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2010 Fairfax City Fall Festival - a one day show with CROWDS!

Posted by Walt Bennett on October 9, 2010 at 9:11pm
We'd vended here for five years until being invited to the National Folk Festival in Richmond, which we were at for three. Then we got a Light Dome and stopped doing one day events. This year we decided to drag out our EZ-up and try a few one day shows including this one. The attached are North and South views at show opening (10AM) and at almost closing (4:30PM). Sales were down from the last time we were here, but still well into good profit areas. A newbie on one side with photo prints didn't quite make booth fee, but the the other side was very happy, and two others we knew made reasonable revenue. There were several empty spaces, quite a bit of commercial vendors, and some buy-sell, but still at least one hundred folks that actually made what they were selling. Four other wood turners than myself, eight other 3-d artisans, six painters, at least five photographers and I refused to count the jewelry makers. Many others were in the craft category, but not half.

Although it's a one day show on very metropolitan streets, it's extremely well managed by a hoard of volunteers and many city police. You are told to drive in a certain direction, drop everything off, go park you vehicle, and THEN set up. Ditto in reverse for break down - and the city police WILL tow anyone trying to bring in a car/truck BEFORE completely breaking down. Sounds very totalitarian, but it really does work to make this a relatively pleasant experience - unless you can't seem to follow their rules!




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