3978 - Dallas, Texas, United States

This card is coming from a Canadian ex-pat living and working in Dallas as a registered nurse. So many Canadians work in Dallas as health care workers.

This card is a souvenir of the State Fair of Texas. It takes place at Fair Park in Dallas and started in 1886. The two World Wars and COVID-19 cancelled fairs in 1918, 1942, 1943, 1944, and 2020. It begins the last Friday of September (a week from today as I write this) and ends 24 days later. It averages about two million visitors.

A big part of the fair is the annual college football game between Oklahoma and Texas, known as the Red River Rivalry. It is played at the Cotton Bowl located on state fair grounds. There is also the State Fair Classic between Grambling State University and Prairie View A&M University.

The fair has had its fair (no pun intended) share of controversy. The fair is located in a depressed neighbourhood and the fair actually creates real estate values to go down. Neighbourhood businesses also lose money while the fair is on.

Racial discrimination also mars the history of the fair. The fair would only allowed African-Americans in on "Colored People's Day" until 1910. He reappeared as Negro Achievement Day in 1936 to coincide with the Texas Centennial Explosition. African-Americans were not allowed to participate in entertainment or eat at restaurants and concession stands on other days.

The fair also once had a Ku Klux Klan Day, and as recently as the 1980s, a day dedicated to the Confederate States of America.

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A wonderful message on this card that translates to to those wh o can wait, everything comes with time.

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