The People’s Fair

I’m bummed I missed the Unilocal booth. I need more Unilocalstick! That would have been the highlight for me.
We came after spending 4 hours at the Larimer Street Chalk Art and the People’s Fair was a let down. The only thing better at the People’s Fair was the people watching. What a bunch of freaks! Made me want to run away screaming. I go to this and the taste of Denver about every 10 years to remind me why I don’t go to it.
The one cool thing about it was there were at least 4 stages and bands playing to give you lots of options. We came down specifically to sign up for the Gorilla Run and the booth didn’t have the ability to sign you up. Granted it was 5pm Sunday afternoon by the time we found the Gorilla Run booth. There was some cool art, but everything seemed to be overpriced for my taste.
I love the smell of funnel cakes in the morning… it reminds me of why I am in Weight Watchers. Man was there a bunch of junk food there. The gyros displays looked great, but didn’t see anyone there to get any. Besides, the annoyance of the ticket for food system is such a pain I don’t like to deal with it.
There was such trash walking around wearing F-​bomb shirts. One guy was manning a booth with a shirt that read, in huge letters «POLITE AS Fxxx.» I don’t recommend this place for kids unless you want to raise a child with more metal in their face than IQ points in their head, more tats than 14ers in Colorado although they might learn some new four letter words and the joys of being escorted by policemen after drinking too much in public.

I am just not a fan of the People’s Fair. I think it’s one of those talked up events and expectations are so high that it ruins it. It’s so crowded and hot, slow moving people with turkey legs, the ticket system for food and drink is in full effect, and by that I mean a total pain in the you know what. The vendors are monotonous and boring. The food isn’t very good. The people watching is good, but after a bit I’m totally annoyed by it all!
I’m not really a fan of the Taste either, so I guess this just isn’t my thing. I know that a lot of people love this fair, so I hate to be a Debbie Downer about it, but this is just my opinion. Each to their own, that makes the world go round.

A fair is a fair and a fair in denver is generally always the same!
Bike denver is generally there with a «corral» to watch/​store your bike — woot!
There is a lovely wine garden in the middle! Nice place to relax — it has been near the stage that usually has jazz and swing music. Mmmmm…
Food is via tickets — that is totally annoying — i know it is how they make money — but seriously do away with the whole ticket than.
This fair does not generally have as many vendors as The Taste — but that means — you can walk holding hands, not be smooshed between people trying to see what is in the next tent — seriously it is too hot for that nonsense!
Lots of food, drink, shopping and people watching options!
Go, enjoy and support!

Other years it seemed to have alot more rides. And the prices on the tickets have stayed the same but the vendors have been requiring more for food and drinks. Guess the economy is hitting everyone. As always though the Vendors dont disappoint and their prices arent bad at all. And live music and stuff for the kids is good.

Been there every year for … well … years!
I would go here to buy things for Dad who has everything… and usually found something he never heard of.
Yea, tickets are a pain but I figured its a security rule … instead of having lots of stands that can be robbed, only a few that are watched closely.
Will take my nephew this year… and lots of money of course.

Pretty darn trashy, and too expensive. This has the same gimmick as Taste of Colorado (making you buy tickets for food instead of paying cash directly to the vendors) but without the local restaurants. The «arts» and crafts booths hawk the kind of crappy stuff that you would find in a backwoods craft festival (believe me, I know: I grew up in the backwoods). Political booths abound, and most of them represent crazy people and ideologies. It’s hot and crowded and generally miserable. I love fairs, but this one is just not worth it.

I have always loved to people watch.
From my school’s campus to the mall, watching the random people, we call the general public, is quite entertaining.
however, NOTHING was more wild than interesting than those who chose to walk the streets of the People’s Fair.
Miss Laura L (aka my sister!) and I had a cute Unilocal booth, perfectly stationed directly next to the kettle corn (yummmm!) and the beer cart (perfection!) and seemed to attract a fun yet odd crowd. Here is just a few things we laid our eyes on:
1. sunburns galore. me included. boo.
2. sweaty brows. ew. however, our Unilocal fans and wrist bans came to the rescue!
3. tons of children with painted faces. awkward.
4. overweight men and women carrying turkey legs, funnel cakes, margaritas, and cigarettes. (some had them all.)
5.angry drunk people. one specifically who demanded my bottle of water, which was not a prize our wheel o Unilocal offered. after her yelling at me, i said «thanks» and turned away, before she tripped and moved on to the next booth. blah.
Fabulous fun=people watching, visits from Unilocalers… who brought beer, and over 1100 sign ups for our newsletter. YAY!
i am one happy Unilocaler :)

The People’s Fair is by far the best fair for watching, you know, people. You will not fail to see at least one of these things:
1. FFF — as some like to call forced family fun
2. At least someone being carted away for imbibing a little too much
3. Some variation of a) a mime b) chain mail clothing c) cheerleaders d) lots of giant turkey legs, fried twinkies and kettle corn
It’s fantastic. Lots of food to choose from, plenty of arts and crafts to see (I was a big fan of the hair spray painting booth), music, dancing, jewelry, you name it.
My one complaint was about the music. Although I think it’s awesome to have so many musical selections in one small area, it’s also a downfall — it’s one small area and everything kind of runs together.
Also, can grown ups do those aerial stunts I saw those little kids doing all day? I want to do that.

Hands down the best part of the People’s Fair was getting free chapstick at the Unilocal booth. It’s tangerine flavored (OMG yum!) and it has SPF.
The rest was cool, too. I liked how the booths were grouped by genre, as it were. The religious groups together, the political groups together, the artists together.
Thumbs up to Bike Denver for setting up a free bike parking corral.
Minus one star for the stupid ticket system. Why can’t I just give the man eight bucks for tacos? Why do I have to go buy tickets and then trade the tickets for tacos?

I finally got the chance to go to the People’s Fair this weekend. Normally every year it comes around I usually have to work, so it has never worked out in my favor until this year. Great music, food, vendors and people. There is certainly quite the mix of people here which makes it a great event to come to. It’s definitely a great event to do some serious people watching. There is a lot to see, hear, taste and buy, no matter your tastes. Who can resist an event as great as this that costs you nothing to attend? Bring money for food tickets and for that one item you know you just can’t pass up from one of the many arts and crafts vendors along the way. This to me is the tune up event to the Taste of Colorado later this summer in terms of food. I did stop by to see our fearless and newly engaged Unilocal leader, Tiffany to say hello. I’m glad I was able to finally make it to the People’s Fair. Hopefully I will have the weekend off next year to do it all again.

What a blast! So many booths, yummy vendors and fun for all ages. I guess it was a little slow this year but last year brought nearly ½ million people to this festival. I scored a sic cowboy hat and chilled under the shade in the wine garden. There was so much going on it was almost overwhelming. I guess the more the merrier and where else can you get away with being D.I.P.