I will be doing this show for the first time. I know it is a very large show, and like most such, there may be really bad locations. I understand it is also a site that slopes down toward the river.
For anyone who has been there before, I wonder if you can advise about better booth locations. I downloaded a map from their prospectus on ZAPP. Most booths are on 3 north-south streets: Vine, Elm, and Broadway. A small section is on Vine further north compared to the other streets. 20 or so on an east west street, Vaughn, bordering the river.
I was going to ask for not Vaughn, figuring it might have wind issues; and not the north end of Vine. “Orphan booths”, and all that. But then saw that a shuttle drops off at that end, and thought… maybe that’s a good spot after all ?!
I would appreciate any tips you can offer me. Thanks!
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Thank you both! I'll send a request and give first, second, and third choices...since they are this far into it already.
We did this show some years back, Linnea (a really sweet one in a cool river town), and were on the main drag, believe that was Broadway. It is a very wide street and as I recall it slopes -- it is the street that everyone visits as the show layout is somewhat sprawling (at least it was back then).
I'll be going for the first time myself. I'm taking 2x8x10' boards and shims rather than fight with the sloping streets to level the display panels. Too many of those streets have a pronounced crown across the ten foot span that makes leveling too much of a pain and time waster. I'm on Vaughn, booth 605. I looked at it and it appears that there is no short cut from from side of the show to the other except for Second and Main streets up at the north end of the show. The concessions are down at the end of Vaughn, and anyone walking Vaughn has only the one side of the street with booths on it, with the Ohio River across from us.
You have a booth assignment already??? Goodness. How do they balance the mediums if booth assignments are not done all at once? Might be no point on my even asking for a location if they've done it already. :(
From what I have read about the sloping streets, it seems like leveling will be a pain in any location.
I just wonder if the streets vary in traffic.
The booth assignments are on ZAPP. I received mine about a week ago or so.
The worst street slope was in Tupelo, MS, at the Gumtree show. One spot adjacent to the courthouse had the worst slope I have ever seen bar none. The crazy thing had about 16 inches drop off across ten feet. I stacked up over a foot of boards and there was still a very distinct tilt to the booth. Since then I carry two ten-foot long boards in the floor of the van and enough 2 inch board shims to raise the back end up by about 10 inches or so. If it's worse then that, I can take a battery powered drill and screw the boards together to get even taller heights.
The stuff we have to do! I have had a hole in my booth twice this year already. Keep meaning to buy a 4 x 4 sheet of plywood to keep in the van. The last one I stuffed everything I could find in my van into it, then covered it with my anti-fatigue mat.