Yeah, true, even at our county fairs when I was a kid, they were mostly food service trucks. We still referred to them as stalls or stands, though.
On Christmas lights, yeah, you're right, we'd (I'm from Indiana) call them Christmas lights no matter what holiday they were up for, if they were decoating a house, patio, etc. I'm just thinking that the strings of lights you'd see at a carnival/circus, we'd just call strings of lights. I'm not even sure if they use actual Christmas lights, vs. a larger, stronger bulb.
I never actually visited our state fair until after college (because I lived about 300 miles away from it) but our county fair didn't have hootchie-cootchie/burlesque/freakshow tents when I was growing up, as far as I know. I knew what they were, from movies and books, but the closest we had to individual tents that you had to pay to get into was things like "World's smallest horse" and "World's biggest pig" etc. And possibly a fortuneteller.
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Date: 2005-08-14 06:58 pm (UTC)On Christmas lights, yeah, you're right, we'd (I'm from Indiana) call them Christmas lights no matter what holiday they were up for, if they were decoating a house, patio, etc. I'm just thinking that the strings of lights you'd see at a carnival/circus, we'd just call strings of lights. I'm not even sure if they use actual Christmas lights, vs. a larger, stronger bulb.
I never actually visited our state fair until after college (because I lived about 300 miles away from it) but our county fair didn't have hootchie-cootchie/burlesque/freakshow tents when I was growing up, as far as I know. I knew what they were, from movies and books, but the closest we had to individual tents that you had to pay to get into was things like "World's smallest horse" and "World's biggest pig" etc. And possibly a fortuneteller.