in what year(s) did the Baltimore and the FUN shows evolve from local shows to regional shows then i

oreville

A fellow coin collector asked me that and I drew a blank!!! I could not remember!!

Any historians or any members of each show that can give us a year by year numeric listing of the number of paid tables or attendance or even the size and location of the bkurse room?

ColonelJessup

When I started traveling in 1979, FUN was already a well-established national show that was preceded by the Miami AINA show, mostly attended by East Coast dealers and collectors. Nine or ten days of intense start-of-year business. Moe Weinschel ran the major NYC club show as well as that in Miami. Many of the NYC crew were snowbird collector volunteers serving both shows.

Baltimore started as a show in New Carrollton, MD in the lower level of the parking structure at a local semi-decent hotel. I remember one time in a 10" blizzard......

I can't remember when Gordon Berg and Ed Kusczmar established Baltimore as a venue. I wasn't around at the time. A rising East Coast venue that went national by 2000 when I started paying attention again.