Mom would have been 97 today. I have some beautiful pictures of her through the years. This one was taken the same day as the picture of her riding the bear photograph, which is a classic. Notice the cigars for a nickel sign which help me date the photo.
“Stanford Newman said that cigars actually did retail for around five cents in the 1930s during the Great Depression; they were back up to 10 cents apiece again following the Second World War where we started to see brand names like Philly’s, White Owls and Dutch Masters.”
Those were the days……..
Would this have been in Richmond? The State Fairgrounds?
Important dates in history of State Fair of Virginia
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Published: September 22, 2009
the Richmond Times-Dispatch
State Fair of Vir ginia history
1854: Virginia State Agricultural Society is established, holds the first state fair at present-day Monroe Park in Richmond.
1859: The fair moves to West Broad Street near the present-day Science Museum of Virginia, is suspended from 1861 to 1866 due to the Civil War.
1906: Virginia State Fair Association organizes to revive the fair after a 10-year absence, uses a site along North Boulevard that’s now home to The Diamond.
1946: The association reorganizes as Atlantic Rural Exposition Inc. and moves the fair to Strawberry Hill off Laburnum Avenue in rural Henrico County. The site eventually is shared through a lease with Richmond International Raceway.
1999: Atlantic Rural Exposition sells Strawberry Hill complex to RIR for $47 million, plans to move fair to the Varina area of eastern Henrico County in 2001.
2002: Atlantic Rural Exposition abandons plans to relocate in Henrico, looks at Meadow Farm in Caroline County as a possible home. The farm is best known as the birthplace of Secretariat, who won the Triple Crown in 1973.
2003: Atlantic Rural Exposition buys Meadow Farm site for $5.3 million, with hopes of relocating by 2006. Group is renamed The State Fair of Virginia Inc.
2008: Fair breaks ground on $81 million complex called The Meadow Event Park.
Sept. 24, 2009: Fair opens at Meadow Farm.
Also check out the bear photo : http://otway.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/frida-kiki-gin/