Old Reliable, the Germantown Fair, c. 1910
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| Michael's Celebrated Band, 1916 | Fairgrounds, 1916 |
| From Facebook posts by John Henderson | |
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Germantown Fairgrounds |
Germantown Fairgrounds |
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| Germantown Fair Scenes | ||
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(Gas balloons are different than hot air balloons, because they use unheated helium or hydrogen gases for lifting. Hot air balloons can go up for hours; gas balloons can go up for days.) |
| Celebrating the 50th Anniversary, in 1904 |
John Marshall | not a hot air balloon, but a gas balloon |
Directors of the Germantown Fair, 1954
| On the 25th anniversary (in 1879) of the first Germantown Fair (in 1854), Mr. M. F. Adamson wrote his article on Germantown Fifty Years Ago. Read it here. (pdf) |
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“The Germantown Fair, announced on yellow cloth streamers tacked on fence rails and gate posts over five counties, was to meet as usual during the the last week of August at its home grounds sixteen miles west of Maysville, on the Cincinnati pike. Started in 1852 by a colony of Bavarian immigrants, it had become the high point of Mason County's summer season.” from Elizabeth Pickett Chevalier's 1942 novel Drivin' Woman. |
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| Photographer's seemed to take an interest in the fair's parking lots. | ||
Billboard, September 9, 1945
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At the Germantown Fair |
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Concessions at the Fair, c. 1954 |
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Steam Threshing Machine |
View of the Fair |
| “Blue Ribbon Shows played to 22,000 paid admissions at the Germantown Fair. The organization has been contracted to furnish the midway attractions for the 1946 annual.” Billboard, September 1, 1945. |
We believe this to be the Germantown fair.
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