Re: Phila Show

**"* V* <i*@cobrahead.com>**

We were vendors at Philadelphia for the 3rd year.  Obviously attendance is 
important to us.

Show attendance appeared to be just slightly down from last year.  But both 
years were down significantly from 2007.  I'm guessing down 30%.  The only 
bad day was Monday when the storm hit.  Unfortunately that was also the GWA 
Regional Meeting day.  We still saw a lot of writers we knew.  Sales were 
actually up slightly for us from last year.

We have done these shows :  Kansas City, our first, but well attended. 
Madison Garden Expo - our 7th - record crowds and record sales for us; 
Hartford, 2nd time - about the same as last year.  We are currently doing 
Chicago.  Chicago is undergoing a renewal after two very bad years in the 
suburbs which we fortunately did not attend.

I visited the Chicago show on Monday on the way back from Philly.  It is 
definitely under attended, but the garden exhibits are truly exceptional, 
much better than 3 years ago with a very strong presence from Chicago 
Botanic Garden and the Chicago Parks Department.  The vendor/market area is 
probably the best looking overall of any of the shows we do.

We will be doing Cincinnati in a month and I'm curious to see how they do in 
their new location, although I don't think Cincy should be a nine day show.

So far, we are not seeing gloom and doom at the shows in which we 
participate.  We also heard that Rhode Island did very well this year.

Noel Valdes
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