On Apr 9, 2007, at 9:17 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: > I see... This one was the first motor show I attended so I might > gotten > somewhat over excited. It probably comes with the location. I bet you > have much more interesting shows in LA or SF ;-).
Frankly, after 35+ years of following car and motorcycle shows, I find them all the same: commercial advertising to entice people to spend money on stuff they don't need or want. I haven't gone to any of them, other than one annual event, in the past five years now. I still do like looking at new machines occasionally but the shows are rarely worth the effort, the expense and the crowds. I always feel like I'm paying the vendors to look at the products they want me to buy. The one I go to whenever I can is the All Italian Car And Motorcycle Show in Alameda, CA. A very atypical event ... utterly non- commercial. It is organized by the local Alfa Romeo Association group and is a benefit for Special Olympics kids. People from all over the area just bring there cars and bikes in, all manner of interesting Italian stuff, and kick back for the day yakking about the cars, life, etc while enjoying some Italian food for lunch. All monies are donated to help the kids. Lots of interesting stuff shows up. This is a gallery of photos from that event posted for "friends and family" in 2004. It breaks all my ideas about gallery presentation, but was fine for the purpose ... snapshots for friends who couldn't make it that weekend. All photos taken with an Olympus C8080WZ in JPEG and posted mostly unaltered ... http://homepage.mac.com/godders/AID2004/ enjoy Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
