Should Show Promoters Include Clauses That Prevent Dealers From Working Other Shows?

[bobw]

I started setting up the Philly Show back in 1984 in the George Washington Motor Lodge and I remember back in the late 1980s there was a fellow by the name of Jack Land who tried to run a show in the same Willow Grove George Washington Motor Lodge as Bob Schmierer, who ran the Philly Show. I believe he had Barry Bonds as one of the signers. To confuse people even more, this fellow also got a PO Box in the exact same Maple Glen , PA post office that Bob had a box in. We got the word , Don't even think about doing that show. Like Rich said previously, he had the waiting list for tables and he had absolute power.....I miss those days.

PS.. I held out hope for the Philly Show but I stopped doing it a year and half ago . Between the huge rise in table costs, horrendous loading in and out situation and the lack of seeing familiar faces and customers, I had to give it up.