How many years have you been going to the State Fair of Texas? Ten? Twenty? Thirty?

If you think you have a record, you might want to think twice. Eighty years is the number to beat.

Eighty-five-year-old David White has been going to the fair for eight decades and counting.

"Five years old," said White of his first fair. "I really don't remember anything about it, but my parents told me I was there."

And if you take the Dallas native's parents at their word, he's had one of the longest streaks of state fair attendance.

Meeting a governor at eight

"I believe I was eight years old," said White, referring to the first fair he remembers. "I met Governor Allan Shivers at the front gate."

The lifelong Texan was hooked.

"It's the best thing going," White said. "Everybody should go to the

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