Shamrock Marbles Posted Friday at 10:47 PM Report Share Posted Friday at 10:47 PM …someone who posts here took this picture of Harry Besett demonstrating at Wheaton Village. I’m hiding behind Drew Fritts in the front row. Those Wheaton shows were the best! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted Saturday at 02:16 AM Report Share Posted Saturday at 02:16 AM There is no hiding... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamrock Marbles Posted Saturday at 04:08 AM Author Report Share Posted Saturday at 04:08 AM Pictures from Brian Bowden: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamrock Marbles Posted Saturday at 07:36 PM Author Report Share Posted Saturday at 07:36 PM Wheaton is still pretty much the same 20 years later… 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted Saturday at 10:18 PM Report Share Posted Saturday at 10:18 PM I have never understood why they seemed to lose their enthusiasm for hosting the marble collectors show. One of the staff of one shop their told me that the BOD wanted to take the entire facility in a new direction - hence the renaming. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamrock Marbles Posted Saturday at 11:23 PM Author Report Share Posted Saturday at 11:23 PM Alan, I agree with you. It wasn’t like they had a better show wanting that time slot. Our first visit to the show was most confusing. It cost us more to attend the show and events as a guest than attending as a dealer. The next year and subsequent years we returned as dealers and it was cheaper! Heck, we even sold marbles! Wheaton did everything to thwart visitors from attending. Poor attendance resulted in poor sales. My wife and I are fully employed engineers. We didn’t need the marble sales income. Whereas, the full time artists needed to recover expenses. Some traveled from California! It broke our hearts hearing the grumbling. Wheaton managed the program into a death spiral. Shame. I cherish the memories and friendships. Do you remember Harry making his sonar sound into the microphone during his demonstration? “Boop, boop, boop, boop”? He also talked about encasing the cobalt glass in the crystal and was worried about contamination of the clear. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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