Pre-York Breakfast, 4/11/19....Pics Added AM 4/12

Looking forward to it and will have a Trainstock hat for you.

BTW, I wish Gilly well in the Vette. Runflats are good for about 50 miles and try to find a replacement outside a populated area. 

Gerry

Will miss seeing you guys this time....  OGR won't have an "official" booth at the Spring York but several of our staff will be there and we will still have the OGR Grandstanding meeting and of course the get together at Quaker Steak and Lube.  Guys....save a few bottles of that maple syrup for this coming fall...

Enjoy!

Alan

I'll be there!!!!

My Daughter & I will be at Round The Clock around 8:30. We will have a booth near you all.

I wish I could be there Peter!!  Hopefully I'll join everyone in the Fall!

I will be there with my wife, Sue. Being a table-holder, I will have to leave in time to get to the fairgrounds to set up. Looking forward to it!

John 

gmorlitz posted:

BTW, I wish Gilly well in the Vette. Runflats are good for about 50 miles and try to find a replacement outside a populated area. 

Gerry

Thanks for the kind words. One thing. I didn't put Runflats on the Vette. We're running barefoot, so to speak....

Count on Jerry and me arriving around 8:00.

I will be there around 8 too - looking forward to seeing those I already know and meeting those i know only virtually through the forum.

Thanks Peter for organizing this.

Just curious...what do you folks do between 9 and the noon meet opening? I would guess the diner would not want you taking up seats all morning. I realize some are dealers.

Joe Hohmann posted:

Just curious...what do you folks do between 9 and the noon meet opening?.

As I have posted in the past.....(and since a few have asked since the last York)

After breakfast, if you get to the Fairgrounds with nothing to do until noon....

Stop by and visit my portable layout.  Trains running, whistles blowing, DCS dcsing...running from 9:30ish to 11:30ish

I've been bringing my portable layout to York for a few years now.  Gives me something to do as we wait for the grand opening, (weather permitting, but most likely a go!)

Last York the weather was lousy... I decided not to set it up... it was so windy, the wind would have derailed 'em!  Some members came by anyway... sorry to disappoint!

I really hope we have sunny skies this time around!

Just look for the big grey van, with its teeny tiny layout, about 100' in front of the Purple Hall doors in the RV parking area!

Stop by and say, "Hi"... no headcount required

As always, Peter, hope the piggyback on your thread is OK! (and that you stop by for a visit!)

ps. Joe, I just discovered your b'day is the day before mine!  I guess that makes you older, right?

Mark Boyce posted:

I wish I could be there Peter!!  Hopefully I'll join everyone in the Fall!

I'm missing this one as well Mark. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for October but have to see when inventory will be and if I have any days left by then.

Count me in for breakfast!

EddieM - I look forward to seeing the set-up this time after the bad weather in the fall.

Joe - I usually read, relax, and listen to music in my car between breakfast and Noon.  Then I head into the Orange Hall lobby and socialize some more.   If I can break away around 12:45 I go to the Red Hall and start there. If not, I just start with the Orange Hall. Time goes pretty quickly.   A lot of the folks who attend come in on Wednesday or earlier to they have a room to go back to.   Personally, I prefer to get there early and socialize at breakfast and then wait at the Fairgrounds instead of fighting traffic and getting there closer to the opening.

-Greg

eddiem posted:

ps. Joe, I just discovered your b'day is the day before mine!  I guess that makes you older, right?

Yes, if you are 77 or younger.

Greg Houser posted:

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Joe - I usually read, relax, and listen to music in my car between breakfast and Noon.  Then I head into the Orange Hall lobby and socialize some more.     Personally, I prefer to get there early and socialize at breakfast 

-Greg

 

I'm so miserable that no one wants to socialize with me. 

O.K.  youz  guyz..........unless something unusual happens.......such I need to go to work........I'll be there @ 7:30 +/-. 

Hoping that it'll be a pleasant drive up Rte 15, then a right on 30.....etc........would be a BONUS if the weather is nice enough for opening all 6 windows !

What say, Eddie G?  I await the weather prognostication......

redjimmy1955 posted:

 

What say, Eddie G?  I await the weather prognostication......

Eddie is busy packing. Forecast is 65 and rain, which means it will be 58 and sunny.

I can't wait for those great home fries. I order 2 sunny side up eggs and mix them into the home fries. YUM YUM.

Thanks for setting this up Peter.  You can add me to the list.  Thank you

Joe Hohmann posted:

Just curious...what do you folks do between 9 and the noon meet opening? I would guess the diner would not want you taking up seats all morning. I realize some are dealers.

Joe.....when we get to the Fairgrounds about 10:30 or so, many of us congregate in the Orange Hall Lobby and just visit and catch up. We meet up with those who couldn't make breakfast and are just arriving.

Peter

I have not been able to participate in this event in the past because we have been at the Orange Hall doing final setup, but will definitely plan to do so this time around (at around 7:30 or so). Will fill in for Alan Arnold, so any gifts brought for him will, of course, go to me.

Joe Hohmann posted:

Just curious...what do you folks do between 9 and the noon meet opening? 

First thing, I go to Silver Hall to get my badge. For some, they want it in their hands ASAP. I park and enjoy a leisurely stroll. The ladies at the ticket counter are so nice, I would feel like I missed something if I didn't stop by to say hi.

Then back to the lobby at the Orange Hall. Hang-out and meet and greet old friends. The time flies. Once the halls are open all of the slow paced leisure is out the window. 

Count me in Peter, I love the company and they have good food as well.

I go back to the Wyndham till around 11:30, then head to the blue hall where I start.

Allan Miller posted:

I have not been able to participate in this event in the past because we have been at the Orange Hall doing final setup, but will definitely plan to do so this time around (at around 7:30 or so). Will fill in for Alan Arnold, so any gifts brought for him will, of course, go to me.

Allan, you will have to make sure you get Alan's share of the real maple syrup that the other Pete should be bringing. I don't see him posting here yet, but I know he's on the countdown post. Alan as well as most of the rest of us got to enjoy 100% real maple syrup in a jug he brought. Hopefully you all get to enjoy it.

Peter and all; had a great time meeting many of you for the first time last April at the breakfast. I plan to be there again this year and hope to become reacquainted with many of you and to meet even more of the ones I missed.  To me personally these get-togethers  are the best part of attending York.

Thank you for setting up the breakfast again, Pete! Great time! Great food! Great guys!

I will bring another jug of maple syrup!

I hope it is  Maine maple syrup.

Is there any other kind of maple syrup, Ed??!!??

York is always a great event but this one is special for me as it is the 40th anniversary of my first York Meet. I've missed a few over the years, but I'm happy to say I've attended more York Meets than I've missed. 

John 

I believe Vermont has a trademark on Maple Syrup.  And it tastes real good on Maine Lobster!   

Peter, not going to make it this year, going to visit my new grandchildren, daughter and her hubby had twin girls in the fall and making the trip to NC for a long visit.

Putnam Division posted:

Well, we are less than 3 weeks away......It is time to announce the biannual pre-York breakfast.......

April 11, 2019. At the Round-the-Clock Diner.......On Arsenal Road/Route 30 just east of the I-83 interchange. I reserve 6-8 tables and we just join up.

I will arrive about 0730 and we usually stay till about 0930-1000.

Come join your fellow York attendees as we visit and breakfast, wait for the York opening and catch up on the news.

All are welcome! Spouses, too!

Traveling alone? Traveling in a group? 1st York? Have a question about the meet? New to the online Forum? Want to put a face to a name that you have been speaking to online? This is a great way to do it and add to your "York experience".

Just add to the thread if you know you are coming and that helps me give the Round-the-Clock a final number.

Hope to see you there!

Peter

 

Back from a golf vacation in Scottsdale and saw this post, Peter. Thank you for doing all the necessary and needful for the Breakfast. I most certainly will attend, God willing and the creek don't rise. I will bring with me a big jug of pure maple syrup to share with our brothers and sisters. It will be good to see you again.

Kind regards!

God willing I will be there, and I am bringing my new friend Flat Stanley.

Getting closer!

Here is the link to the breakfast menu.......

http://roundtheclockdiner.com/.../breakfast-specials/

Peter

aussteve posted:

God willing I will be there, and I am bringing my new friend Flat Stanley.

I love doing Flat Stanley pictures.......

Peter

Cool, they have SOS as a special!

SOS- have not heard that one for a bit.  there appears to be scrapple for those fans -it is a side for $2.99.  Looks like a piece of burnt toast for heaven's sake!

gunrunnerjohn posted:

Cool, they have SOS as a special!

John, what is SOS may I ask? I don't know the code,  

Since I can't make it, I may have to make a waffle this weekend with poached eggs.

SOS = "Sh_t on a Shingle" in the military (creamed chipped beef on toast, although I like it made simply with ground beef). Love the stuff!

Allan Miller posted:

SOS = "Sh_t on a Shingle" in the military (creamed chipped beef on toast, although I like it made simply with ground beef). Love the stuff!

 

You know, when I came back in here at 2PM it came to me. That phrase I do know but for the life of me didn't dawn on me earlier. I suppose that this can be chalked up to not wanting to get out of bed at 4:45, 5:15, and 5:25 this morning. Typically that never happens. I would imagine if I did manage to get up this morning, SOS would have made perfect sense when I read it. My father used to make some real good when I was little. I barely remember it now, my sister had to remind me a couple of years ago. Maybe I need to get a 2x4 out and give a whack on the noggin, that will get me remembering.