroma of frying donut batter wafts by.
But most folks attending the fair between today and Sunday won’t consider [...]
