1911 ^    First National Orange Show ^

1911 ^    National Orange Show, citrus tent, first year ^

1912 ^    Second National Orange Show ^

1912 ^    Santa Fe Railroad citrus "feature" display

1913 ^    Third National Orange Show ^

1913 ^    Pacific Electric Railway citrus "feature" display

1914 ^    Fourth National Orange Show ^

1914 ^    Santa Fe Railroad citrus "feature" display

1914 ^    Santa Fe Railroad citrus "feature" display ^

1916 ^  Sixth National Orange Show ^

1916 ^    Fontana citrus "feature" display

1916 ^    Lindsay ("Pioneer Stage Coach and Four-horse Team") citrus "feature" display

1916 ^    Lindsay citrus "rack" display
 

1917 ^    Seventh National Orange Show ^

1918 ^    Eighth National Orange Show ^

1918 ^    San Bernardino County ("Steadily Forging Ahead") citrus "feature" display

1921 ^    Eleventh National Orange Show ^

1921 ^    Eleventh National Orange Show ^

1923 ^    Thirteenth National Orange Show ^

1926 ^    Sixteenth National Orange Show ^

1927 ^    citrus "feature" displays

1928 ^    National Orange Show ^

1928 ^    Fontana citrus "rack" display

1928 ^    Santa Monica citrus "feature" display

c.1928 ^    Los Angeles County citrus "feature" display (detail)

1930 ^    Twentieth National Orange Show ^

1930 ^    Corona citrus "feature" display

1931 ^    Twenty-first National Orange Show ^

c. 1932 ^    Los Angeles County citrus "feature" display (detail)

1934 ^    Escondido citrus "feature" display (detail)

c.1935 ^    Riverside citrus "feature" display (detail)

1936 ^    Twenty-sixth National Orange Show (ticket)

1937 ^    Twenty-seventh National Orange Show ^

1937 ^    Sunkist citrus "feature" display

1939 ^    Westinghouse commercial / industrial display

1941 ^    Redlands citrus "feature" display

1942 ^    CANCELLED due to World War II...the next National Orange Show would be held in 1947

1948 ^  Highland ("Opening Day Fishing Season") citrus "feature" display

1948 ^  Escondido citrus "feature" display

1949 ^    Southern California Edison commercial / industrial display

1949 ^    Southern California Edison commercial / industrial display (detail)

1949 ^    Pasadena citrus "feature" display

1953 ^    Los Angeles County ("Washington's Birthday") citrus "feature" display

1953 ^    San Diego County ("Cinco de Mayo") citrus "feature" display

1953 ^    Orange County (California's Famous Days") citrus "feature" display

1955 ^    Fortieth National Orange Show ^

1959 ^    Forty-fourth National Orange Show ^

1911 ^    National Orange Show tent, first year

1912 ^    National Orange Show souvenir stand

1913 ^    "Orange Trail" entrance to the midway

1916 ^    Entrance to National Orange Show tent

c.1923 ^    National Orange Show grounds entrance at Mill st & Arrowhead ave

1924 ^   Drawing of new  permanent exhibition hall, at Mill st & Arrowhead ave

c.1925 ^    National Orange Show Building, San Bernardino, California

May 1939 ^

1949 ^    ...after the fire

New exhibitions building

c.1958 ^    National Orange Show fun zone

c.1965 ^    National Orange Show grounds

c. 1927 ^    Welcome...National...Orange Show...Every February

c. 1927 ^

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1929 ^

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1934 ^

1938 ^    National Orange Show Citrus Queen, Dorothy Short

1948 ^    Queen Dona Hughes

c.1967 ^  Governor Reagan with Queen Suzanne Fromm

• A SELECTION from among tens of thousands of references to the National Orange Show, in the San Bernardino Sun newspaper:

1929 ^  Dolores del Rio postal card

• THE NATIONAL ORANGE SHOW WOULD SUSPEND OPERATIONS FOR THE DURATION OF WORLD WAR II.

"I'm probably in that picture, somewhere...we told my parents we were going, and they said okay, but be sure to come back before dark...there were big pieces of ash floating in the air...the smoke was so BLACK!" [ben sakoguchi] 

c.1949 ^    Benji Sakoguchi

                                                  Ben Sakoguchi   acrylic on canvas   2008 ^