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DEL MAR, Calif. (July 5, 2009, 11:30 p.m.) – The San Diego County Fair, presented by Albertsons|Sav-on, wrapped up the 22-day event with an all-time attendance record of 1,274,442 guests who enjoyed the “Music Mania” theme, attractions, shows, exhibits, food and rides. The previous attendance record was 1,265,997, set in 2007.
The largest one-day attendance during the 2009 Fair was 88,087 on Friday, July 3. It ranked as the eighth-largest day in the Fair’s history. The largest single-day attendance ever was Friday, July 3, 1998, with 101,867.
“We want to thank everyone for coming and hope they had a great start to the summer at the San Diego County Fair,” said Tim Fennell, CEO and General Manager of the Del Mar Fairgrounds. “We are pleased to provide our community and families with an opportunity to have fun and play for a day at the Fair during a difficult economy. Because of these challenging times, we were proud to present a venue that provided a great value for our guests. But the Fair is really about people and teamwork, and again we had an excellent team for the 2009 San Diego County Fair.”
The San Diego County Fair is the fifth largest fair in the nation and is the largest annual event in San Diego County. Final revenue and numbers will be available in about one week.
Some preliminary numbers are in for the 2009 San Diego County Fair “Music Mania:”
Facts & Figures from the 2009 San Diego County Fair
Total Attendance: 1,274,442
Highest Single Day Attendance: 88,087 on Friday, July 3. (8th largest day in history)
Food Facts:
Zucchini Weenies from Chicken Charlie’s: 8,000 sold.
Deep Fried S’mores: 10,000 sold
Deep Fried Twinkies: 13,000 sold
Deep Fried Oreos: 28,000 sold
Deep Fried White Castle Cheese Burgers: 5,000 sold.
Deep Fried Frogs Legs 2,000 lbs. sold
Deep Fried Avocados: 6,000 sold
Mexican Funnel Cakes: 12,000 sold
Apple Fries: 2,000 sold
Chocolate Bacon: 20,000 pieces sold
Pignotti’s Pasta - Meatball Sliders, more than 5,200 sold.
Indian Fry Breads: sold 7,000 all variations
Australian Battered Potatoes used over 15,000 lbs. of potatoes
Top 10 Food Vendors
Golden West BBQ
Brett's Juicy
Chicken Charlie II
Chuckwagon
Chicken Charlie I
Juicy's Outlaw
Australian Foods
Brander I (Donuts)
Fruit Caboose, Avenue location
Capitol Cookery
Additional Food information:
The biggest day for food sales was Friday, July 3, totaling: $886,000.00
Chicken Charlie’s used almost 3,000 gallons of propane, a record!
Chicken Charlie’s sales were up 72 percent. Several other food booths recorded increases of 40 percent or higher.
The Burger Joint used: 5,000 lbs. Ground Beef; 8,000 lbs. Potatoes; 6,000 lbs. Sugar;
2,000 lbs. Pork.
Special Events
220 pies consumed at the Pie Eating Contest
1540 pieces of pie consumed at the Pie Eating Contest
807 participants in our Flag Raising program (Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts)
81 Girl Scout & Boy Scout troops
500 jalapeños consumed at the three Jalapeño Pepper Eating Contests
44 jalapeño peppers eaten by the winner
24 participants in the Jalapeño Pepper Eating Contests (3)
420 contestants in the Best Animal Noise & misc. contests
40 contestants in the Frozen T-shirt Contests (3)
2100 participants in Three O’Clock Fun (daily)
41 participants in our Family Look-Alike Contest (1)
140 participants in Kazoo that Tune (4 contests)
Other Fun Facts:
85 total rides – 40 adults, 45 kids
Most popular ride - Crazy Mouse
Food stands – 100
Commercial stands– 600
Fireworks America out of Lakeside, California designed our 4th of July Fireworks Show.
The 20 minute display consisted of:
300 – 2” shells
430 – 3” shells
108 – 4” shells
116 – 5” shells
72 – 6” shells
22 – 8” shells
And 2,000 miniature shells.
A record day for paid parking: Friday, July 3, 2009 at 16,287 vehicles
Web site
Visits to the Fair Web site: More than 500,000 from June 1 through July 4, with more than 2.1 million page views.
Visits to Fair’s new mobile-phone Web site, http://m.sdfair.com: More than 14,000, 73 percent from iPhones and iPhone clones.
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