PA Anthracite posted:"October usually has good bit bigger crowd".......not last week, at least not in Orange Hall. A good judge of the crowd is how far vehicles are parked out from Orange Hall on Friday mornings around the 9 a.m. opening. On good years, the parking has approached the west gate off Highland Ave., both on the pavement and the grass. Last week, vehicles weren't even halfway to the gate. People keep posting about how big the crowd was....I didn't see it that way. I didn't see a lot of the general public in Orange Hall on either Thursday or Friday although there were two Amish families looking around on Friday morning. Also, there was little to no bargaining on prices. I understand that dealers are there to make money but the buying public also has only some much to spend. To me, April is the better show if it should unfortunately have to come down to being held once a year. October prices are higher because it is the start of the Christmas buying season.
Another point about last week's show is that it followed a pattern that hasn't happened in a few years since the ED changed the show's schedule. For years, on average late Sept./ early October has the Fall Carlisle Car Show, followed by the Hershey Car Show leading into Columbus Day weekend, and the Fall ED show would then be the following (3rd) weekend. A few years back, the ED pushed the fall show back a week. People, particularly those with campers, would spend the better part of the three weeks in Central PA and attend all three shows. I use to attend all three at once time and see familiar faces at each event. This year, the calender cycled around so that the three shows followed each other on the three subsequent weekends. One would have expected at least some members to do this again.
If the ED wants to put the HO and N scale in Yellow, why not try it and see if it works. Yellow was a challenge to navigate and carry packages when it was crowded. Both gauges are a crowd that York doesn't seem to draw very well.
Thursday the cars were pretty close to the gate,more people were parking out by the side this year asphalt.
