For most, the Pensacola Interstate Fair is the midway with its gravity-bending rides that send riders screaming and twisting their stomachs into knots, or the cacophony of scents wafting through the grounds luring visitors to Pronto dogs, turkey legs, and a mélange of Hispanic, Jamaican and Caribbean food dishes. The fair is funnel cakes , bumper cars and trying to win the big stuffed creature on gaming row, where midway workers challenge you to pop balloons, or toss a basketball into a hoop. Never as easy as it seems.
But for many others, the fair is completely different. On the north side of the fairgrounds Sunday evening, it was a whole different scene, and a whole different type of smells for sure. It’s the livestock area, where country kids toss a football in a dusty area between the cattle pens and cleaning areas. Other kids played in a mound of stored sawdust used throughout the fair’s livestock area.
Other kids brushed, combed and gussied up their cows readying them for Sunday’s big show − the Pensacola Interstate Fair’s Prettiest Cow competition, where cows are not judged on the breed specific merits, but on how well the cow and its young handler command the runway, which was actually the open-air livestock arena at the fair…