The Chamber of Commerce welcomes you to the Banana Festival.
Banana Festival banner. Keep on truckin' Mr. Banana.
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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. The signs on the two sides of the float list the ingredients of the pudding: 1,900 cups of Turner's Boiled Custard; 29,000 vanilla wafers; and 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." I believe the rumor that the title of the famed novel and movie were inspired by the Banana Festival is probably an exageration. |
Nothing to do with bananas, just a nice shot of the full moon over the carnival rides at the Festival. Hand held, no tripod, probably at about 1/4 second. |
These last four classic pictures of the proud citizens of Fulton posing with their bananas at the Festival are
smaller versions of the larger ones hanging in honored glory on 101 Bananas' Banana Wall of Fame section.
