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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;brg5658, post: 2483589, member: 29751&quot;]The main demographic for the ANA is a bunch of old white guys.&nbsp; And, most of them stay indoors and are at hotels connected to the convention center so they don&#039;t have to leave the site.&nbsp; Let&#039;s not fool ourselves that coin shows, even the ANA, are some sort of draw for lots of family vacations.</p><p><br /></p><p>For the record, there has not been a summer ANA show in Florida since 1992.&nbsp; So, yes, it does seem that the ANA thinks Florida has its bases covered with the FUN shows.</p><p><br /></p><p>I understand the show is supposed to move around, and I didn&#039;t care for it being in Chicago so many years in a row either.&nbsp; My point was that I feel the ANA takes the lazy and easy way out, and has particularly become lazy seeking out different venues. </p><p><br /></p><p>Minneapolis hasn&#039;t had an ANA in 80 years (1936 was the last).&nbsp; Now that we have a stupid bullion law here in Minnesota, it will likely never come back -- but why didn&#039;t it come back in the 70 years it could have?&nbsp; Omaha would be another good location -- they hosted in 1955, nothing since.&nbsp; Kansas City has never had a summer ANA.&nbsp; St. Louis last had one in 1979.&nbsp; You get the drift here -- and &quot;nice weather&quot; isn&#039;t a very valid reason to have a show in California in the summer.&nbsp; The weather is largely nice everywhere in the USA in August -- at least we&#039;ve never had snow here in Minnesota in August in the ~15 years I&#039;ve lived here.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In the end, it is what it is.&nbsp; I&#039;ll just bid on any auction items via the internet.&nbsp; What I&#039;m missing on the bourse I will not know -- but it seems the ANA has cared more about what dealers want than what collectors and ANA members want for a while now.&nbsp; Yet another &quot;wholesale dealer coin swap meet&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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