The highlight of the California State Fair of 1913 was when two locomotives were sent hurdling down the railroad tracks for a head-on collision. Hopefully the engineers were able to jump out before the collision.
This newsreel clip was shot in 1913 at the California State Fair fourteen years before the first talking movie was released.
Evidently at this point in time the fair organizers didn’t know state fairs were for politicians and ladies like Aunt Bea to share her pickles with unsuspecting fairgoers.
