Any of you get to experience some of the good ole day festivals.?

Todd brought up Sea-fair and it was good back in the day but still fairly regulated.


However.........

Did you ever attend the Tri City boat races back in the 80's???

Apple Blossom in Wenatchee????

Lake Chelan on the 4th???

True shindigs of the highest magnitude.


On a smaller note perhaps Salmo remembers this???


OR Perhaps the D00 WA Ditty in Maytown back around 1990ish??


Oh mercy.

Mason County Forest Festival was awesome when I was a kid. Lots of tough loggers doing tough logger stuff and a big parade.

I haven't been in years.

Salmon Days in Issaquah USED to be fun in the 80s and early 90s....

some of the hot saw competitions were fun to go with my dad back then as well...

Still going, but we always had Puyallup Fair days as a kid growing up.
You always got a half day off and got tickets to the fair.

Grid Go Round in Lincoln Bowl in Tacoma always started the HS football season for the city league schools.
Really too bad they [Bleeeeep!] that one up.
SF

I know its not WA, but Texas State Fair is on my bucket list. It sounds insane and probably about as unregulated as one can get by today’s standards.

Buckley log show can still be a time.

I've been once and it is totally bonkers insane. If it can be deep fried, you can find it there. The people watching is worth the price of admission alone - so many fat people with many HOT farmers daughters mixed in. And then you have the Red River Rivalry at the same time. It's NUTS!

Deep fried Coke for the win. Get in my mouth now!

Was that first video the Skok opener?

10/10 lol

Apple Blossom Festival back in the day was EPIC! We'd caravan over from Lake Stevens and take bets on who all would spend a night in jail.

I grew up near Wenatchee. Apple Blossom was always huge, as was local fairs. 4th of July at Chelan was fun too.

Nudestock.


The PNW btw is not a great place to be a nudist. Too cold = stack of dimes = not impressing the ladies.

Jubilee days White Center (Rat city)

I grew up in Olympia and Capital Lakefair was the bomb!

Agreed on lakefair

The Forks Fatty Fest was always a big ole rigmarole and a real hootenanny!!

Strawberry Festival when I lived in England was nothing short of epic.
Three days straight of dancing and partying,
eating molly and shrooms like they were vitamins...those were the days.

Was this before or after you became a trained assassin?

Oi you bloody cuvt! Is a damn good time innit

Rainbow Valley was lame.

Lakefair was lamer.

Sky River Rock Festival, scaled down versions of Woodstock, those festivals were the shizzle! Naked girls dancing up near the stage. Naked girls dancing way back from the stage. It was sorta' like the girls forgot to bring any clothes. And when it began to cool down at night, the party heated up.

The secret is out. Salmo is actually Bob Weir!!

Apple Blossom was crazy in the 80's when I was a teenager. As a young kid in the 70's I remember when the H.E.'s would thunder into town, as they would stay at a camp near Rock Island next to the Highway. It has ebbed n flowed through the 90's (some wild times with girls even then too).

Chelan would get crazy on Memorial Day too. I remember when the cops literally lost all control, 88 or 89? I guess the same thing happened at A.B. too, then they started changing the cruising directions, etc. But, when phuktards start shooting people, something has to happen unfortunately. Several of us should have went to jail in Chelan one year, at Campbell's as we were part of a brawl. Talked our way outa that chit show, '97 I think. I was fully prepared for a ride to the crossbar but the cop let our side go. We jumped in my boat and bailed back to the house after that.

I never made the Tri Cities boat races but I always wanted to! I heard those were insane. Good buddy got into it with Hanauer one night, traded a couple of punches, supposedly over (his) a woman? It's a great story from what I can remember! I couldn't do it justice anymore. I'll have to get him to tell me again, I've heard it from 2 different people, so pretty sure it's legit. Glad I lived through those times! Did some dumb chit, and thankfully nobody else got hurt!

Lots of legit comments here.
Grew up in Oly and rented a room in the Gov House for the weekend every year during Lakefair. Parade side of course.
Roommates in college were all from Ephrata.
We hit all the festivals hard and tore it up.
Never went to jail?
Chit I can't say that.

Rainbow valley was chitty. Lol

for some reason I don't remember Rainbow Valley, lol

Great topic WDFW.

Local we had Viking Fest, Kingston 4th, Whaling Days, & Chief Seattle Days. Always Seafair Hydro and Blue Angels.

When I was in college I went to Waterbust, Apple Blossom, and Tri Cities show us your [Bleeeeep!] a couple of times.

Brett, EWU and the Hagy Clan by chance?

I never said I didn't go to jail, just not on those specific weekends!

Cinco De Mayo at the UW/Greek Row was pretty stoopid in the early 90's ,but that was just a local event. I always wanted to go to End Fest in the mid-late 90's, but it was right around the last weekend in August to fish before Dove/Grouse season if I remember right?

I went in Pullman.

Slough, Lovitt, Dehouge, Burke, Peterson were a few of the Ephrata names.

The strawberry festival in Marysville was good.

They shut down the town and had go-cart races on the city streets, it was a long course, it went all over town.

The were also tricycle races.

You got a tricycle and a local tribal member, he would ride the tricycle from tavern to tavern and slam down a beer or two. Again, it was a long course.

First one to the finish line won.

The tricycle race was phased out 40+ years ago for some reason.

Snohomish Kla Ha Ya Days is pretty cool...for the couple of times I've been to it. Chill enviro and great chow. Awesome smoked fish hot off the smoker.

I used to take the kids to that in the 90s. We'd pick strawberries when the strawberry field was still in the flats south of town and the kids would eat one for every 5 they put in the basket. I guess we owe Beringer a couple bucks. Those were seriously the best strawberries I ever ate.

And the kids would ride trikes in the parade and all but no booze involved at that time...except for a beer I'd pour into my coffee mug.

I lived in Snohomish for 22 years and never went. Never even drove through town when it was going on.

Sky river rock festival and ligher than air fair, 1968. What a trip that was! Just out of the Army and looking to PARTY!

Fog Festival in Ocean Shores

Good call on the Fog festival.
Totally forgot.
It was good.