This year's show was spectacular as always. Janice and I arrived early afternoon on Thursday, having driven Wadsworth (our '56 Imperial) down -- and using the ice-cold factory air through the entire trip! Thursday is set up day and not an official show day. I like to get a jump on things and pick through the flea market early -- and this year it really paid off! At one of the vendors who'd just finished setting up, I found the deluxe prestige catalogue for Wadsworth -- which I'd been searching for in vain ever since I got the car 7 months ago! The brochure was in almost mint condition, and was a very reasonable price -- and if I had waited until Friday, it almost certainly would have been snapped up by another lucky collector!
Janice got lucky twice at the toy show Saturday -- one of the very first vendors she came to had a gorgeous, mint-in-box 15" Shirley Temple doll, circa 1959 -- 1963. Shirleys in this condition don't come along too often, so she was walking on air. A little later, she came across someone who had a full store display for Ideal's Petite Princess line of dollhouse furniture, which dated back to 1964. The piece was set up as a sort of dollhouse, and contains each and every piece from the line -- Janice had only seen one other store display, and it was a photo in a book. As she played with these when she was a child, she was delighted to come across such an unusual and complete piece!
But let's not forget the main reason for going to the show -- the cars! This is an entirely non-judged show, and in spite of this -- or perhaps because of it -- is a sell-out each year. As in previous years, we didn't know what to look at first! So without any further ado, here are some automotive highlights of Macungie 2000!
