A Different Kind of Show

wbraswell · #1 10-17-2016, 10:12 PM

I visited the Metroplex this past week, to visit friends who had invited me to stay with them and go to the State Fair of Texas. Senior Day is Thursday, so we got in free. On Friday, we went to the Ft. Worth Stockyards, because I had never been there. We were there while they had the Texas Gun Collectors Assoc. gun show, in the cowboy museum down there. I knew this show was there, but didn't know it would be so convenient for us to go. This isn't a big show, maybe 200 or so tables, but this is the good stuff. Loads of early SAAs, top break S&Ws, Winchester lever guns, 1911s (real 1911s, not generic .45s) and loads of other treasures. So many things, so little money in my pocket. I saw an excellent S&W top break, large caliber carbine, in the box! Many cased Colt black powder guns, a like new, unfired Remington Model 11, U.S. marked riot gun. At one gentleman's table I saw a couple of RMs among his wares. One was a very worn KCPD gun, with the barrel cut down, and post war grips was marked $1495, the other was an excellent, as least on the left side, with correct magnas, or correct type, with the box and around 8 3/8ths barrel for 10 grand. There wasn't a polymer frame or speck of stainless steel in the whole place. It was refreshing.

joeintexas · #2 10-18-2016, 10:33 AM

So how was the fair? Did you try the fried pickles? Been wanting to go just haven't built up the courage to fight that traffic. The Ft. Worth stock yards are worth the trip though.

mrchuck · #3 10-18-2016, 01:17 PM

I grew up going to the Fair and the Midway.
Haven't gone back as an adult.
Don't like the neighborhood.
From 2008 thru 2012, spent weekly trips and many hospital visits as my wife battled breast cancer in the Baylor Hospital complex.
Many operations and is cancer free again.
That area is dangerous for an old LEO to spend that much time in.
The law of averages can catch up to you.

wbraswell · #4 10-18-2016, 02:26 PM

The fair was nice. You don't notice the neighborhood, just get off I-30 and drive into the parking lot. I didn't eat the things I thought I would. I had a brat on a bun, that was just OK. Love the fresh squeezed lemonade. I wish I had gotten kettle corn. and the only place the crowd was bad was around the Fletcher's Corny Dog stands. We didn't go in the midway, the best rides I saw were the auto building's Raptor and Viper simulators, and the massage recliner chair displays that are all over the place. Man, those were sweet.