Rebecca Yerger, Memory Lane: The 1938 Napa County Fair & Horse Show
Following the fair’s conclusion and with all the numbers tallied, this fair far surpassed the attendance records of any previous year.
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Following the fair’s conclusion and with all the numbers tallied, this fair far surpassed the attendance records of any previous year.
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Harrison Cutler wasn’t having any of it. It was September 1966 and Cutler, who was the manager of the California State Fair, was patrolling the grounds looking for any sign of a booth peddling iron-on decals, those printed plastic slabs that can be affixed to a T-shirt simply by ironing over them. The iron-on decals being offered at the fair were, according to Cutler, too lurid for the family-friendly event, with slogans like “Photographers Are Well-Developed” proving to be a big hit. So he asked a concessions manager to round up the offending decals so that he could put his foot down w...