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CONTENTS General information and schedule of events Lodi Grape Festival honors nation with patriotic theme, ‘America the Beautiful’ Mural captures festival’s patriotic theme Fair talent guaranteed to rock Lodi with funk, alternative, blues Don and Jean Phillips head this year’s parade as grand marshals Festival parade comes from months of planning, effort Patriotic festival theme turns Grape Pavilion into a hall of flags Festival presents chance to taste fine local wines Good eats, from snacks to desserts, can be found at the festival Bobbie Norton: Invaluable behind-the-scenes person Answers to Grape Festival trivia questions Butler Amusements brings fun, games to Grape Festival Step right up and win a stuffed bulldog! Talented people make murals with grapes Hewlett-Packard brings technology exhibit to town Swan Brothers bring comedy circus to festival once again Don’t forget to visit the petting zoo Grape Festival features tobacco-free zones for fair-goers Festival Web site tells what to see, do 2002 president Caroline Lange has years of festival experience Board of directors plans for four-day event all year 2001 Grape Festival carried on despite terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, D.C. From Tokay to today: Evolution of the Grape Festival |
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Answers to Grape Festival trivia questions 1. 1907. 2. The Tokay Carnival. 3. Despite good and enthusiastic crowds, the carnival ran up a considerable debt. 4. 1934. 5. The Mustachio club which was formed by Police Chief Clarence S. Jackson in the spring of 1934 in response to a grape pickers strike in 1933 which saw violence in the fields with at least one person killed. In contrast, 1934 was a year of labor peace with an abundant harvest which called for a celebration . Thus was born the Grape Festival. 6. 1949. 7. John Garth, a muralist from San Francisco, was hired to do the painting. 8. Garth was paid $5,000 for his work. 9. No doubt about it — the most “explosive” event in Grape Festival history took place in 1937 when Police Chief Clarence S. Jackson, head of the Mustachio Club which staged the festival, recreated the eruption of Mount. Vesuvius and the destruction of Pompeii at Lodi Lake. 10. Chief Jackson got Hollywood set designers Leon DeVolo and L.D. Durman to come to Lodi to create replicas of both the Roman city of Pompeii and the cause of its destruction, the volcano Mount Vesuvius. A total of 10 floats were also constructed to depict different scenes of the ancient calamity. When all the floats had been launched onto the lake, the fireworks erupted just like — just like a volcano. 11. No one but Police Chief Clarence s. Jackson. 12. Bertha DeAlmado was crowned Queen Zinfandel of the Tokay Carnival. She later moved to San Francisco where she was a successful author. 13. Marie Graffigna Bettencourt and she received her crown from no less a personage than Gov. Frank Merriman before a crowd of more than 8,000 people at the Lodi athletic field. 14. Queen Marie Graffigna Bettencourt won with the still unconfirmed, but nevertheless astounding, total of 19,450,500 votes based upon vote coupons passed out by the Lodi Business Men’s Association to customers who brought at least 50 cents worth of merchandise. 15. Besides Queen Marie Graffigna Bettencourt, the other members of the 1934 Royal Court, selected as top runner ups in the “voting” were: Kathryn Graham, Betty Brinson, Peggi Cellini, Laura Ortiz and Rose Scaletta. 16. Angela Parises Brusa. 17. Joining Queen Angela Parises Brusa in wearing the crowns as members of the Lodi Grape Festival’s last royal court were: Lisa Lieder, Tracy Reiswig, Carmen Rice and DeLaura Wakai. 18. Grape Festival officials at the time felt the interest in the queen contest was falling off as possible contestants became more interested in school activities, working, etc. and became more and more reluctant to commit the necessary to meet the needs of the crowded calendar of events which the queen had to handle on behalf of the Grape Festival during the year. 19. There are no official plans on the part of the Grape Festival to bring back the queen contest, however, there still exists a hardy and determined band of monarchists who keep bringing the matter back up for consideration. 20. Comedian and actor Joe E. Brown. 21. The festival has no livestock. While the history is a bit blurred, it may have come about through a deal struck with officials of the San Joaquin Fair to let that event include livestock. 22. It’s right here in Lodi. In San Joaquin County, the Grape Festival is the county fair due to a declaration by the Board of Supervisors in 1941. The San Joaquin Fair is an agricultural district fair. 23. Nadine Aberle. 24. Butler Amusements. 25. 90 seconds. 26. The stomp red grapes. 27. 1958. 28. According to newspaper accounts, some 100,000 folks were on hand and that number, in turn, caused the sponsoring Mustachio Club to call for the festival to become a yearly event. 29. An estimated 125,000 people attended the three-day Grape Festival in 1935. 30. A good reason for the huge crowd was that festival officials worked with the public relations office of the Southern Pacific Railroad and got the line to feature an article and photographs about the upcoming festival in the menus in the dining cars of their trains that ran through six western states. 31. 89,000, according to Grape Festival officials. 32. The Grape Festival was expanded to its present four-day format in 1976. Home | News | Sports | Business | Features | Opinion | Obituaries |Classifieds | Archives |
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