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Hershey 2021 Called AACA in Hershey with a question this week. After I got my answer, I asked if the Hershey Fall meet was a go this year. The staff’s answer was a definite yes, and the land owner, The Hershey Park Corporation has numerous other event s scheduled for this year. There is one more meeting to finalize the decision, but it is only a formality. See you there.
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Re: Hershey 2021 I gotta say I'll be happy to hear the Italian and Spanish and Russian and French that I can eavesdrop on as I wear out my hips with five seasons of clothes at easy reach! And a tasty apple!
One of my favorite things to do is to get up before dawn Saturday and put myself at the entrance to the show field. Listen and smell the entrants as they file in. The car corral is so fun! Another fave is to be there as soon as the vendors set up. Gravy time. |
Re: Hershey 2021 Will be there with bells on. Can't wait. I think this is my 40th year and I'm going to be 51 this December.
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Re: Hershey 2021 With twins and a new house I will have to be a bit more cautious with my buying, but I absolutely CAN'T WAIT!! I've been to every Hershey since the 1 before I was born.
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Re: Hershey 2021 it'll be my 55th, Lord willing.
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Re: Hershey 2021 Still trying to make my first......I take that week off every year but haven’t made it yet.....maybe this year.......Mark
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Re: Hershey 2021 This will be my 53rd year, I can't wait!!!!
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Re: Hershey 2021 60th here. Through most of the 1960's, go through the flea market on Saturday morning, then look at the cars in the afternoon. Almost all cars were pre-1931.
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Re: Hershey 2021 Always wanted to go, what is the date?
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Re: Hershey 2021 Jon,
The oldest on the stadium field and the youngsters on the long gone adjacent practice field. Then there was the seemingly perpetual mud in the blue (?) field down by the long gone nursery. |
Re: Hershey 2021 This will be number 38. More than half my life. Yes the rains, the mud, the gravel trucks and the tractors. What memories. I started thanks to a wonderful man named Nacewicz at spaces along the last row of the old red field (what David refers to--the nursery). Then there was the white and then the chocolate fields. The wet shoes walking through the damp grass has been replaced by the hard asphalt, and better drainage.
And it is still free to enter and walk around (parking, spaces, motels, food, purchases and toilets excluded). And...........those announcements: "Attention on the swap meet fields............" See ya there! |
Re: Hershey 2021 Steve, the dates are October 6, 7, 8, & 9. The load in date is on the 5th but not much going on except set-up.
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Re: Hershey 2021 Bruce,
Speaking of the announcements, there's that the unique eastern Pennsylvania pronunciation of "vehicles". |
Re: Hershey 2021 Dave;
I often wondered if they were recorded messages as they really never change. ".........your vehicle must be moved immediately or it will be towed!" |
Re: Hershey 2021 Right you are David. We can't wait until the PA announcer needs a car moved and call's it a "vee-hick-el. I don't know who he is, but it sounds like the same guy, year after year.
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Re: Hershey 2021 Same guy, judging from the voice, as far back as I can remember. And it isn't a recording as he cites the license plate number of the offending "vee-hick-el" each time.
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Re: Hershey 2021 I'm ready!
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Re: Hershey 2021 If you were to talk to the gang in gasoline alley, they will tell you that often, they are pretty well sold out by the end of setup day, and ready to pack up a leave on Wed. Set up day is far from "not much going on".
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Re: Hershey 2021 A lot goes down quickly and quietly on set up day.
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Re: Hershey 2021 Got my credentials envelope today. I've been going since the early '60s as a kid, remember cars in the stadium, and fleas between the stadium and Park Ave clearly. One of the old black pipe entrance gates to the flea market field on Park Ave is still there and in use by Hershey park crews.It has always been nearly impossible to get photos of the show cars, I think it used to be worse then than it is now.
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Re: Hershey 2021 Russcc, Gasoline Alley is no more. The Hershey company ( Herco) took most of that area for expansion. Some of the former Gasoline Alley vendors are scattered throughout the entire flea market.
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Re: Hershey 2021 The only time I went was in 2002.Great but when I got back home the next day lost my job at a major airline.They shut down the atl shops and moved them north.But I still remember going picked up my 2 conv top wood there.
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Re: Hershey 2021 Folks,
Have lived in PA all my life , had a classic car when I should have been doing other things in life., But never went to Hershey. Probably too late to start now. Except for now the new toy may need some things?? Hope you guys have fun? (Sounds like he may be pronouncing vehicle correctly to me!:)) Regards, Chris |
Re: Hershey 2021 Been going since 1973, never missed one.
Until last year....going this year tho !!! |
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I sold my Motor Home last week. So I better be looking for another one I guess. Anyway I am going to Hershey. We will get there one way or another
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Re: Hershey 2021 One of the gasoline alley crew told me in 2019 that the space they normally used behind the stadium was taken temporarily for construction storage for a project. He said they would be back in the alley next year, 2020. Little did we know then. The project did not look to me at the time, that it would impinge on gasoline alley. We will see.
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Re: Hershey 2021 I know a couple guys who had spaces in Gasoline alley, were right near the root beer stand at the end of the stadium. They moved to the Green field and like it better there, are not going back. A couple others with spaces elsewhere in that field like their new spots better also.
I drove up and took a look at the construction last summer. I couldn't get close due to construction fencing, but much of that lot seemed to be just gone, as in excavated away. Construction was nowhere complete so it could be replaced, I'm looking forward to seeing how it is this year. |
Re: Hershey 2021 Would live to attend one of the big US swap meets! They look amazing
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Re: Hershey 2021 It looks like I won't be able to make it.
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Re: Hershey 2021 I'm looking forward to it!
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Hershey 1975-79 The Bi Planes, the Jiffy Johns(I had things well in hand) and the MUD. 50 Years for me.
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Re: Hershey 2021 Hershey Experience:
Years ago at Hershey checking out different vendors, I came across a vender who mostly had older Ford parts. I noticed a nice hub cap for a 1930 Chevrolet. I asked the gentlemen how much for the hub cap? The guy replied “I’m selling a complete set of 5 not the single one on display.I asked the gentlemen to see the other 4 caps. He said He had the other 4 in His motor home And brought them out to show me, they were all in great shape so I purchased them. After getting home and cleaning out my trunk ,I noticed I had only 4 and evidently left the one on display and only took the 4 that He brought out from the motor home. The following year returned to Hershey hoping to locate the site I purchased the hub caps from. I searched and found the site and asked the gentlemen if He had sold the 5 hub caps the previous year and His replay was “I was hoping you would come buy as I saved it for you and have it in the motor home” The gentlemen gave it to me no charge and ever since every time at Hershey I stop by to see Him and we became HERSHEY FRIENDS. It made me really appreciate people like Him! I think it shows there is still honest people like Him! Have a great time st Hershey this year! Bob |
Re: Hershey 2021 You do make a bunch of new friends at Hershey, whether it's the 2 guys next to you, Dale & Bill from the Midwest who you see every year, or the guy selling some tools. Asked him what he did for living ? Chemical engineer, he replied. He said, you know that shiny packaging stuff that looks like aluminum, it's actually Mylar, and I developed it.
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The stacks are still there as of yesterday, might be gone by October.
https://fordbarn.com/forum/attachmen...1&d=1625338082 |
Re: Hershey 2021 That's a great picture of the stacks.
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2010 - from the hill (Hershey Hotel)
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Re: Hershey 2021 This will be 52 for me.
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Re: Hershey 2021 Speaking of announcements
All day Saturday: No vehicle traffic in the flea market area. I can remember the aisles packed with people who could only get in one day. |
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