Saturday
February 2nd until Saturday February 17th
"official" show hours are 10 a.m. until 6 p.m.
However some dealers are notorius to be
night owls and open their rooms until midnight,
so we have a late night shopping experience.
Dealers
and room list :
# 118 Quest, Minerals, USA
# 116 Nicolai Brandner, Germany
# 124
MIKON, Mike Shannon
# 132
Jentsch Minerals, Germany
#
133
Keith Christie, USA
#
134
COBECO, CANADA
#
135 Udo Behner - Crystalgrowing - Germany
If
you have questions you may also contact me :
Udo J.A. Behner
Zum Bildchen 62
66687 Wadern/ Germany
phone +49 6871 91007
Fax +1 206 339 3637
cell +49 174 380 6866
eMail : mr.bismuth@crystalgrowing.com
Where will the show be held ?
The three important things when running a business are LOCATION,
LOCATION, LOCATION !
Our new hotel is the
Econo Lodge
of Tucson
ECONOLODGE-HOTEL
TUCSON
3020 South 6th Avenue
and I-10 ( freeway exit 261 ).
As you can see on the map we are not far from the
"strip"
on I-10
and also not far from the action at Tucson Electric Park, Benson
Hiway
(new Marty Zinn Show) and the shows arround the Holidome).
The hotel is highly visible from the Freeway I-10 and easy to access.
There is plenty of parking at the hotel and nearby.
A Mexican restaurant is on the premises. A now disfunct gas station
could provide adittional parking or exhibition space
( may be tents ?).
We will be not at the end of the action or far out isolated in the
middle of nowhere.
This location is also perfect to be serviced by two different shuttle
routes.
The arrow shows the
location on the Tucson
map !
What about the hotel and the rooms ?
Here you can see the hotel and its close by neighbourhood as a
satellite image :
here again in detail
You can get an overview with google earth opening following link :
http://www.crystalgrowing.com/tucson-shows.kmz
Google earth can be downloaded under http://earth.google.com/
It provides high detailed satellite imagery.
Do I need to register as
a buyer ?
No ! We do not play this gimmick
games with show registration, make it look like you need a special
blessing to walk arround our show.
Our dealers sell wholesale
and retail we are open to the public.
What will you find at
our show ?
As the name of our show says
that will be the SPECTRUM OF STONES so we will have all kinds of
minerals, crystals, fossils,
meteorites, cut and rough
gemstones and also jewelry and rock related items like literature and
equipment.
We will not
have glas beads, pottery, wood carvings, carpets, paintings, scarfs,
clothing, incense, glasware etc.
What
about traffic ?
6th
Avenue is the first freeway exit after the I-10 construction zone.
Between Prince Road and 22nd there is no freeway access !
See I-10 construction .
Along the freeway there will be
3-lane one way streets to cover all the "inner city traffic" which used
to take the freeway traffic. Getting to the hotels on the strip along
I-10 like Days Inn, Riverside, Howard Johnsons or Holiday Inn Express
you will have a hard time.
We are
completely out of this mess !
How do
I get to your show_?
From the
freeway either westbound to Phoenix or eastbound to El Paso take 6th
Avenue exit (#261) to the north. As it may be tricky in times of high
traffic to make a left turn into the hotel property immidiately you
should use this workaround. Drive forward to the next traffic light and
turn left into the shopping center and use that to make a U-turn so
that are southbound and can turn right into the hotel property.
However if
traffic piles up also on the right use the back alley from the shopping
center as shown on the picture.
You might also proceed on Speedway, Broadway, 22nd Street and turn
south into S. Campell Avenue respectivly S. Kino Parkway, hop on the
freeway westbound towards Phoenix and exit again at 6th Avenue.
Here comes a Google map :
view a
larger map
What about parking ?
We have plenty of
free parking on hotel premises, also there is a shopping center within
walking distance.
What
about shuttle service ?
Our show
is serviced by the regular shuttle service run by the City of Tucson.
Also one of our dealers volunteered to run a shuttle on his own behalf
as a pirate shuttle to catch buyers from other places..
What about safety issues ?
We
are situated in the City of South Tucson so our police is South Tucson
police with headquarters just a few blocks away. They have only been
very few minor problems (the worst crime was one stolen banner of our
show). However South Tucson police responded very quickly in all cases
( e.g. chasing shady characters loitring on hotel property). The whole
property is fenced, video monitored and only accessable over the lobby.
What else ?
There
is a Mexican Restaurant on the premises, a Little Caesars pizza joint
in the shopping center in a walking distance, where you also will find
a supermarket with liquor shop and a 99cent store for all your needs.
Tucson Electric Park , Quality Inn (Marty Zinn Show) and Holidome shows
are easy to access by car as we are out of the traffic jam.
A blast from past !
I
included a somehow funny video for you which will explain why we have
the Spectrum of Stones Show which had been created by some former long
time dealers of the Executive Inn. However please note that the
ownership of the Executive Inn changed again in 2007 and the new owners
seem to be very nice people to work with. Unfortunately they need to
fight with the former owner and self invented "show promotor" about the
right to have a show at their own property. I do not know yet what will
happen at the Executive Inn in 2009, but stay tuned !
I heard your show got canceled ?
As you see we are
not canceled ! Yes some people with their own interests in the business
like to spread stories and rumors to kill our show.
It has
been true that we got into trouble as the hotel changed ownership in
November which took us all by surprise.
However
the situation is under control and we are looking forward to 2009.
