The weather didn’t cooperate at all.
It was cold, overcast and rainy for all of the four days we’d set aside before the show, so much for working poolside. We setup in the lobby and because fixtures with much of the staff who would accommodate us as best they could. The hotel was incredibly busy with various convention attendees but by Friday afternoon it was a virtual ghost town. Amazing to see the transition.
Over the week we ate at all three of the hotel restaurants and even from PEETS ™ who has a decent selection of sandwiches but terrible coffee. Bad coffee was the running joke for the week, we even tried using Uber Eats to get some better stuff delivered and it was no use.
I think its funny when you’re talking to someone local— they tell you maybe you don’t like the coffee because “west coast coffee is different than east coast coffee” as if I’d never been to the west coast before.
I don’t think this was rocket science, we were in an area with nothing but the convention center around it. If you came and stayed at my house for a week with no car you have a market and a pizza place about 10 mins away and neither place has decent coffee.
But back to the trip— we continued to work in the lobby, food at the sushi bar nearby was weak, and I think our best meal came from an Uber delivery from a deli about 40 minutes away.
Saturday other comic collectors started to arrive and there was even some really major trading going on in the lobby— I saw some $10-$20k books being bandied about.
Sunday was the day of the show— we had to get a big pile of boxes that had been FedEx’d in to the convention center so we were up early to setup our booth. The show itself was small by today’s convention standards but bigger than I had expected. This was a pure comic book show— no Pop figures, no cosplayers, no toys or collectibles, just comics.
I managed to pickup at BATMAN #2 and a BATMAN #6 both from the early 1940s as well as a good pile of other assorted 1940s books.
The boys did well and it was a successful show overall.