Friend of the site Johnny Galaga sent us these photos from the Tampa Hamfest in… well… Tampa Florida. Thanks Johnny!!
Tubes and Boobs…. not always on the gender they should be on…
The inside booths – normally the more prestigious of the exhibitors
Johnny writes: “This is the EXACT same junk they were trying to sell last year. Old circuit boards, cash registers, broken dot-matrix printers, you name it. The guy selling it was actually telling people “$50 takes all”.
Boatanchors….Boatanchors….Boatanchors….
This guy’s so desperate to unload these free monitors that he’s taping dollar bills on the things….
Hahahah what a shitty trailer….
Hamfests in the new millenium: rolling garage sales
The main drag
You know what’s not in style? Kneesocks on fat guys.
Nine Pics and Nine reasons to stay away from Hamfests.
1. Old Tubes,
2. Old Tables with more Junk,
3. Old Junk,
4. Old Boat Anchors made of Junk,
5. Old Junk Monitors,
6. Old Trailers with more Junk,
7. Old Mobile Garage Sales and more Junk,
8. Old Main Drag with more Junk,
9. Old Kneesocks on Fat Guys looking at Junk.
Hmmm, hobbyists trying to unload old Junky crap on the newbies, what a hobby!
I must say at least at the bigger Hamfests in the USA, the availability of beer makes it more fun.
the old Travel trailor is actually a Special kind i remeber seeing on History channel about that type and there is a club of PPl who restore/fixthem up