County Fairs

When I was 15 years old I worked in Palisades Amusement Park high atop the the Jersey palisades across from Manhattan. I worked with the Carny guys. They were the men and women who traveled all across the U.S. setting up the State and County fairs. They were extraordinary people.

 

 

Photo Pat Capone

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I photographed a story in 1990 about the last of the train traveling carnival people who set up State fairs all across the America, the “Strates Family.”

 

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County Fairs