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Glendale
Civic Auditorium |
Carlton's
in parking garage leaving show |
Vendor
Booth
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Baseball
Bat Bar Table |
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c1920
Polo Player Toy |
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c1950
Motorized 3-D Voit Adv. Display |
Line
to get in at 12:00PM opening
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c1930
Home Run King Baseball Toy |
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c1920
43" wide reverse glass uniforms
sign
from Yankee Stadium
(just
kidding)
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Visits
THE
ALL AMERICAN COLLECTORS SHOW
(A.K.A
THE GLENDALE SHOW)
Glendale
Civic Auditorium
Glendale
Calif - Jan. 16th-17th 2010
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THE
GLENDALE SHOW
By
Carlton
Hendricks
Last
Saturday January 16th 2010 I attended the All
American Collectors Show in Glendale California, at the
Glendale Civic Auditorium. Glendale is a
pleasant suburb of Los Angeles 16 mile out. The Glendale show as I call
it, takes place twice a year in January and August. I've been to most of them the last twenty
plus years. The show is best known for toys and advertising, what I call
the "fun stuff" antiques. They say the January show
is the best one, but I'm not so sure anymore. I think in the old days
some east coast dealers would do the January show but not the August.
GLENDALE'S
EVOLUTION
The show isn't what it was, but what
is? Used to be two floors,
and probably twice as many dealers....but it's been eBayed like the rest of the antiques
world. In the old days the show really cooked and you could feel the excitement
in the air. It would be so packed it was hard to see the stuff in booths
2-3 people deep.
The now closed downstairs area was two levels, with a
mezzanine that surrounded a deeper pit area. All the floor space was
filled with booths in the pit and on the mezzanine. Plus there was
another side room full of another 5-6 dealers. Plus there were dealers
set up in the entry hall at some shows . One show there were even tents
set up outside full of dealers. They say it was one of the best shows in the
country for toys and advertising.
THE
ENVIRON
Even
the 1920's architecture of the building the show is held in, the
Glendale Civic Auditorium, has changed some since I started attending. At
least they didn't touch the front, and the palm trees. But there used to
be this fantastic lawn area on the east side the building that kind of
looked like a little sunken stadium. Back
then I'd spend the entire day in the show; open to close. When I'd leave
I'd go out and lay on that lawn and rest up before heading out.
The
design of the lawn area was period 1920's, same as the auditorium
and I felt a slice of another era there. As if the past era's I'd been
looking at all day didn't leave immediately when I left the building, like they kind of hung around just a little longer before I headed out
into the modern world. The L.A. weather in the early evening was very
refreshing after being inside most of the day. Then
came that darn three story parking garage that is there now and out went
that great lawn area!
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