Attendance Climbs at 55th Annual Fair
Paid attendance for the four-day Valley Fair that ended Sunday climbed to 13,000 this year from 9,800 last year, organizers said Monday.
The fair’s board of directors had hired a management team that runs the profitable Antelope Valley Fair after a poorly publicized move last year from Burbank to the Hansen Dam Recreation Area in the northeast San Fernando Valley.
Paid attendance fell by a third last year and the state-funded event lost $188,000.
The new management team of Dan Jacobs and Randy Jaqua hired Tex-Mex rocker Freddy Fender and added rides that could be seen from the Foothill Freeway.
This was the 55th year for the summer celebration of Valley agriculture.
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