I and others used to use The Penny Lady as the meeting point. We used to meet about noon. Pending the weather I should be there at opening time Friday. And it's buy and scoot for me. I'm generally gone by 1PM. But the mixed weather forecast may cause me to delay my arrival. Someone pick a spot. If I'm still there I'll show up.
Went to the show. The good news is that it wasn't crowded which made it easy to belly up to most tables. The bad news is that it wasn't crowded which means the dealers aren't doing the expected business. The coin I went to get had already been sold. Plan B (getting missing Early Commems) failed too. They don't seem to be in favor currently. Only thing I get was the latest edition of Snow's guide to FE's and IHC's. Got $50 off as a show special. Plus Rick signed them.
Was anyone else totally confused by the change in venue? I knew from the website that it was in a different section of the convention hall, but wow... we parked near the entrance of where they *used* to have it... and found that we literally could not have parked farther away from the new location if we had TRIED! lol
I knew about the new location but still parked in my usual spot. The walk was good exercise. This happens about once every two years, i.e., about once for every 6 shows.
I remember back in 2007 I was working for the Irish Dairy board . We would do a Christmas show in June....for products super markets would buy for the up and coming holiday season. We had the same building as the Whitman show.....only double the square footage. It was fun trying to get into the loading zone in the loading dock area due to coin dealers trying to break down and close the show. I had more that one run in with security on the loading docks. He was a Barney Fife type.... aka Don knots. After all we had quite a large sum of money involved in both perishable and non perishable food plus the other vendors who set up at the show. He finally calmed down when I assured him if he didn't he be placed in a reefer trailer and I Personality would lower the temp to below zero so he cool off and change his attitude. A few years ago I attended another natural and organic food show that used all 4 floors of that building. Many don't realize how many thousands of square footage is on the first level alone.
A lot of collectors don't realize just how SMALL even out largest coin shows are compared to many other trade shows.
