General Forum

Detroit isn't that bad. We have a card show 10 times a year, they don't do the shows in the summer. We have two shops that I know of within 20 minutes of me.

when I lived in Virginia Beach, the monthly show was small to be nice. They did still have 3  shops, but one was turning into all comic books.

Figures all the good shops are in South Jersey. I'm in North Jersey, Union County, and haven't been to an LCS in about 5 years. I call the Target in town my LCS because it's the only place I can buy cards in-person.

We are fortunate here in Southwest Ohio with regular shows in both the Cinti and Dayton areas. There is good card shop in Lebanon where I live plus a few others in the area. 

I need to plan a Cincinnati trip with a card show.  It's one of my favorite day-trip destinations anyway.  I will have to research this.

I'm going with Mid-Atlantic. I'm from Jersey, back in the day you had a plethora of card shows and shops around.....now not so much, at least near the Jersey Shore. Last shop I stepped into or card show I went to is at least 10 years in the rear view mirror. BUT Garale/yard yales are really good to me, found some real gems !

East side of Washington State here (Spokane), 2nd biggest city in the state, and NOTHING!!!  2 LCS's, one is a dumpster fire, and the other is great for vintage rookies, and wax, but offers nothing for set building or picking up the semi stars in sets....... havent seen a card show around here since mid 90's. I suppose the 4.5 hour drive to Seattle, or the 8 hour drive to Portland would probably offer alot more.  This site has made collecting alot of fun again!!  Thanks for this great site!!!

I'm truly blessed here in West Michigan, but judging by the number of Detroit fans (whether you still live in the Mitten State any more or not), I think that speaks to the demand.  I can't believe how many Tigers collectors belong to this site.

In Grand Rapids, there are at least 3 shops, only 2 that I'd step foot in.  I have one here in Holland (walking distance from my house), there's one in Lowell, Fremont, 2 in Muskegon, Traverse City and Grand Rapids has a card show AT Least every other weekend.  There are more in the area from Kalamazoo to Muskegon in the fall, winter to spring.

I know the Detroit area has several shops and several card shows a year, at least once a month.

I am surprised there aren't more in Florida where we spring break (near Clearwater) almost every year. Spring break will be in San Diego this year, so I'm hoping there is at least one decent shop I can hit on a bad weather day.

I feel bad for you folks that don't have options, but as Chuck said, the internet is truly the hot spot.  Nothing beats seeing and feeling the cards and not having to sweat whether the USPS will deliver shredded cardboard.

I have a shop about 20 mins from me. He's been around a long time. Card shows are 1 1/2 hour drive from me, either I have to go to Cleveland or Columbus. Last month my friend and I made the road trip to Cleveland. He got me started in the hobby 32 years ago and we had a similar discussion. Used to be every town around here had a shop. Cards shows at the malls and UAW halls were very common. Now all we have is the one shop. I thought about trying to have a show. I can use the dining area of our lodge for next to nothing. Just not sure if it would be worth the effort.

Not much here in MD.

I guess I feel lucky to be in Chicagoland.  I have two shops within a 10 minute drive.  I've gone to two shows in the past decade, both of them being the Sun-Times show and I plan to go to the National in July. One of the shops has a monthly event that has a good number of people (25 people or so) attending.  

Regards,

Mark