{"id":389,"date":"2009-04-23T00:02:59","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T05:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=389"},"modified":"2012-10-23T13:09:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T18:09:42","slug":"dirt-parking-at-the-state-fair-fairgrounds-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"Dirt Parking at the State Fair, Fairgrounds: 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I suppose it's a silly thing to get pre-nostalgic about, but to me as a child, a big part of the adventure of going to the State Fair was the getting there. The first years I can remember, my father decided that he didn't want to face the hassle of fair traffic and parking fees, so we would catch the SCE&G Fairgrounds<\/i> bus at, I believe, the corner of Main & Blossom. These were the only<\/i> times we rode the bus as kids, and it was very exciting!<\/p>\n

Later, I think my mother was less than thrilled at riding the bus and we started to drive, but it was still an adventure -- sort of an imperfectly organized chaos where you followed a bunch of cars, hoped you were in the right lane, and then tried to figure out which guy waving a flashlight you were supposed to follow as they invented a parking lot on the fly. Of course if it were dry, the dust would be flying everywhere, and if it had been wet, it was a long slog through the mud, but it never really occurred to me that the Fair should have anything other than a dirt\/grass lot.<\/p>\n

As you can tell from the pictures though, that's about to end. It appears that next year, we will have a \"real\" parking lot at the Fairgrounds. Oh well, as long as they still have the rocket and the handwriting analysis computer, my childhood won't be totally gone!<\/p>\n

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