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Meeting LSC members - Big Train Show?

For LSC members attending the Big Train Show, Ontario, CA, is there a meeting area - member booth? – whereby messages can be left and members can congregate? Member Vic Smith has a “pizza layout” (?) noted on display and that may be a good location.
Suggestions?

Hey guys, enjoy!!! Here in the East we do that at the ECLSTS and it’s definitely one of the highpoints of our year. If you’re anywhere within a day or two’s drive out there you should definitely make the effort to join Wendell and meet up with the fellas. Forget about the shopping; the social aspect of this thing is WAY more fun!

I guess you know that at the ECLSTS we book a small meeting room for a little communal drop in and bring and brag in the evening. Figure about $100 dollars split 20-30-40 ways. Put out a cookie jar at, say $5.00 a head or PWYC. Any extra $ collected goes to a charity.

The evening’s BYOB of course. Love to be there…

Wendell, I’ll be at the Z scale layout, come by and say hi, I might even have my “flatcar” layout on display… a Z scale layout on an Aristo flat car… If I can ever take the bow out of the flatcar…

Greg

Greg-
Thank you. I’ll look for you.
Any others that wish to meet, please indicate your location also.
Wendell

I dont mind my layout being a meeting place but I do have one request, if you stop by, please tell me your name.

I am rather embarrassed to say that last couple shows folks have come by and talked then left but I never really learned who they were. I recognize faces quite easily but names…well names have always been a problem. Takes a while for me to put a name to the face, even though I can recognize folks I went to college with 25 years ago, I won’t remember their names. At a typical show I get hundreds of folks stopping by the layout, some talk some dont, but some are folks I see at every show and I’d really like to able to put a name with the face.

Now I do know quite a few folks from past shows by name, (I am not senile, well not yet anyways) and some folks I recognize by there forum pictures but I think if we are going to have a meeting zone maybe we should all bring our LSC Name Badges (Yes we did have those once upon a time) that would help break the ice when we get together.

I don’t have to show you any stinking badges!

[youtube]http://youtu.be/VqomZQMZQCQ

Somewhere I still have my LSC badge that I printed out. Somewhere…

Of all the things that I’ve lost, I miss my mind the most.

We all share Victor’s problem, which is so common and so painful that books have been written about it.

Unlike names such as Laughing Water or Standing Elk, which can be easily pictured in the mind, our European-based names, being entirely abstract, cannot readily be formed into mental pictures and so are a problem for all of us.

You can spare both yourself and the other some embarassment by shaking hands and just boldly announcing your name, whether you think the other has remembered or not.

Accompany this with a raised eyebrow suggesting you’d like him to do the same, adding a verbalization such as “…and I’m sorry…” if you think the guy needs a little more prompting, or if he’s really thick, just flat out ask.

There are memory tricks for this, but we can’t always take the time to learn and apply them.

Try to associate a new name with a cartoon-like mental picture, the more lively and ridiculous the better.

Put Ted in a tent, or struggling under one, Tom on a tom-tom, preferably bouncing like in a cartoon, Will(iam) in a well, Rick on a stick, maybe a broomstick, or on a brick, or being hit by a falling one, or on a rock, sliding down, etc, etc. Victor could be standing on top of a rise, his arms raised in victory, and so on… Smith of course isn’t abstract. If you want to remember that, just have him hammering at an anvil of course. If you already know someone with the new guy’s name, it’s easy: just put the new face near the one you know and mentally see them chatting together, or wrestling…

Don’t worry about becoming unable to know a guy’s name without your secret llittle mental crutch. Once you’ve got their names straight your crutches won’t be necessary. They will fade rapidly into oblivion, so you can re-use the same ones anytime…

If you want to get together at the show, there’s no harm in having an adequate supply of chairs so the gang can sit around and get acquainted. This also might provide a place for the guys to stash their stuff at your display.

Greg: assuming it’s plastic, whatever you do, don’t attempt to straighten that flatcar in some kind of straightening device over the kitchen stove. Please don’t ask me how I know this. I do have pictures, but they’d break your heart …

I’ll just say there’s very little temperature difference between slightly soft plastic and uncontrollable goo…

Gee, I seem to have unasked-for advice for everyone today… just don’t hate me, ok?

Cheers, you lucky fellas, and have a great time!

(Edited to put my spaces back between the paragraphs… what’s wrong with this thing now…???)

Wendell, i suggested anyone that is around get together at the Pizza layout at 10 a.m. Saturday.

John, 10-4 on the plastic. Did an experiment, since several friends counseled to use heat.

Not only is the temperature range between flexible and not flexible narrow, the differences in thickness of the plastic means that certain parts will get hotter sooner. I’m using a long term “stretch” with lead weights and sitting in the sunlight on a warm day. The 1/2" bow on the Aristo flat car is not much in G scale, but big enough to make a noticeable tilt in the Z scale loco.

Anyway, derailing the thread. I’ll look for pizza around 10 am.

Vic, should I bring any extra bashing goodies for you? Can you use some USAT 12" straights, or other stuff? Last time you were unsure of your attendance.

Greg

FYI guys the show doesnt open till 10am. Doesn’t matter to me I will be there setting up by 9am.

Greg sure, bring whatever you want to bring. I got an email confirmation. Once I get a final layout map I’ll post a link.

Let’s shift it to 11 even though some of us will be there earlier to bug Victor!

Doug, i guess that gives me an hour to work my way around to see if there is anything worth taking home

John that was one thing I was thinking. Alot of temptations along the way between the entry and pizza. This way if you see something you can grab it.

Damm guys, I was in So-Cal last week, Doug and Ray can vouch for me, I can’t make it back again…. Bad timing on my part, Now after the “BIG ONE” and the cruse ships dock in Pomona, then it might work out for the better.

Vic, do you think you will be in the back this time? I kinda like your walmart greeter location you have had at the fairgrounds show.

John M. said:

Vic, do you think you will be in the back this time? I kinda like your walmart greeter location you have had at the fairgrounds show.

I got an email confirmation that I will be placed next to the Door Hollow Shortline layout. Its off to back side side. The big mfrs Bachmann and USA get the greeter location.

Vic Smith said:

John M. said:

Vic, do you think you will be in the back this time? I kinda like your walmart greeter location you have had at the fairgrounds show.

I got an email confirmation that I will be placed next to the Door Hollow Shortline layout. Its off to back side side. The big mfrs Bachmann and USA get the greeter location.

So, you’re at the back of the bus, then.