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Blue Gray was already in high gear by the time I made it here 10pm Wednesday evening. Amazing the room to room that was still going on close to midnight...

Picked up a great can from Candog. Plenty of great shine and a great deal from Tom Chegash....$25....picture doesn't do it justice....
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Coffee clutch early Thursday morning
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I've been in 82 rooms so far. Some great fellow RBers here....

A few cans so far....
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Plenty of beer.....
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keithker wrote: Thu Feb 15, 2018 5:55 pm I've been in 82 rooms so far. Some great fellow RBers here....

A few cans so far....

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Perfect place to put a sticker.....right dead center on the face. Putting prices on the ends of the can didn't do enough damage!

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Hanging with some fellow RBers....
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Some more RBers in the house....
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Made it through 92 rooms so far. Plenty more to come. Two floors sold out.
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My room here. I will try to take some pics tomorrow....
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My pickups so far. VERY happy with what I have managed so far!!!
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Nice scores! Please don't forget to look for soda cones for me. Lol.
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Oh and Natty quarts 😉
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willssoda wrote: Thu Feb 15, 2018 11:19 pm Oh and Natty quarts 😉
My friend Brian picked one up before I got here for $50. Worth 2-3 times that amount!
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Yea! Thanks for thinking of us poor souls with pics!
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Keith, Great to see you and all the long time collectors yesterday at B/G. Here's some people pictures to add for the RB viewing public.

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Beer continues to flow.....
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Scott that Clyde is quite the pick up! That is gonna shelf like a champ!!!! Nice Work!!!!! Woody
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Thanks for the pics guys! :smt006
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Woody wrote: Fri Feb 16, 2018 3:04 pm Scott that Clyde is quite the pick up! That is gonna shelf like a champ!!!! Nice Work!!!!! Woody
Thanks Woody. I paid $270 for my downgrade (available) and I am almost embarrassed to say I paid ONLY $60 for this one.....SCORE!!!
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Thanks goes out to Scott Sea Monkey Gray for his donation to the Chapter for a punchboard or other give away.....
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Gotta say, BG was a pretty good scene in 2018. I was able to go for Thursday and Friday, and room-to-room was hopping throughout. I picked up three new labels and nine upgrades -- the shelf is gonna be a lot more shiny after I get these put up.

And lots of good stories and lies being told room to room.
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It wouldn't be BG without snow....the photos did do it any justice but hey I'm from Florida
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Freezing rain even more like BG...and what would BG be like without seeing something like this....
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Tom, that Erin Brew spinner is KILLER!
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The good news is there were a lot of "Younger" guys (20's to 40's) floating around the floors most of the weekend, and they were buying stuff. Some of them were there just for the beer and were looking around, but most were collectors into Craft cans and coasters, and local breweries from the past. This is a good sign as we need more young blood in the hobby. Jerry Cole (Board member) and a few others were talking about how to get the craft brew drinkers of today interested in the hobby. I heard a lot of good ideas.
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That Erin brew spinner has changed hands a lot since it showed up at an auction here in Cleveland 2 years ago. Btw it is the only known one of a kind
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One guy selling his collection had some outrageous prices. $400 for a can I didn't buy for $100 a few rooms down. (the well-priced cans were long gone) He did have a dumper quart I wanted. poor shape and with lots of paint over which I thought would strip off with some acetone. He wanted $37.00. I asked if he could do better and he said "$32."
Still too much, so I commented about all the paint-over.
"It's not painted over, I dumped it myself!"
I thought he was kidding and laughed politely. I thanked him and put it back, but he kept commenting about how it was NOT painted over, grumbling that "I guess I need to bring a black lite to shows now." That's when I realized that he was not kidding. He really was denying that it had been painted. It looked like some kid in the 70s used his Testor's model paint to slather over all the white; one of the worst paint-over jobs I've seen and he was insisting that it was all original. wow. When I left the room he was STILL griping to himself.

FWIW, he was the same guy who taped his signs up all over the hallways despite the show's organizers' specific requests NOT to tape up signs...
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Beauty of America. Individuals can sell what they want for how much they want. Buyers can take it or leave it. Appears there may have been some issues there....just have to be the better man. I take it that was pretty much the only room out of the large group like that?or was everyone that way? I wasn't there but friends of mine who were shared some really great deals with me and I was able to pick up some really nice items at what I felt were great prices and at the end of the day I'm glad these shows still exist because without them the hobby would die and my monetary and time investment along with it. Hopefully this fellow was able to get out and see how everyone else's prices were and learned from it.
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