Those of you attend swap meets should be familiar with Hershey. There is Hershey in the Spring, Hershey in the Fall, and often Hershey in the Mud. My Dad shot a VHS video of the 1990 edition. Recently, my son digitized it. I sent it to the AACA library, and they posted the video on their youtube channel. Here is the link: The audio is done by my Dad. I still have some of the Hershey mud on a few of my tables! Jon
The good old days!! I talked to a guy that bought all the $2 umbrellas K Mart had and he was selling them for $20. People were taking two garbage bags, one foot in each bag and duct taping around their thigh to keep the up. But if you notice people were still shopping unlike today were they just walk by staring at there phone.
Oh yuk I hate mud. Especially when clay is in the mix So your pop was into carbs too? Thanks for sharing
No - Dad was not into carbs. He furnished the motorhome in which we traveled. He did help with the manufacture of rebuilding kits. After a couple of swap meets, I had some business cards made for him with the title "Father of the President". Dad really enjoyed handing out those cards. He did a lot of videos, and they are a link to memories. Jon
I remember those days at Fall Hershey. Mud and huge puddles that were probably a foot deep that you carefully had to walk around. I remember one year, I think in the late 1980's, that it rained quite heavily during the night and there was water everywhere, and the water was quite deep in spots. The vendors had already been set up before the rain and the next day was sunny so you could carefully walk around the grounds. I was on the lookout that year for a pair of Stromberg 97 carbs. I came across a vendor that had a box of 8 NOS original never used Stromberg 97 carbs. Problem was that the box of carburetors were on a table backed up to a motorhome, and in between where the vendor sat and that table was a massive puddle well over a foot deep and 20 feet long. The vendor said if you can get the box you can have them all for $50. Well you guessed it. I took off my shoes and socks and blue jeans as well, waded in the giant puddle for about 10 feet, and got that box of carbs. Clothing all went back on, paid the man and I was on my way. I still have 4 of those carburetors left and every time I open the cabinet and see those carbs, I think back to that day at Fall Hershey.
I remember some of the old shows at Stowe, Vermont were the same way. Dump trucks hauling gravel in and bulldozers pulling motor homes and trailers out of the mud. Never made it to Hershey swap meet but mud is mud.
Thanks for the video, been to Hershey three times but have been lucky and had good weather on all 3 trips between 1966 and 2017. It is very civilised now with it being on all bitumen so the scenes on the video will never be repeated.
I attended Hershey during the mud era. I remember seeing guys who had gone down into the slop who were half clothes colored and half mud colored. Sometimes, the mud had such suction on your foot that I had to look down to make sure my boot was still there.
I remember the Hershey mud back in the 1970's. They had tractors available to tow you out of the mud. My partner had the front bumper of his F-150 pulled almost all the way off by an exuberant tractor driver.
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