county fairs used to be exciting, and have car races - the Rockville Fair 1923, about 10 miles north west of Washington DC

the Rockville Fair auto races

and the nearby car sales tents photos were all taken by Lewis Reed. Not much has changed about car dealerships setting up tents at the county fair, too bad they don't still have these cool old tents

Now the fairgrounds are a football field for the high school

https://reedbrothersdodgehistory.wordpress.com/2018/08/04/looking-back-at-the-montgomery-county-fair-whose-origins-stretch-back-to-1846/