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Pasadena Strawberry Festival
18th Annual Texas State Mud Volleyball Championship
May 21, 2005
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History of the Pasadena Strawberry Festival
In 1974 a small group of enthusiastic Pasadena citizens
gathered in a tent on a football practice field for the opening
of the Pasadena Historical Museum and celebrated San Jacinto Day
with the very first Strawberry Festival. Strawberries, famous
for their size and sweetness, were the first big business in
Pasadena, Texas. As many as twenty-eight train carloads of
strawberries a day left Pasadena loading sheds going as far
north as Chicago and Kansas City. These strawberries not only
brought premium prices, but also earned Pasadena the coveted
title "Strawberry Capitol of the South."
Today, with over five hundred volunteers, the Pasadena
Strawberry Festival continues to celebrate Pasadena's heritage
on the 106-acre Pasadena Convention Center and Municipal
Fairgrounds complex and attracts over 45,000 visitors. |
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