"Americans have had a love affair with their automobiles that dates back to the turn of the century and it's stronger than ever today. I…{"id":7085,"date":"2015-07-24T14:38:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T21:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pomonaswapmeet.com\/blog\/?p=7085"},"modified":"2015-07-24T14:38:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T21:38:45","slug":"celebrating-40-great-years-in-pomona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pomonaswapmeet.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/24\/celebrating-40-great-years-in-pomona\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating 40 Great Years in Pomona"},"content":{"rendered":"“Americans have had a love affair with their automobiles that dates back to the turn of the century and it’s stronger than ever today. I bought my first Model T in 1960 and it opened a new world to me.” \u00a0 \u00a0– George W. Cross III<\/h4>\n
On August 3, 1975, George W. Cross III held the first Pomona Swap Meet. George was an automobile enthusiast and he wanted to create a centralized meeting place,\u00a0where\u00a0gearheads could come together to share their hobby and find the parts they needed for their projects. That first show in the summer of ’75 attracted over 4,000 people. We’ve grown a lot since then, with hundreds of thousands of people coming to Pomona every year, but we’ve never wavered from George’s original vision. Forty years on, we remain committed to the hobby,\u00a0to classic cars and their owners, and to our employees.<\/p>\n
You can read more about our history here<\/a><\/strong>. As we celebrate our past, and look forward to our future, we thought we would share some of our favorite pictures from Pomona with you.<\/p>\n\n\t\t