60th Annual Spokane Interstate Fair
Friday, Sept. 9, 2011, was the opening day of the 60th Annual Spokane Interstate Fair. The fair, open daily from 10 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., runs through Sunday, Sept. 18.
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Al Sturgeon, of Otis Orchards, Wash., puts on a corn sheller demonstration for Elaine Black, left, and Don Sundahl, center, Sept. 13, 2011, at the Spokane County Interstate Fair. The device has been in Sturgeon’s family since 1890. The fair continues through Sunday, Sept., 18 at the Spokane County Fair & Expo Center.
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Paul Isaak performs a juggling act atop a six foot unicycle, Sept. 13., 2011, at the Spokane Interstate Fair. Tuesday was Senior Day with folks 60 years and older gaining free admission in celebration of the fair’s 60th anniversary.
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Larry and Sharry Crockett, of Spokane Wash., pause to view a brass motorcycle at that sits on a weathervane, Sept. 13, 2011 at the Spokane County Fair. The artwork was on display at the Raindrop Raingutters booth.
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Winning ribbons are on display in the goat barn, Sept. 13, 2011, at the Spokane County Interstate Fair.
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Wally Heaton, 85, of Spokane Wash., a retired mechanical engineer, pokes around the farm tractor display, Sept. 13, 2011, at the Spokane County Interstate Fair. Heaton says, “I’ve been around machinery all my life. It brings back memories, but my wife wouldn’t come. She gets tired of looking.”
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K.C. Gates and his daughter, Helen, take a spin in the Kiddyland Carnival area, Sept. 13, 2011, at the Spokane Interstate Fair. The Gates, from Seattle, are visiting Helen’s relatives in Spokane and decided to attend on Senior Day with her grandfather Frank Etter.
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On the opening day of the 60th Annual Spokane Interstate Fair, Friday, Sept. 9, 2011, Madison Locke, 17, of Deer Park, Wash., takes a walk with her rooster, Jeffery, on her shoulder.
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Helen Samsel has been judging the breads, cookies and cakes since 1953 at the Spokane Interstate Fair.
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Brady Krebs, 4, left, flops around inside a giant plastic bubble floating in a shallow pool while his friend Gunner Parker, 4, right, plays in his own bubble at the Spokane Interstate Fair, Friday, Sept. 9, 2011. This attraction, called Bobble Bay, offers a chance to roll around in a floating balloon which is inflated around the child after it is sealed up.
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Volunteer Starla Halverson, left, and swine superintendent Karen Wilson, right, return an escaped tortoise to its enclosure in the rabbit barn Friday, Sept. 9, 2011 at the Spokane Interstate Fair. The fair opened Friday and will continue through Sept. 18.
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Leah Kunz, 10, of Medical Lake rides alone Friday afternoon at the Spokane Interstate Fair.
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A calf nuzzles a heifer to make it stand so the calf could nurse in a pen in the cattle barn where Texas longhorn cattle were on display Friday, Sept. 9, 2011 at the Spokane Interstate Fair.
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Rural people and city people cross paths in the animal barns at the Spokane Interstate Fair Friday, Sept. 9, 2011.
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