Day One of the
22nd Annual Rockhounds Roundup Gem, Mineral, & Jewelry Show hosted by the
Santa Lucia Rockhounds is now complete. As chairman of this show for the second year in a row I put a lot of work into this show before this weekend as did my wonderful rockhound family who journeyed with me to this point and without whom nothing I have done would amount to anything without. This year went even smoother than last year from a logistical standpoint.
However, the elements one again played a significant role. Whereas last year saw the show for the last time being held on the third weekend of September and we experienced a heat wave during which it peaked at 105° on Saturday of that show, this year we had nice temperatures as one would expect in the merry month of May but we had wind. We had wind so strong as a cut-off low approaches that we were under a wind advisory during the afternoon following a calm but warmer-than-expected morning. This wind actually caused one vendor booth to be toppled by the wind (
Naturals From The Earth). Quite fortunately nobody was hurt and damage was limited. Winds got worse tonight so I hope all is quiet overnight. Winds will be as bad or worse tomorrow with a possibility of gusts up to 40 m.p.h. by late tomorrow afternoon around the time of breaking down the show.
I was too busy to take as many photographs as I'd like and I am borrowing a camera to which I'm less familiar than my own so I took fewer images. Below are the best of the batch.
For more images from today please check
HERE.
Check out the action from
Day Two.
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One of our sandwich sings on Riverside Avenue |
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Our big sign leaned against the side of the Pioneer Museum. |
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Morning shadows shortening in Pioneer Park as Day One of the show wakes up. |
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First-time vendor Jack Daggett's booth... where's Jack? Quite possibly he was at a safety meeting! |
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The show started slower than I would have liked... |
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... and never got up to the levels of foot traffic I was aiming for. |
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Our friends at the Native Sons of the Golden West (San Miguel Parlor) did their usual rockin' job as our primary food vendor serving their delicious Santa Maria-style barbecue tri-tip and chicken and all the fixin's. That's SLR's member Craif Rambo working in the Native Sons booth as he's a member of their club as well. |
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At least this year we have essentially a full compliment of dealers unlike last year's roughly 66% capacity show. |
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Club member Mike Judy bringing down the hammer on a hapless geode in our mini-geode guillotine. |
All photos by Kim Patrick Noyes (all rights reserved).
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