West Side Nut Club Fall Festival
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Evansville's West Side Nut Club Fall Festival is held the first full week of every October on Franklin street in Evansville, Indiana by Evansville's West Side Nut Club. It draws nearly 150,000 people. [1]
The West Side Nut Club cordons off four blocks of West Franklin Street for rides and nearly 200 booths, making it the second largest street festival in the United States. Paul Harvey once remarked that only Mardi Gras in New Orleans is larger than the Fall Festival. [2]
The main attraction of the festival is the food, with offerings of standards like corn dogs and funnel cakes to the more unusual such as chocolate-covered grasshoppers, brain sandwiches, and alligator stew. All booths are run by non-profit organizations.
The festival was first held in 1924 and has featured an appearance by Minnie Pearl in 1947.
In 2007, there were ~80,000 persons who attended the first day of the Fall Festival.
