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Ex-by-night games, 2007.
Photo: Local History Room – Saskatoon Public Library – CP 6854
more lavish, often including big-name out-of-town musical acts. The 1967 grandstand featured the always-popular Don Messer and his Islanders, as well as a special Friday night “teen” performance by the Los Angeles-based psychedelic rock band, the Electric Prunes, backed up by Saskatoon’s own Witness Inc., featuring Kenny Shields (later of Streetheart fame).
Not Just a Country Fair Over the years, the Saskatoon Exhibition has changed and changed again. Gone are the free TB X-rays given to all Ex attendees in 1944. The “Indian Village,” which saw people from the Whitecap First Nation dressing in traditional costumes and camping in teepees, has been gone since the 1970s, as have the annual baseball tournaments and the
Photo: Jeff O’Brien
Farm Boys and Girls Camps, discontinued in the ‘60s. The sideshow tents, home to some of the more dubious entertainments, are long gone, and “Midnight Madness” where fairgoers could ride all night, is a fading memory.The name has even changed. In 1970, the Exhibition took on a pioneer days look when it merged with the Pion-era exhibition and became “Saskachimo,” before
being re-named the Saskatoon Prairieland Exhibition in 1979. But overall, the sounds, sights and smells of the Ex have remained much the same. Every year we return to it by the thousands, to eat the food and wander the exhibits, to ride the rides, chance a few dollars on the games and maybe indulge in a few little Tom Thumbs. Jeff O’Brien
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