- Dates: Saturday and Sunday February 21-22, 2009, 9am - 5:30pm
- Members Only: Friday, February 20, 2009,
5:30pm-9pm
Join online for $10. - Location: Oklahoma Expo Hall, State Fairgrounds, OKC
Hours before the doors open the parking lot fills with cars from different states. Folks line up surrounded by empty shopping carts, boxes and plastic bins on luggage carts. Anyone who has been there before comes prepared, but the cleverest person was someone who came with a few dozen flat cardboard boxes and a roll of shipping tape. The boxes were assembled as needed. It was a light bulb moment for me, why didn't I ever think of doing that?
The first time I took my (adult) daughter, she laughed when she saw me bringing a two wheeled shopping cart. She wasn't laughing an hour later as we both filled it to the brim. Susan collects baseball memorabilia and found a treasure trove of baseball books on the sports tables. Meanwhile I found enough mysteries and suspense books to keep me busy until the next year. I also bought a half dozen price guides ($4 - $7.), a huge Webster Dictionary ($3.), and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations ($1.75). The two of us bought 53 books for $109.
Page Two -- Auction area and the history of the sale.
