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The first Fair was held in the fall of 1914. [1] The Fair has continued every year since 1914, except during the World War II years of 1942-1945. Today, the Panhandle-South Plains Fair is known as "The Granddaddy of West Texas Fairs," and ranks second to Dallas's State Fair of Texas in attendance and continuous history.
Florida State Fair in 2013. In 1904, the South Florida Fair Association was formed and plans for a new exhibition were proposed. The fair was founded as the South Florida Fair in downtown Tampa and renamed the Mid-Winter Festival a few years later. The name finally changed to the present Florida State Fair in 1915. [7]
The Florida State Fairgrounds in East Lake-Orient Park, Florida, hosts the annual Florida State Fair and various other events. [1] Covering 355 acres (1.44 km 2 ), it features a variety of buildings.
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Lubbock (/ ˈ l ʌ b ə k / LUB-ək) [7] is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Lubbock County. With a population of 266,878 in 2023, [ 3 ] Lubbock is the 10th-most populous city in Texas and the 84th-most populous in the United States. [ 8 ]
The South Florida Bulls men's basketball team used Expo Hall as their main home arena for the 1979–80 season before the on-campus USF Sun Dome opened. The Tampa Bay Rowdies of the defunct North American Soccer League used Expo Hall for 8 of their 16 home games during the 1983–84 indoor season .
Money raised by the fair's "FAIRs Care" county fair program since 2013: More than $360,000Pounds of food the fair's Fairs Care has donated to fight hunger since 2013: 295,776.20
The first U.S. state fair was the New York, held in 1841 in Syracuse, and has been held annually since. [2] The second state fair was in Detroit, Michigan , which ran from 1849 [ 3 ] to 2009. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The fair was revived in 2013 and has been held at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi, Michigan ever since.