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"I went to that fire! We saw the smoke, or someone said, 'The Orange Show's on fire!' We all walked down there, and it was raging!!" [ben sakoguchi]
The 1911 National Orange Show was held in a tent, on a vacant corner, two blocks north and west of Meadowbrook Park.
From 1916 on, the permanent site of the National Orange Show was six blocks south of the park.
"I went to that fire! We saw the smoke, or someone said, 'The Orange Show's on fire!' We all walked down there, and it was raging!!" [ben sakoguchi]
The 1911 National Orange Show was held in a tent, on a vacant corner, two blocks north and west of Meadowbrook Park.
From 1916 on, the permanent site of the National Orange Show was six blocks south of the park.
1911 ^ First National Orange Show ^
1911 ^ National Orange Show, citrus tent, first year ^
1912 ^ Second National Orange Show ^
1912 ^ Santa Fe Railroad citrus "feature" display
1913 ^ Third National Orange Show ^
1913 ^ Pacific Electric Railway citrus "feature" display
1914 ^ Fourth National Orange Show ^
1914 ^ Santa Fe Railroad citrus "feature" display
1914 ^ Santa Fe Railroad citrus "feature" display ^
1916 ^ Sixth National Orange Show ^
1916 ^ Fontana citrus "feature" display
1916 ^ Lindsay ("Pioneer Stage Coach and Four-horse Team") citrus "feature" display
1916 ^ Lindsay citrus "rack" display
1917 ^ Seventh National Orange Show ^
1918 ^ Eighth National Orange Show ^
1918 ^ San Bernardino County ("Steadily Forging Ahead") citrus "feature" display
1921 ^ Eleventh National Orange Show ^
1921 ^ Eleventh National Orange Show ^
1923 ^ Thirteenth National Orange Show ^
1926 ^ Sixteenth National Orange Show ^
1927 ^ citrus "feature" displays
1928 ^ National Orange Show ^
1928 ^ Fontana citrus "rack" display
1928 ^ Santa Monica citrus "feature" display
c.1928 ^ Los Angeles County citrus "feature" display (detail)
1930 ^ Twentieth National Orange Show ^
1930 ^ Corona citrus "feature" display
1931 ^ Twenty-first National Orange Show ^
c. 1932 ^ Los Angeles County citrus "feature" display (detail)
1934 ^ Escondido citrus "feature" display (detail)
c.1935 ^ Riverside citrus "feature" display (detail)
1936 ^ Twenty-sixth National Orange Show (ticket)
1937 ^ Twenty-seventh National Orange Show ^
1937 ^ Sunkist citrus "feature" display
1939 ^ Westinghouse commercial / industrial display
1941 ^ Redlands citrus "feature" display
1942 ^ CANCELLED due to World War II...the next National Orange Show would be held in 1947
1948 ^ Highland ("Opening Day Fishing Season") citrus "feature" display
1948 ^ Escondido citrus "feature" display
1949 ^ Southern California Edison commercial / industrial display
1949 ^ Southern California Edison commercial / industrial display (detail)
1949 ^ Pasadena citrus "feature" display
1953 ^ Los Angeles County ("Washington's Birthday") citrus "feature" display
1953 ^ San Diego County ("Cinco de Mayo") citrus "feature" display
1953 ^ Orange County (California's Famous Days") citrus "feature" display
1955 ^ Fortieth National Orange Show ^
1959 ^ Forty-fourth National Orange Show ^
1911 ^ National Orange Show tent, first year
1912 ^ National Orange Show souvenir stand
1913 ^ "Orange Trail" entrance to the midway
1916 ^ Entrance to National Orange Show tent
c.1923 ^ National Orange Show grounds entrance at Mill st & Arrowhead ave
1924 ^ Drawing of new permanent exhibition hall, at Mill st & Arrowhead ave
c.1925 ^ National Orange Show Building, San Bernardino, California
May 1939 ^
1949 ^ ...after the fire
New exhibitions building
c.1958 ^ National Orange Show fun zone
c.1965 ^ National Orange Show grounds
c. 1927 ^ Welcome...National...Orange Show...Every February
c. 1927 ^
1927 ^
1929 ^
1930 ^
1934 ^
1938 ^ National Orange Show Citrus Queen, Dorothy Short
1948 ^ Queen Dona Hughes
c.1967 ^ Governor Reagan with Queen Suzanne Fromm
• A SELECTION from among tens of thousands of references to the National Orange Show, in the San Bernardino Sun newspaper:
1929 ^ Dolores del Rio postal card
• THE NATIONAL ORANGE SHOW WOULD SUSPEND OPERATIONS FOR THE DURATION OF WORLD WAR II.
"I'm probably in that picture, somewhere...we told my parents we were going, and they said okay, but be sure to come back before dark...there were big pieces of ash floating in the air...the smoke was so BLACK!" [ben sakoguchi]
c.1949 ^ Benji Sakoguchi
Ben Sakoguchi acrylic on canvas 2008 ^