George R. Curtiss, fair booster, at his desk as editor of the old El
Paso Journal.
Henry Fair association where it was rebuilt and is still in service at the Marshall-Putnam county fair. The grounds are now regularly farmed, race track and all, by George Williamson who purchased the thirty acres.2 In 1948 he sold a strip east and west along the south fence to the school system so their campus might be squared, and bulldozers tore up Dr. King's old dance floor and pushed over the remaining trees, while scrapers smoothed the ground for its intended use as an addition to the athletic field.
Corn and oats now are grown where racing cars once roared and sweating thoroughbreds pounded the turf. Gone is soft-spoken George Green, El Paso Negro who demonstrated what skill and patience could do with horses, and who was an annual exhibitionist at the fair. Jack and Jud Kelts, the inseparable tobacco chewing twins, were always at the fairs, probably wearing police badges or press cards which some prank-playing friend had pinned on them. No longer does the marching military band head northward from Front Street, drawing the crowd straight to the big grandstand.
You who are too young to remember the El Paso Fair have really missed something.
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