JacksonRobinson wrote:Been at the 52+ Joker Convention in Vegas all week. Great people and Holy Crap incredible decks.
That's great!
I haven't been to a 52+J convention since the one in 2000 (in New Haven, CT)! I had hoped to go this year, but travelling with my wheelchair is...problematic.
Did you meet Tom and Judy Dawson? Bob & Rhonda Hawes? Great folks!
I went to all of the 52+J conventions from about 1997-2000, and even got to speak at one of them, on "Using the Internet to Enhance Your Playing Card Collection" (or something like that) in 1998, in Kansas City. Very few of its members knew anything about the Web back then, and it was great to watch their reaction when I showed them things like eBay (which was still called "Auction Web" back then), "The Bob Lancaster Gallery of Unusual Playing Cards" (my own site about the hobby, now defunct), and the sites of several vendors of decks old and new (the Joops, the Getzes, and more).
The members were stunned that the Web could be used for their hobby! All that most of them knew about the web was what they saw on the News about it back then: That major companies like Ford, Pepsi and such had corporate web sites, and that some people used it to find porn. The fact that there might be information about Playing cards on the web hadn't even occurred to them!
I miss those people, and those conventions! I must have dropped a couple of hundred dollars at each convention, returning home with a suitcase full of old decks and reference books about the hobby.
Fun days!
I bet lots of them went out and bought computers after that presentation!