As luck would have it, the Sonoma - Marin County Fair will be taking place in nearby Petaluma ( home of one of the world's great Italian restaurants and setting for the movie, American Graffitti ) at the same time as the activities at the race track once known as Sears Point and Infineon and currently called Sonoma. The fair is celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge (beware if Bruton Smith tries to sell you a bridge this weekend) .
Graziano's - One of the great restaurants on the NASCAR circuit -
http://www.grazianositalianfood.com/Home.aspx
Not to be outdone by that stupid "Lucky Dog" rule over at the racetrack, the Fair has reprised it's Ugliest Dog contest. The dog contest might be more interesting than the race on Bruton's watered down version of the once really neat and challenging road course.
Icky, a Chinese Crested owned by Jon Adler of of Davis, CA, competes in the pedigree class at the 23rd annual World's Ugliest Dog Contest at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma on Friday night June 24, 2011. Stay tuned for mugs of this year's ugly competitors, to be posted shortly after the competition on Friday, June 22, 2012.
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updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:02:07PM