Love A Fair
Posted By thecircusblog on April 5, 2014
Yes it is true, the title of our Maricopa County Fair was “Love A Fair “. It was was somewhat controversial but it worked. Tom Ringhofer, the manager of the fair came up with the title . There was more than one person that thought it was not in good taste but Tom stuck to his guns and the county fair was successful. I was the person that came up with the idea to book C.W. McCall only because of his new release “Convoy”. CB radios were very popular in those days and especially among the truckers. They all knew and were a big fans of C.W. McCall….. so on the day of his arrival at the Phoenix airport I got on the CB and announced that C.W. was coming to town for the Maricopa Fair and he needed a convoy to the fair grounds. I will say this, for the first time in my life I was truly afraid that I had over did it. Truckers from all over the state came to escort C. W. from the airport to the fair grounds. It was a good stunt but did cause a problem with traffic control and the police wanted to know who was responsible. So like a good promoter I dummied up. PS…C.W. McCall rode to the fair in a diesel not a limo.
No one till this day knows who pulled off the biggest day of the Maricopa County Fair….a convoy of trucks and people.
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