Fair

[tim huntzinger]

quote:Originally posted by RecycleMichael

I am going to the fair every day.

My staff and some 60 volunteers are working to help the fair recycle.

I need to find some stick-em that quickly dissolves. My plan is to coat some dimes and win enough of the glass plates for a complete set.

But are you and yours PAYING guests?

[tim huntzinger]

If you want the sights and sounds of the Midway and are a refusenik, here are 17 mins of sights and sounds from a few years ago: Video courtesy yer internet pal . . .

[RecycleMichael]

quote:Originally posted by tim huntzinger

quote:Originally posted by RecycleMichael

I am going to the fair every day.

My staff and some 60 volunteers are working to help the fair recycle.

I need to find some stick-em that quickly dissolves. My plan is to coat some dimes and win enough of the glass plates for a complete set.

But are you and yours PAYING guests?

Why does that matter to you?

I am spending almost a hundred dollars a day buying bags and supplies for the recycling efforts, but the volunteers get in free, get some food coupons and a free t-shirt.  

If you want to volunteer to help recycle at events, you can often get perks. Call our office to help make Tulsa greener.

[tim huntzinger]

Those who are refuseniks are saying they are voting with their wallets.  You say you are going every day but do not say if it is for free.  Having worked nonprofit for nine years myself, I know that it is all a labor of love, but still, you are spending others' cash and that is not the same thing as the posters here saying they will not attend.

Volunteer?  Ha ha! In the immortal words of Francis Cross in Scrooged: 'Scrape 'em off, Claire!'

[Steve]

quote:Originally posted by Conan71

I'm conflicted.  On the one hand, I don't want to hand over any more money to them, but I'd like to see the midway improvements my tax dollars have paid for.

My sentiments exactly.  I think the last time I went to the fair was around 1997, and I live within walking distance of the fairgrounds.

About 6 months ago, I left my car for repair on 11th street one morning and decided to walk back to my house at 26th & Yale.  Along the way, I walked through the fairgrounds to check out the improvements.  I thought it all looked very nice, a much needed updating although I can't speak for the quality of the work.  I saw enough of it then and won't be attending the fair this year.

[FOTD]

Have they thought of involving the local community more? Do they still have pie contests and that type of event? Speaking of cars, they should let all the collectors go place their antiques for display. Maybe other types of local talent display and contests? Bring back the old flavor of what the Fair was in it's original form.

Has the animal contests and shows changed much?

Less noise sounds better....

[inteller]

quote:Originally posted by OUGrad05

Went today.  

This is two years in a row I've been disappointed...why are they letting Ford pay them to be the only automobile display at the fair?  The biggest reason I go is to check out all the cars.  There hasn't been **** there the last two years so I guess this was my last trip to the fair

huh?  I remember seeing Chevys there last year.

[sgrizzle]

quote:Originally posted by inteller

quote:Originally posted by OUGrad05

Went today.  

This is two years in a row I've been disappointed...why are they letting Ford pay them to be the only automobile display at the fair?  The biggest reason I go is to check out all the cars.  There hasn't been **** there the last two years so I guess this was my last trip to the fair

I didn't go last year but I remember there being a ton of Fords by the barns (due to sponsorships) but almost every vendor was on display in the IPE building.
huh?  I remember seeing Chevys there last year.

[shadows]

quote:Originally posted by FOTD

Have they thought of involving the local community more? Do they still have pie contests and that type of event? Speaking of cars, they should let all the collectors go place their antiques for display. Maybe other types of local talent display and contests? Bring back the old flavor of what the Fair was in it's original form.

Has the animal contests and shows changed much?

Less noise sounds better....

Your lost in the past operation of the Tulsa Free State Fair and need to update.  The fair has been changed to where it has been industrialized for profit operations.   Try to get a copy of the amount of money that is taken in and how it is locally distributed and the millions of dollars that leave town when the final light is turned out.

[cannon_fodder]

lol @ shadows.  In the good old days there was no profit to be had from state fairs.  That's why Murphy Brothers has been doing this since 1946, they did it for free for the first 60 years and only recently started making money on it.
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My family went to the fair.  Ate some good food.  Enjoyed the animals and the Made in Oklahoma section.  The Kids Only Zone was pretty cool too.  Skipped the rides and midway.

Glad to see Bell's isn't "just a parking lot."  It's a $10 VIP parking lot.

[Conan71]

quote:Originally posted by cannon_fodder

lol @ shadows.  In the good old days there was no profit to be had from state fairs.  That's why Murphy Brothers has been doing this since 1946, they did it for free for the first 60 years and only recently started making money on it.
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My family went to the fair.  Ate some good food.  Enjoyed the animals and the Made in Oklahoma section.  The Kids Only Zone was pretty cool too.  Skipped the rides and midway.

Glad to see Bell's isn't "just a parking lot."  It's a $10 VIP parking lot.

Wasn't the big cat exhibit and Bier Garten supposed to be where Bell's was?

Bier Garten is on the east end, can't remember where we saw the cats.

[Michael71]

quote:Originally posted by RecycleMichael

I am going to the fair every day.

My staff and some 60 volunteers are working to help the fair recycle.

I need to find some stick-em that quickly dissolves. My plan is to coat some dimes and win enough of the glass plates for a complete set.

I have a collection of band-logo mirrors.[)]

[patric]

Good Fair story on 6 about city departments either not taking ownership of their mistakes or failing to use some discretion:
http://www.newson6.com/global/story.asp?s=9093636

[sgrizzle]

quote:Originally posted by patric

Good Fair story on 6 about city departments either not taking ownership of their mistakes or failing to use some discretion:
http://www.newson6.com/global/story.asp?s=9093636

I think it's the neighborhood getting a taste of their own medicine. Complain for a few decades about the fair "messing up your neighborhood" as if they just built it. Eventually the city/county will overcompensate.

[MichaelBates]

quote:Originally posted by FOTD

Have they thought of involving the local community more? Do they still have pie contests and that type of event? Speaking of cars, they should let all the collectors go place their antiques for display. Maybe other types of local talent display and contests? Bring back the old flavor of what the Fair was in it's original form.

Every summer the fair sends out a thick "premium book" with a list of all the contests you can enter. Painting, photography, scrapbooking, pumpkin decorating, needlework, quilting -- and within each category there are subcategories and age classifications, with ribbons and cash prizes awarded in each category. Plus FFA and 4-H have their contests.

The old-fashioned fair is still there, if you look for it. And as someone mentioned, there's also Tulsa County Free Fair.