The show, which dates back to 1847, hosts livestock, grandstand performances, trade stands and fairground attractions.
West Berlin, meanwhile, had transformed itself into a giant fairground, and the Wall was its biggest ride.
The event will feature dancing, street entertainment, a children's fairground, and vintage vehicles.
This year's was the 145th Illinois State Fair, now held on the 366-acre fairground in the state capital of Springfield.
He burst into a fairground tent and there, before him, was Mr Electrico in his chair, with a sparking sword.
Its ornate pavilions are still strangely beautiful, but the park itself has grown ramshackle and is crowded with tacky fairground attractions.
You make money by charging the owners of venues looking to attract the leagues to their establishments--a bar, restaurant, church, school or fairground, for example.
These trucks are decked out in classic Indian style: half fairground carousel and half Hindu temple, with vermilion and sunshine yellow as the favoured colours.
His other choices are Holding Back The Years, Fairground - "because of that huge wheel they have further down the river" - and Words For Girlfriends.
Thousands of people attended Sparks in The Park each year, with fairground rides, stalls and food also on the site over the weekend closest to 5 November.
However, when the state fair is held in October, it is illegal to bring a loaded gun to the fairground because of the large crowds, authorities said.
In 1932, an itinerant troupe of stunt and race fliers at a New Orleans waterfront fairground attracts the attention of Burke Devlin (Rock Hudson), an ambitious and colorful journalist.
Many historical sites that have escaped the wrecking ball, however, have suffered from gaudy restorations catering to China's boom in domestic tourism, which can turn remote relics into fairground attractions almost overnight.
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She evokes the universe in which we carelessly frolic as an unknowable, shadowy place where invisible terrors are likely to pop up when we least expect them like grinning skeletons in a fairground tunnel-of-love.
Bertazzon 3B is one of around 50 family firms in a manufacturing cluster in north-east Italy that leads the world in turning steel, fibreglass and electronics into roundabouts, bumper cars and other fairground thrills.
Instead of opening the show with the famous dance prelude at the fairground, Hytner brought the curtain up on the claustrophobic, shadowy New England textile mill where Julie Jordan and her friend Carrie Pipperidge work.
And as long as there are fairground grandstands on summer nights, as long as there are small-town ballparks with stages where the pitcher's mound should be, the singers will get to keep delivering the goods.
Greeted everywhere by flower-pelting citizens, addressing a crowd of more than a million in the New Delhi Fairground, touring the sacred Taj Mahal, General Eisenhower added luster to his legacy in the twilight of his presidency.
On Brighton's Palace Pier, where the Noble Organisation has invested in a dazzling array of slot machines and fairground rides, entry is free, as are deckchairs in which to sit and watch the sights of London-by-the-sea.
And in Cardiff, more than 50, 000 people gathered in the streets around the civic centre to watch bands, take a turn on the fairground rides or take to the ice in the council's Winter Wonderland rink.
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General Motors, under pressure to create a midprice blockbuster sport utility with the look of a macho Hummer, relied on input from 481 people summoned to a building on an empty fairground in southern California in June 2001.
Dandong's tour boats take visitors close to the North Korean bank where they can see timber piled up ready for shipment across the river close to a hotel that rarely has guests and a fairground Ferris wheel that never moves.
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