LA County Fair, 2005
Welcome to the LA County Fair
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The Bramlets, The Kid and I went to the LA County Fair (photoset) this past weekend. It’s truly wonder of nature, the fair, and easily the best excuse to stuff corn dogs in to your face, drink watery American beers and spend some quality time with livestock. Plus: mullets! Mullets galore! You’ve never seen so many! Hoo boy.
The Kid geeks out over the animals and the old-timey/blacksmithy stuff. I get in to the photo contest and some of the artsy-craftsy things (plus: corn dogs). It was the Bramlets’ first time, so they were taking everything in. Good times. Good times indeed.
One of the oddest things about this trip is that we went on the day when ZZ Top was to play. Now, we don’t get a lot of the ZZ Top here in LA County. That’s really more of a San Berdoo thing. The crowd was impressive. I saw one obese 60-something woman in a mechanized wheelchair with a ZZ Top t-shirt on. I don’t think that could be topped.
One thing I can recommend to anybody thinking about going to the fair: show up early. We got there around 10:30, and it didn’t really start to get crowded until after 2:00 (at which point it really started to get crowded). Also, if you show up in the AM, the “standard” parking only differs from “VIP” by fifteen feet or so.
I put a LA County Fair photoset on Flickr. I hope you enjoy it.