Morning Call columnist Bill White had a piece earlier in the week where he lamented that Bobo the dunking clown was no longer at the fair. Although that's about as funky as it got for Bill in his era, we older Allentonians remember much hotter nights at the fairgrounds. Up to the late sixties the fair had girly shows. I'm going back to the era of Gooding's Million Dollar Midway and Benny's Bingo. I'm going back to three midways packed between the Farmer's Market and Chew Street. I'm going back to when the fair only started after Labor Day.
I mentioned in one of my previous fair posts that Fred Schoenk and I made and sold printed t-shirts at the fairs during high School. At the Kutztown Fair we were hired by the burlesque show owner to letter a new banner for his show tent...as high school boys we would have paid him for the experience.
reprinted from September of 2018
photocredit:molovinsky...Black rock and roll review with strippers, 1969 Allentown Fair
Hey, Mr Mike... remember the stock car races and the sulkies??? The fair sure isn't what it once was. I can remember when my Aunt Dotty and Uncle Muncie set up a stand selling Niagara Cyclo Massage chairs every year before they retired and went to Florida. Those were the days!!!
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