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Great Dickens Christmas Fair
Daly City, CA · Holiday
- When
- November 21 – December 20, 2026
- Where
- Cow Palace · Daly City · CA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
Five weekends of Victorian London built inside a livestock arena on the edge of San Francisco, running since 1970. Costumed performers hold the streets in character all day, there is a music hall and a dance floor, and a good share of the visitors turn up dressed for it too.
The history within reach
- Great Dickens Christmas Fairsame spot
Five weekends of Victorian London built inside a livestock arena on the edge of San Francisco, running since 1970.
- The Cow Palace opens0.8 mi
A livestock pavilion begun in the Depression, finished as a wartime depot, and then handed a second life as the only room in the Bay Area big enough for everything else.
Thirty-three minutes, eleven songs, and about twenty-five thousand people in a stadium that held more.
- Sister Act2.6 mi
The failing inner-city parish a lounge singer hides in as a nun, and turns around with a choir that swings, is St.
San Francisco banned new burials in 1900 and evicted its existing dead soon after, and the graves went down the peninsula to a town that incorporated to receive them.