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11/19/22, 12:10 PM | #11 | ||
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Owned by the Hayes family until they died in a plane crash 1972 I believe The next owner went bankrupt
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11/20/22, 1:53 PM |
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The patriarch of the Hayes family perished in a plane crash. The family continued ownership until the late seventies when Saad Jabr bought the fairgrounds and promptly ran it into the ground. Big Jim Thompson rescued the facility in 86 and the state has ran it ever since.
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