Thanks, Mike, and my apologies to you, Dave, and Ray. In your modesty you didn't mention that the Rauler was in a candy lime by Joe Bell. The Wizard was a Wizard, a wonderful wizard of Wizminster... :-)
thanks harvey sachs mcLean va
Mike Schmidt wrote:
> My thoughts,
>
> Hopefully for next year, they will rethink their strategy on aisles.
> There were also no walls for the vendors to hang stuff on. Selection
> of stuff was just so-so. But I was there for the smiles and the
> giggles, the chit and the chat.
>
> I brought an early 80's Rauler. Dave Neuhaus had the Peugeot PX-10.
> Ray Homiski displayed one of his TWO Wizards.
>
> Tom Adams, Billy Rounds, Steve Maasland, Eddie Albert, Wayne Bingham,
> Roy Drinkwater, Larry Osborne, Karen Rawls and her son, Marty Walsh,
> Dan Artley, Simon Firth, Dave Abraham, Jill DiMauro, Ed Kinney, Curtis
> Anthony and Sam Fitsimmons.
>
> Steals n deals: Sam Fitz bought a De Rosa for $500. Who grabbed
> what? Let's here it
>
> Monson is next weekend and we'll be there.
>
> Mike Schmidt
> New York, NY
>
> On Mon Feb 6 9:41 , Harvey M Sachs sent:
>
> The new venue for the Westminster (MD) swap meet was much improved: a
> large exhibit hall designed for agricultural shows. Concrete floor,
> lots of tables.
> The thing felt much, much bigger than the old one, which was held
> in a
> string of connected sheds or slightly better. New place had abundant
> light, much easier loading - unloading, etc.
> It also felt much bigger, and had rather crowded narrow aisles.
>
> I think there must have been twenty or so of us vintage
> aficianados, but
> I'm terrible about names and faces, so please don't feel hurt if I
> don't
> remember that you were there. Edward Albert, Billie Rounds, Tom
> Adams,
> the brothers Granger had tables in the shadow of Larry Black's usual
> lovely collection of eye candy bikes of all flavors. Half a dozen
> folks
> brought bikes just to show, which was fun. A "pair" of 38
> Schwinns: my
> Paramount in white, and Pete Rutledge's Superior in bright red. Very
> pale Claud Butler (?) fancy-lugs, Ken Sanford's 50s Gillot, Wayne'
> Bingham's (?) Wizard, and so on. I'm leaving some out. the brothers
> Sanford and Wayne Bingham had tables nearby. As, I'm sure, did
> others.
> Curtis and Ralph, the Via Bikes crew from Philly had a table. Mike
> Schmidt, Steve Maasland, my old grad school buddy Bob Kasper (whom I
> hadn't seen in maybe 30 years), Rich Cool...
>
> I had a great time, but felt there was one tiny problem: I sure
> didn't
> find lots and lots of vintage stuff from Out There, the non-CR types
> bringing in Stuff from attic or seller. Except Bob & Kathy Dollar,
> clearing out lots of nice vintage tandem stuff (they've "advanced" to
> 'bents now). I got yet another pair of DynaDrive pedals, someone else
> got the world's grubbiest Campy Sport. I think I broke even or better
> on vintage stuff, but didn't hear anyone talking about lots of great
> finds. Hmmm. Maybe I was so busy socializing that others got all the
> good stuff.
>
> harvey sachs
> mcLean va
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