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They will be returned. Send to: Neighborhood Post, P.O. Box 4647, Fla. 33436 South Florida Fairgrounds replaced speedway in 1958 When was the South Florida Fairgrounds built? Has it always been a fairgrounds? Was it ever a speedway? Here's the story, from fair records and Buck Christian, executive director since 1981: Living Trusts Now there's no excuse for you and your family not to benefit from the advantages of a Revocable Living Trust Single Person $249 no asset requirements Married Couple Married Couple $449 wassets exceeding Plus additional incidental cost Robert D. Schwartz, Attorney At Law Certified Public Accountant Toll Free 1-866-34-TRUST (348-7878) The Talni Beach County Fair" started in March 1912, a four-day event under a single ij-r 1.1 tent on the grounds of the Palm fTrXjl I Beach County Courthouse.

The county, split from Dade only three years earlier, wanted a forum to show off its winter crops, livestock and booming real estate. The town's godfather, Henry Flagler, sweetened the pot by offering cash prizes for farmers Eliot Weinberg PostTime 1955, it set up in the parking lot of the Palm Beach Speedway, a facility with a half-mile, high-banked track, near the site of the fair's present location along Southern Boulevard and west of Florida's Turnpike. In 1956, the county deeded 18 acres at the present site of Palm Beach Community College's main campus in Lake Worth, and after the fair was held there that year, the county took it back for the school and instead deeded 100 acres next to the speedway. The 1957 fair was at John Prince Park. Later that year, the fair's corporation bought the speedway property, about 35 acres.

The fair opened on its new grounds Jan. 27, 1958, and was promptly attacked by a small tornado that blew down sue tents but hurt no one. For its January 1960 event, it was renamed the South Florida Fair. It later added 10 exhibit halls, the 40,000 square-foot Expo Hall, an adjacent 70,000 square-foot hall, Yesteryear Village, a paved midway and concourse areas. The Coral Sky later Mars Amphitheatre, capacity 20,000, opened in 1995.

The fair's budget has gone from about $50,000 in 1957 to about $8 million now. South Florida Fain 793-0333 Historical Society of Palm Beach County: 832-4164 The "Post Time" column will answer your questions about local history. Submit your questions along with your name and home town to Post Time, The Palm Beach Post, 2915 S. Congress Delray Beach, Fla. 33445.

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Suite 220 West Palm Beach 33409 Mr. Schwartz's Qualifications include: Graduate of Univ. of Florida College of Law whonors and others who displayed their wares. The fair moved the following year to a site just to the north, near the railroad depot. The Depression hit hard and the fair was reduced to a carnival midway from 1930 until 1937, then is believed to have shut down all together.

A plan to revive it for early 1942 was quashed by the Pearl Harbor attack. It finally reopened in 1946 at the National Guard Armory, then moved in early 1948 to Morrison Field, later Palm Beach International Airport, but was evicted again when the airport reactivated for the Korean conflict. The fair incorporated in 1953, and from then to raauatea turn Lauae from Flonda State University bpeaner on bstate Tax Planning 'The hiring of a lawyer is an important decision that should not be based solely upon advertisement. Before you decide, ask me to send you free written miormanon aooui my quanncaiions ano experience..