West Side Nut Club Fall Festival
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 approximately 150,000 people each year.
The West Side Nut Club cordons off four blocks of West Franklin Street for rides and food booths. Paul Harvey once remarked that only Mardi Gras in New Orleans is larger than the Fall Festival.
The festival was first held in 1924.
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