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The State Fair of Texas is an annual state fair held in Dallas at historic Fair Park. The fair has taken place every year since 1886 except for varying periods during World War I and World War II as well as 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [ 2] It usually begins the last Friday in September and ends 24 days later.
Crash at Crush. / 31.74510; -97.09957. The Crash at Crush was a one-day publicity stunt in the U.S. state of Texas that took place on September 15, 1896, in which two uncrewed locomotives were crashed into each other head-on at high speed. William George Crush, general passenger agent of the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad, conceived the ...
The Enterprise is an amusement ride, manufactured primarily by HUSS Park Attractions and Anton Schwarzkopf beginning in 1972. [ 1] The HUSS ride was an adaptation and improvement of a design produced earlier that year by Schwarzkopf, with an increased passenger capacity. [ 1] Despite not owning the original incarnation of the ride, HUSS was ...
Video shows as Texas State Fair patrons fled Fair Park after a shooter injured three people in the event's food court.
These photos from inside a 1972 exhibition hall show Texans sampling a wide variety of the products of their state all in fabulous seventies fashion. The 1972 Texas State Fair was bursting with ...
Three people were shot at the State Fair of Texas in Dallas over the weekend, all with non-life threatening injuries.. Around 7:45 p.m. Saturday, Dallas Police said shots were fired in the food ...
In 1999, five people were injured when a raft overturned. [ 310] In 2001, a boat filled with park employees overturned when the employees rocked the boat. The establishment was shaken up but no one was injured. [ 310] On August 4, 2009, a family of three and one other park visitor were injured when a boat capsized.
58. The Indiana State Fair stage collapse was an incident during an August 13, 2011, outdoor concert by Sugarland as part of their Incredible Machine Tour at the Indiana State Fair in which a wind gust from an approaching severe thunderstorm hit the stage's temporary roof structure, causing it to collapse. The structure landed among a crowd of ...