Burbank Card Show-Vintage dealers?

[raulus]

Dropped off my 4 complete jello boxes (2x 1962, 2x 1963) at PSA,and then swung by to say hello to Adam, and scored a few Mel Ott pieces to add to my collection.

(That’s Adam doing the wave behind me.)

Stupid pics never want to display right side up!

[Lorewalker]

Just heard from 2 friends who went to the show and both have been in line since 10 and 11...it is now close to 12 and they are not inside yet saying the line was at least 1/4 mile long. Sounds like a great turnout.

[ocjack]

Drove to the convention center, about 15 miles, and got to the area around 11:45. Traffic is absurd. More police and blocked streets than I've seen in a long time. The traffic line to get to the first possible light to turn left and enter the line for the parking lot, was at least 3 city blocks long and crawling. By the time I got to the entry for the lot, guess what - "lot full." They were directing people to lots miles away at best. Being a senior citizen, I'm just not up to that kind of walk. So.......after spending about an hour in line just to get to the parking lot, I changed lanes and went home. I wanted to go to show my support so that they would hold additional conventions here. I guess they got their show of support without me.

Maybe, if I can re-muster my excitement tomorrow, I'll try Uber. We'll see.

To those that made it in, hope you had a good time. Sorry I missed it.

[rlevy]

I was there yesterday and it was nothing like described above. I got there at 11:30, was inside 15 minutes later. Lots of room in the aisles to move around. In fact, some of the dealers were saying they were disappointed it wasn't busier, but there was a lot of talk that Saturday was going to be crazy. Guess they were right.

Rick

[GasHouseGang]

Originally Posted by ocjack

Drove to the convention center, about 15 miles, and got to the area around 11:45. Traffic is absurd. More police and blocked streets than I've seen in a long time. The traffic line to get to the first possible light to turn left and enter the line for the parking lot, was at least 3 city blocks long and crawling. By the time I got to the entry for the lot, guess what - "lot full." They were directing people to lots miles away at best. Being a senior citizen, I'm just not up to that kind of walk. So.......after spending about an hour in line just to get to the parking lot, I changed lanes and went home. I wanted to go to show my support so that they would hold additional conventions here. I guess they got their show of support without me.

Maybe, if I can re-muster my excitement tomorrow, I'll try Uber. We'll see.

To those that made it in, hope you had a good time. Sorry I missed it.

I had the same luck. Drove around the convention center trying to find parking for around 45 minutes, and the police were no help. They had blocked off every entrance to the multiple parking lots I tried and were directing everyone away from the center. I went home.

[raulus]

Originally Posted by GasHouseGang

I had the same luck. Drove around the convention center trying to find parking for around 45 minutes, and the police were no help. They had blocked off every entrance to the multiple parking lots I tried and were directing everyone away from the center. I went home.

I got there around 10:15 and it was already a major zoo. Ended up parking at one of the Disney lots and walking about 0.4 miles.

There was an anime convention going on at the convention center, which was also part of the traffic. I accidentally went to that side at first. Walked in and was like, “I know my people are different, but this is not my crowd”, so kept on walking. Took about 15 mins of waiting in line to get screened through security. Once inside it wasn’t too crazy busy. Had to leave to catch my flight after a pretty short stint, but by then the line to get in had grown exceptionally to more like 45 mins.

Just glad I got there early enough to take care of my priority stuff and still catch my flight back home.

The only serious drag was there were waaaaay too many Dodgers fans running around everywhere. Had to take a shower when I got home to wash off the Dodger filth.

[ocjack]

Originally Posted by raulus

There was an anime convention going on at the convention center, which was also part of the traffic..

Ahhh that explains the girls with purple hair and fur boas....

[Lorewalker]

Originally Posted by ocjack

Ahhh that explains the girls with purple hair and fur boas....

If they knew there was a card show in the area they might have stayed home.

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by raulus

Stupid pics never want to display right side up!

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