MonthSeptember 2008

The World's Largest Classroom

September 19, 2008

More than 17,000 students visited the Fair today as part of the FairKids Discovery Club field trip program. Each year the Fair hosts more than 100,000 students, teachers and chaperones – all for free! Where else can they see where milk comes from, how to weave a sweater from wool, learn all about bugs and…

Aye, Scurvy Dog, Get Ye to the Faire!

September 18, 2008

Tomorrow, Friday, Sept. 19, is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. That means we can use words like “landlubber,” “buccaneer,” “doubloons,” “grog” and “lily-livered.” So when you are here at the Fair searching for your buried treasure, make sure you visit A Pirate’s Life. We have a great aerial show with fightin’ pirates, piraty crafts…

Wrestling with Spice

September 14, 2008

Lucha Libre, Mexican wrestling, brought their high-flyin’, body-slammin’, not-your-ordinary-wrestling style to the LA County Fair Sunday. Sponsored by Univision, the event was pretty darn popular with the crowds. Masked good guys battled evil masked bad guys for some fast-action wrestling. The audience booed the bad guys, shouted for the good guys and a good time was…

From Indiana to Pomona to Win Gold

September 14, 2008

This wasn’t just the year of the summer olympics – dairy products vied for gold right here at the LA County Fair! The Fair annually judges dairy products – the in yogurt, ice cream, etc. – and this year it wasn’t a local that took the gold for frozen custard. Rick and Paulette Lodde, owners…

As Fine As Wine…

September 13, 2008

The Los Angeles International Wine & Spirits Marketplace, presented by Ralphs, offers an array of wine (and a few spirits) education classes throughout the Fair for novices and experts alike. Winemakers, wine judges and wine experts of all sorts conduct the classes. On Friday Wes Hagen, winemaker with Clos Pepe Estate held a class on White…