The Fair: 1968

Pageant of Progress! The Fair put out this mod guide in '68, a souvenir you could take home, put away, forget, and sell to an antique store four decades later. The cover:

The Grandstand acts for 1968: perhaps the Fifth Dimension had to cancel when they all came down with pnuemonia.

Before they turned the quadrant into Heritage Square, it was Young America, filled by . . .

The bands appearing in '68:

Wow, those guys? While the kids enjoyed themselves looking at Nehru jackets, the folks could meet a bank president:

Federal indictments were still decades away.

The all-you-can-drink milk booth in '68:

The kid seems to have something of an edge. I'm going to eat the heck out of this cone and you can't stop me so there.

Also from the archives: I found some old slides of the Strib booth. The originals are rather . . . crimson.

Well, we can repair that, can't we? Yes we can:

You'll note the Dayton sign:

Yes, there was a Dayton's at the Fair, under the ramp. Another shot from a tiny, tiny picture I found in the paper's archives. Unlike the movies, saying "enhance" at the computer doesn't work. Best I can do:

Finally, a bygone shot of a bandstand.