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The Fairplex has been the home of the L.A. County Fair since 1922. Known prior to 1984 as the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds , it is located in the city of Pomona, California . The L.A. County Fair is held during the month of May since 2022, but the facility is used year-round to host a variety of educational, commercial, and entertainment such ...
La Verne/Fairplex station is a future at-grade light rail station in the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. [1] It is currently under construction as part of the Foothill Extension Project and is slated to open around August 2025 or sometime later in the summer.
RailGiants Train Museum is a railroad museum of historic trains located at the Fairplex in Pomona, California, United States. It is owned and maintained by the Southern California Chapter of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society. The museum also operates the Fairplex Garden Railway, a garden railroad which uses G scale model trains. [1]
A California Historic Landmark plaque is located near Fairplex, on the grassy drop off area, north of the intersection of Canyon Way and West McKinley Avenue, at around 1099 West McKinley Avenue, Pomona, California. [1] Construction on the Pomona Assembly Center began on March 21, 1942, and the camp officially opened on May 7, 1942.
On March 1, 1893 the California Assembly voted 54–14 for a new county to form in the region, to be named San Antonio County, with Pomona as its seat. Los Angeles interests in the Senate rejected the concept, however, and today the eastern and western portions of the valley remain divided between San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties (San ...
The presenting sponsor of the museum is the Automobile Club of Southern California. Steve Gibbs, now a retired vice-president of NHRA, led the team that reconditioned a WPA-constructed 28,500-square-foot (2,650 m 2) building on the grounds of the Fairplex to house the museum, which opened to the public in 1998. [1]
In pictures: Man stops near fast-moving Hughes fire for selfie Thursday 23 January 2025 14:21 , Julia Musto A man uses his mobile phone as the Hughes fire burns near Castaic Lake, north of Santa ...
The Millard Sheets Center for the Arts, named for the artist Millard Sheets, is a gallery for Los Angeles-based artists which is located on the Pomona fairgrounds at Fairplex. [1] The Center was built in 1937 and is dedicated to art and artists solely from Los Angeles County .