Delphos Canal Days

From Delphos Canal Days Website:

Delphos Canal Days is celebrating its 59th year as a small town, end-of-the-summer premier festival. The mission for Canal Day is "to plan a fun filled positive family festival for Delphos and the surrounding communities" and with the help of hundreds of community volunteers and sponsors we get that done.

Canals Days originated in the 1950's as a Dollar Days/ Car Show Festival with a huge parade of old classic cars (1927 and older). Merchants dressed in old fashion pioneer style clothes to lure the customers in to shop for sales. It was great for the business and lots of fun too. Downtown Delphos was booming with retail stores at that time and everyone looked forward to that once-a-year Old Fashioned Bargain Days.