Wed. Received call from the promoters
and they said that the show could be cancelled due to the weather.
I don't know about that...wow. Checked the forecast and we
could have 'few showers' on Saturday and okay on Sunday. Have
never seen a show cancelled due to the weather...they all went on
rain or shine. We set up on Friday. Left home at 2:45
and it took an hour to get there. Spent 45 minutes putting up
the canopy and grids. We threw our things inside and put up
the covers and left at 4:30. We hit loads of traffic getting
there and going home. The trip home took over 2 hours, but we
side-tracked over to Porky's Pizza in San Lorenzo and picked up a
couple pizzas.
Saturday, June 6.
GETTING THERE. We arrived there at 7:30 and was hoping to park
in the lot adjacent to the park, where we were able to park last
year. They wouldn't let me, they told me that I could just
unload my stuff and I would have to park at Home Depot, 1/2 mile
away. Isn't that a shame. I saw a bunch of cars parked
in the lot and I asked the kid. He said they were 'city cars.'
"Where's their passes...where's their stickers?"
They should call this the Hercules Teeny Bopper Get Together because
that's what it was. I counted the crowd several times and each
time, I counted approximately 1/2 of them as being under the age of
16. Wow. Definitely no buying power. They didn't
spend any money at all...maybe a snow cone.
SALES. Sales were slow all day. Very sluggish.
There were probably 12-15 actual vendors there and most have them
had jewelry and it looked like nobody did any good. One booth
in back of me was selling stuff for little kids and they made a lot
of sales; or at least there were lots of people crowded around the
booth and their things were selling for under 5 bucks.
THE FOOD. Looked like there were some decent food vendors
there. I picked up a good Bratwurst (with onions & Kraut) from
this guy down below. I've bought from him several times at
other shows. Sausages are good. They used to put out a
pretty good German potato salad, but they weren't selling it this
time. There was a Filipino food booth there and I wanted to
get some toron (fried bananas in 'lumpia' wrappers) and she said
that she didn't have any. Oh well. So much for them.
There was a sno-cone booth there and they totally kicked butt with
long lines most of the day AND it wasn't even that warm there with
temps only in the mid-60s and they were located in the shade.
There were a couple other Asian food booths....a Thai (below) and a
Chinese.
HUH? I had a 13-year old oversized kid come into the booth and
ask me 'how much for the wooden swords?" I told him "Ten."
He asked again, "How much?" I looked at him. "Ten."
He looked at me. "What?" "Ten," I said again.
"Huh," he said to me. I yelled out "Ten." He gave me a
very puzzled, confused look and put the sword down and walked away. Wow.
Sunday, June 7. Beautiful weather but an absolutely
excrutiating day as far as sales go. No further
comment. A couple vendors did decently, but not for
the rest of us. Don't look for me there next year,
okay? Nothing further to say.
