Alameda County Fair

By Victoria Christian

Book Overview

What began as a ranching family's Sunday pastime of horse racing, with cheering crowds and thundering hooves on dusty roads, would give way to the Alameda County Fair that we know today. The Bernal family built the original racetrack in 1859 on their

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738581933
• ISBN13: 9780738581934
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A fair FAIR

It is vintage book on Alameda County Fair from the early days up to now. It is a text with a good collection of pictures on the development into an annual big event, especially on the early days of horse racing. Now it is a popular family entertainment in the summer days. It highlights many fair activities to refresh memory with who is who. Reading this book refresh memory and motive to go again.