Pictures from the 1981 Banana Festival in
Fulton, Kentucky / South Fulton, Tennessee

The Chamber of Commerce welcomes you to the Banana Festival.

Banana Festival banner. Keep on truckin’ Mr. Banana.

Even the fire hydrants get into the mood.

Free Chiquita and Dole bananas are handed out on the street.

The local dairy company that makes the 1-ton pudding puts the finishing touches on before it’s hauled out for the parade.

Everybody loves a parade! The Kentucky Dairy Princess rides on the float with the 1-ton banana pudding, pulled along by a tractor.

Closeup of the float. Signs list ingredients as: 1,900 cups of Turner’s Boiled Custard; 29,000 vanilla wafers; 3,760 Dole bananas.

The 1-ton banana pudding! It arrives at the park to appropriate oohs and aahs as lines of festival-goers begin forming.

Great legs always help sell a product, or make the wait in line for your serving of pudding more enjoyable.

The long line inches forward towards nirvana.

A ton of pudding disappears quickly.

The last dregs of the pudding are doled out as Ol’ Glory waves in the background, blessing the festivities with life, liberty, & the love of bananas.

“The Remains of the Day.” The rumor that the title of the famed novel and movie were inspired by the Banana Festival is probably incorrect.

Nothing to do with bananas, just a nice shot of the full moon over the carnival rides at the Festival.

These last four classic pictures of the proud citizens of Fulton posing with their bananas at the Festival are smaller versions of the large ones hanging in honored glory in the Banana Wall of Fame section of 101 Bananas.com.