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Hello, I received a flyer regarding this show. Contact Madison Auto & Motorsports Show at 608-237-7663 or madisonautoshow@yahoo.com.
Last we heard it was in Utah, they took a loss and moved on. I don’t think we’ll ever find out it it was real or not.
The weather was an issue, I’m sure, but greed paid a big part of the demise also… How much money is really enough? I know there were several complaints about people charged multiple times for parking, and they were registered for the event. Concessions were outrageous, we could go on and on. I’d really like to see a successful show in the Madison area, but it’s well known Madison is not a “car town” and until that changes I don’t see anything happening.
And I’ve heard differently, even received a call from someone associated with the show. Not sure what to think..
I have no idea how this will work, renting the building alone costs a fortune!
Xman wrote:circletrack wrote:Did you miss the other posts about adding jobs? It’s well known Sub Zero will lay off workers, no surprise there.
Guess I missed that: “The state’s 14,600 lost jobs in November not only led the nation but reflected the fifth straight month of declines in the job market.”
So I guess if we had a different governor, we’d be adding jobs left and right? I work in the industry and see businesses closing every single day, recovery takes time.
Did you miss the other posts about adding jobs? It’s well known Sub Zero will lay off workers, no surprise there.
Heard several different stories.. last one was Dave Larson and Full Circle are involved now.
I’ve also heard it’s going to be mostly vendors with a few cars thrown in there.. It will cost you $5 to display your car, food, bands and the whole nine yards. At first it sounded interesting, but the more I hear ~ the more I think it’s a good idea to stay away.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong.
Hometown Days
Will it or won’t it?
As of this week, the odds of Verona having a festival the second weekend of June look good. But unlike in years past, it’s anything but automatic.No matter what happens, the nonprofit, all-volunteer festival known as Hometown Days is gone, having voted itself out of existence in October when members of Verona Community Betterment could not find people willing to take prime leadership roles to make the festival happen.
For years, most of the responsibility for planning and execution has landed on a handful of people, and new members are few. So facing another year like that, last year’s group decided to shut down and hope for an alternative.
Two months later, Verona businessman Brad Zaugg, who had bought the folded women’s magazine Brava two years earlier, was ready to announce he was ready to make a run at keeping the festival alive. The catch was that any profits would go to the magazine and its parent company, which also puts on three expo events a year.
Some argue there’s nothing wrong with that – after all, a professional coordinator such as what the Optimists briefly considered hiring would take a salary in much the same way. And in fact, Zaugg’s plan involves the same community groups in essentially the same way as before.
But whether the community can accept such an arrangement remains to be seen.After all, Hometown Days has always been an event where people who might otherwise make plans for the week stop by and chip in, partly out of a sense of community and camaraderie, partly out of a sense of duty toward charities that have helped make the community what it is.
Betterment alone pumped more than $100,000 back into the community over the past decade, funding Welcome to Verona signs, helping the Harriet Park shelter get built and contributing to large projects for the fire department and senior center.
But Betterment is no more, and after 40 years, Hometown Days is still not a certainty.
I’ve always thought ’66 was a great year for Chevelles (second to ’69 of course).. I’m always amazed at the low mileage cars that come out of the woodwork for these auctions, I imagine several of them spent years in museums. I’ll watch that one too!
