I Think We Have an Emergency

[austin_dern]

Let's try my luck with a double dose of Calhoun County Fair pictures. Never know how these will work until you try, right?

I don't know whether this is a vintage Tony the Tiger doll, or a modern-manufactured one intended to look retro, or a homemade creation that won a prize here.

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See, in the 70s, we needed entertainment so much we'd make lunchboxes out of Emergency!, a show I never remember hearing about until TV Land tried to make it a thing. (Is TV Land still a thing? I do not know.)

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I feel like these pictures of three prize-winning quarts of soy beans, especially with the burned-wood plaque for first place, is a meme format waiting to happen.

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Now I'm pretty sure we're getting into crafts and there is some great stuff here.

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Some bunny embroidery that's adorable.

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Similarly. The turtle carrying the rabbit on a cart seems unfair if this is happening after their famous race.

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Coming back to share pictures of photos here.

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Model trains. There must be train people nearby. (There were.)

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And some of the few drawn pieces, squirrel of course winning a ribbon since who doesn't like pictures of fat squirrels?

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Back to pictures of photos. This is the sequences section; bunnyhugger's, taken at the Calhoun County Fair a year before, starts in the lower right. Photographs are threatening to take over the entire crafts barn.

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Long rabbit bench, positioned outside the barn that holds rabbits, rodents, and birds.

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Warning sign outside the rabbit and rodents barn that's ... I think it's traced, or at least sourced, from an actual Bob Clampett-era Bugs Bunny cartoon but it sure looks weird like that.

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Trivia: Ferdinand de Lesseps was 80 years old in 1885, when he made his first tour of the actual Panama Canal he was building, and only his second visit to the Isthmus. Source: The Path Between The Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870 - 1914, David McCullough. (Work on the canal had begun in 1882.)

Currently Reading: Cosmonaut: A Cultural History, Cathleen S Lewis. So apparently it's likely that the Soviets had a stamp issue ready to go for Soyuz 1 (and, I imagine, the original Soyuz 2, which was supposed to fly alongside Soyuz 1 but was luckily cancelled due to bad weather at the launch site), and was probably pulped as soon as the flight failed. But apparently (if I'm reading Lewis right, and if Lewis is right) there's no known examples or designs of the stamp(s) to have survived, and that's wild.

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[fluffybeaver]

It's so cute.