Dallas Fair

[Phil Pearce]

Was there ever, a long time ago (1920's, 1930's) a fair in Dallas?

[The Texture]

I doubt it.

[confederaterose]

I have been around here since the early 40's. I do not remember one in that time; but, being older then dirt, I may just not remember. We always went to the Cobb County Fair.

[jan tripcony]

My aunt just told me there was a county fair during that time & it was where Mary's flower shop is now.

 

I thought I had remembered my mother & aunts talking about it over the years but was not sure

until my aunt confirmed it while ago.

[october]

There use be one behind where Puckett's Body Shop and where the Apartments are now. That was the late 70's.

[bluegrass]

There was definitely a Paulding County fair in the late 70s. I remember going to it.

[CitizenCain]

I don't know if Paulding had a Fair before but it would be great to have one now. A good way to meet your neighbors. maybe have a charity cake sale and such. Since their isn't much going on at the Airport we could use one of the runways. May as well get some use out of the place.

Edited January 10, 2016 by CitizenCain

[Phil Pearce]

My aunt just told me there was a county fair during that time & it was where Mary's flower shop is now.

 

I thought I had remembered my mother & aunts talking about it over the years but was not sure

until my aunt confirmed it while ago.

Could it have been a little farther on down Foster Ave., in the direction toward the railroad tracks, on the right? Do you remember an Exhibition Hall being there, where people came to display livestock, agricultural goods, baked goods, etc.?

[jan tripcony]

Could it have been a little farther on down Foster Ave., in the direction toward the railroad tracks, on the right? Do you remember an Exhibition Hall being there, where people came to display livestock, agricultural goods, baked goods, etc.?

It might have been. I will ask her more about it. She would have been very young in the 1930's.

She was telling me she thought one of their older brothers might have taken the younger children.

She said they had rides & everything else that a county fair would have.

[lowrider]

I thought I remembered there being a fair in this county when I was a kid growing up in Powder Springs. We always went to the Cobb County fair before it was the North Georgia fair. And we would get free tickets at school.

[rockysmom]

There's a historic society for Dallas isn't there?

[jan tripcony]

I started my first five years in Marietta right off the square.

then we moved next to my grandparents farm in Paulding.

When we still lived in Marietta the Cobb County fair was

in walking distance there on Fairground Street of what I can remember.

 

Does anyone remember the fair being there? I just have a distant memory.

[The Texture]

If it werent for the fact that main street is already closed off too much for my own tastes then ide welcome doing a big yearly city festival. Invote vendors and radio stations and strippers and microbreweries... you know... for the kids.

[happynana]

Not sure of the years but it use to be held at the old Drag Strip across the road from Mt Tabor Park.

Just an FYI. There was also mud drag races held there a few times in the early 80's and a helicopter that crashed on the property around mid 2000's. Maybe it was used for a scene in a movie once also.

I wish it could be used for public events instead of just sitting there vacant. It was a popular place when I was younger.