Long Beach Coin Expo - June 2-4-2011

Hey Ryan,
Poor Johnny is probably still on the road. He told me it's a 2.5 hour drive back home.
I had a great time! Let's do it again soon. This was one Pof my better "deal" shows. I snagged 10 common Barber dimes for $1.50 each. She said they forgot to change the prices, and let them go for that ;)
Colonials, not this time :(
Look forward to the next one! There are a couple more CCFers that want to come!

I know I have made three new friends
I'm glad I found the CCF.

Hello guys,

I was my great pleasure to meet you all. It was very nice to meet some fellow collectors face to face and knowing who you are trading/buying on the forum. It was my pleasure meeting two new friends. Thank you Dave and Johnny.

From my corner, all of this happened, thanks in large part to delaner. I've made 2 more new friends, thanks to Ryan. I've met him in two occasion now and each occasion he always brought his girlfriend along.... very impressive!

Btw, we'd talk about establishing some kind of "CCF Southwest Chapter" and may be we can have our quarterly meeting at LB.... we can meet up to talk, discuss about coins, do some trading/selling/buying in person and save some $$ from the shipping cost as well as having more interaction and fun.

Sorry for the late update/reply to you guys. I was so busy in the last couple days: HS friends gathering, work - project delivery, staffs meeting, more project to deliver.....

It seemed like you guys got some great deals at the show.....

I came back the next day with delaner..... we had some fun at the last hour of the show and he helped me got some nice LWC.... all were good until I head to my car and realized that I got a parking ticket (meter's time ran out) for $49... probably the most expensive parking for any coin show. I have trouble w/ parking every time I go to Long Beach.

Btw, I got a whole bunch of VIP Pass to the Ontario Convention Coin Show in July (July 14 to July 16). I don't know what good will that be (haven't read the text yet.... I'll do it tonight) but I thought that it may give us a discount or free entry to the show. If we can organize better, we may have a better turn-out of CCF members at the show. Would you guys be interested in having another meet up on Friday July 15 at this show?

Thank you guys for the great experience.

PS: 2.5hrs drive for Johnny? That's a long drive; I guess you live some where north of Lancaster, may be near Edward Air Force Base? They have great air show up there.....

You bet, I'm all for it! We also missed Cali_Nick and rsxtacee, which was a bummer. And it might be a drive, but SDCoinGuy might be around, and I think Silent, you mentioned going to the SD coin show?

That'd be a heckuva drive for Johnny, but...

Hey Johnny54321, are there ever coin shows up that way? Maybe on up the 14 to the 395 near Bishop, or further on up to Carson City? It'd be fun to get a group together to head up to some of the Gold Mines way up North or at least to Carson City... The drives there are BEAUTIFUL (if you're into beautiful drives through mountains and the like) and the weather during the summer is pretty awesome. =)

Ryan,
That would be cool. I love driving the 395!