The National Orange Show Festival is an annual

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held in

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, California since 1911 to promote the

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. At the height of its popularity between 1960 and the mid-1980s, the event ran a full two weeks during the month of March and featured displays from most counties in California. The show was cancelled for five years, from 1942 to 1946, due to

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, and since 2020 caused by

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concerns, although it went virtual. Due to a changing economic environment, the show has been downsized considerably with a local community emphasis, instead of a national or state one, and is now a weekend event.

References

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External links

Image of a woman emerging from a giant orange at the center of the Redlands display at the National Orange Show, San Bernardino, 1935.

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