I remember:
-the auction on Friday nights in the green hall. Wooden slat folding chairs on a concrete floor. If it was cold outside you had to stomp your feet to keep the blood circulating. It was always entertaining. Things would sell at the auction for more than your asking price on your table.
- absolutely no talking inside the halls before the doors were opened.
- after opening, the sellers trying to set up while the buyers were trying to shop creating a virtual log jam in the aisles.
- Lou Redman's famous train suit.
- Elliot Welz under the grandstand selling phenomenal paint jobs on Lionel postwar engines especially GG-1s. Also was Grysbowski, Nicholas Smith, et. al under the grandstand as well.
- the ED "ticket" office at the end of the blue hall.
- parking in the grass about 100 yards west of the blue hall (No orange hall).
- taking my food in the car, cause if you went to go eat you would lose your spot.
I think the square footage of table/display space is much higher now than in the 80's. The silver and orange halls alone are nearly 70% of the old York show.
It's still the best train show IMO.
