Edited Post: I screwed up when posting these earlier late at night before I left town for the weekend ... hopefully these images wll appear correctly ...

Since the State Fair is presently having it's centennial, it seemed appropos to make a blog article about the fair's history. The blog post is now done but I'm skipping the boring text and just showing the pics in this thread. I apologize for not getting it done right the 1st time!

From the postcards, it looks like coats & ties were the uniform of the day! Gawd! What? No Hawaiian shirts, no bermuda shorts, no sandals? And, to be sure, where's them short shorts & skirts!

IMAGES OF THE STATE FAIR OF OKLAHOMA

These are the best that I've found of early day postcards and photos.

Credit Vanished Splendor, Vol 1, Edwards & Ottaway (Abalache Book Shop Publishing Co. 1982) – Entrance and Exposition Building


Credit Vanished Splendor, Vol 1, Edwards & Ottaway (Abalache Book Shop Publishing Co. 1982) – Roping Contest: About this one, text from Vanished Splendor at it's item 174 is worth mentioning: "The famous 101 Ranch from Bliss, Oklahoma, sent a contingent of cowboys to at least one of the State Fairs and card no. 174 shows one of their finest, Bill Pickett. Bill was a black cowboy from south Texas who is said to have originated the idea of bulldogging in a 'bite-'em-lip" fashion. Bill was skilled with his rope, as he demonstrated here."


Credit Vanished Splendor, Vols 1 & 2, Edwards & Ottaway (Abalache Book Shop Publishing Co. 1982, 1983) – Roller Coaster & Carousel




Credit Ok County Assessor's Website – Exposition Building and Entrance




Credit Vanished Splendor, Vol 2, Edwards & Ottaway (Abalache Book Shop Publishing Co. 1983) and Ok County Assessor's Website – Entrance




Credit Ok County Assessor's Website – Aerials




Credit Vanished Splendor, Vols 1 and 2, Edwards & Ottaway (Abalache Book Shop Publishing Co. 1982, 1983) – Racetrack






The state fair's website is http://www.oklahomastatefair.com and it's "history" page (not yet with anything in it) is here: http://www.oklahomastatefair.com/history.asp

All photos removed. Whoopsies.

Edited by Doug Monday 9/18/06: SO VERY SORRY that I misunderstood. In my haste to get the stuff posted Friday evening-Saturday morning before I left town for the weekend, I screwed up and did a bad posting job, for which I'm very sorry. The above post has now been edited and, hopefully, this time I've done it right.

Don't guess I understand your post after I posted my newer images of the "old" Okc fair.

Help me!?

Sorry if I've posted pics inaappropriately here, which I guess you think that I did by my prior post. Not a biggie to me, if that's the case. My singular intention in posting here is to help this web forum get back to speed after being zapped.

Regardless, my blog post for the early-day Fair is done.

That said, if posting restrictions/definitions are existing here, I'm unaware. Sorry to hve apparently violated them by an ealier post.

No, he means your photos aren't showing up. It says Photobucket moved them.

Rules, what rules?

My fault 100%. See above posts. The earlier fair image post has hopefully been fixed so that it is mo' better!

Lookin good. I'm going Saturday night, and we'll see some country concert -- I forget who. I don't really get into country at all, but hey, it's the state fair...