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It hosts the annual San Diego County Fair. The venue sits on a 370-acre (1.5 km 2) property along the Pacific Ocean coastline. It includes the Del Mar Racetrack, built in 1936 by the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, with founding member Bing Crosby providing leadership. [1]
For decades the official greeter and host of the fair was Don Diego, a smiling caballero portrayed by Spanish actor Tom Hernández from 1947 until his death in 1984. The character was based on a real person, Don Diego Alvarado, whose family had a large land grant in the Del Mar area during the late 1800s; Alvarado was known for his grand parties and was regarded as the local symbol of a ...
El Dorado County Fair – Placerville, California; Elkhart County 4-H Fair – Goshen, Indiana; Laporte County 4-H Fair-Laporte, Indiana. Erie County Fair – Hamburg, New York; Farm Progress Show – Dacatur and Boone, Iowa (alternate years) Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo – Fort Worth, Texas; Fulton County Fair – Wauseon, Ohio
The city and county of San Diego are sometimes referred to as "America's craft beer capital". [5] [6] San Diego was listed first in the "Top Five Beer Towns in the U.S." by Men's Journal, [7] and the Full Pint said that San Diego is "one of the country's premier craft beer destinations" with a "thriving brewing culture". [8]
Comic-Con International, the comic book and pop culture extravaganza, is kicking off in San Diego. The convention, which draws over 130,000 fans annually, opens for a preview night Wednesday and ...
The show is the largest indoor antiques show south of San Francisco and attracts over 100 antiques dealers from across the western United States. [4] [5] During the downturn in the economy, the 2009 show had 20 percent fewer exhibitors than usual. [6] But participation over the next two years increased again, surpassing the 2009 number.
Overall, projects in Sumter and Sumter County received an investment from earmarks of $232 per person — the second highest per-person investment of the state’s 46 counties.
San Diego County (/ ˌ s æ n d i ˈ eɪ ɡ oʊ / ⓘ), officially the County of San Diego, is a county in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of California, north to its border with Mexico. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,298,634; [7] it is the second-most populous county in California and the fifth-most populous in the United ...