My friend Tim refers to it as the Butthole of the Midwest.
I usually consider the entire lake front from Illinois to Michigan the armpit of the Midwest. You can't have a butthole in your armpit.
My friend Tim refers to it as the Butthole of the Midwest.
I'm setting up at the show now. This area seems much safer than the parking lot at the Indy 1500. Not a bad neighborhood at all.
And almost in our backyard.Me and my daughter will be there. Probably shortly after 9am. Hopefully turnout is good. Figure more traffic thru the better chance it can become a regular show
Will be there sometime tomorrow. Sad to think so many people are are going to miss this show because of the location. Help support the INGO vendors.the armory is a clean ,air conditioned building in the industrial area of Gary .I am setting up and hope that this will be a regular show.After all if an 80 year old is willing to go maybe others will follow?
Hope the show gets a good turn out.
The couple of times I have driven through Gary, it was reminded me of some ****holes that I was deployed to, in the middle-east.
I understand your point of view. I had a really good show (not as good as Crown Point), it was definitely worth going for me. We did get some customers from Crown Point but I'd say 30% of the customers had never been to a gun show before. I had several people tell me that they thought it was a great show. I told them that Crown Point is over 3x larger, I think most of them will be at the next Crown Point show.From a vendor's viewpoint: I'm not sure I can justify the overhead (expense) for a one day show when I feel like the customer base is the same as the Crown Point & Valpo show. Between those two shows, I'm in that "region" 10 times a year.
Not all of Gary is a ****hole. If you know where to go, there are some awesome places to eat (some of which may not technically be in Gary).