Mid Atlantic Arms Collectors - Greater Reading Expo Center

[xotech]

http://www.maacpsse.com/maac.html


Second Show !! May 19 & 20 Reading, Pa. space for over 1000
tables. Greater Reading Expo Center ( internet map) 2525 North
12th Street, Reading, Pa. 19605 12th street is a short street
and hard to find, 11th street is a main thoroughfare, and has a
exit from Rt 12. Exhibition Drive is only about 200 yards long and
connects 11th Street to 12th Street at the Expo Center Entrance.
This is a brand new expo center with great possibility for a huge
show that Reading, Berks County, and all of Eastern & Southestern
Pennsylvania deserves. Easy access, and FREE PARKING for over 2000
cars. We plan to make this a semi annual show (spring & fall).

Warren Street Bypass is a local name for Rt. 12 (and is not used
on any highway signs)...it is actually called Route 12 East.

Directions to Greater Reading Expo Center Agere Drive has been
renamed to Exhibition Drive

From Philadelphia,PA - Take the PA Turnpike West to Exit 298
(Reading/Morgantown). Follow I-176 North to 422 West, exit onto
Route 12 east. Take 11th Street exit, turn left at light, turn
right at second light on Exhibition Drive.

Alternate Route from Philadelphia,PA - Follow 76 West to 202 South
to 422 West (use Rt 422 west from all of Montgomery County) to
Reading (Bypass) exiting onto Route 12. Take 11th Street exit, turn
left at light, turn right at second light on Exhibition Drive.

From Harrisburg/Pittsburgh, PA and Points West - Take I-76 East (PA
Turnpike) to Exit 286 (Reading/Denver) to 222 North toward Reading.
Continuing straight on will put you onto Route 12 east. Take 11th
Street exit, turn left at light, turn right at second light on
Exhibition Drive.

From New York City,NY - Take I-78 West to Exit 40 (Krumsville,PA).
Take Rt. 737 south toward Kutztown, PA. Pick up 222 South onto 222
Business. Take Route 12 left, exit at 11th Street. Turn left at
light and right at second light on Exhibition Drive.

From Scranton/Wilkes Barre,PA and Points North - Take 476 (PA
Turnpike) South to Exit 56 (Allentown) onto 22 West and 78 West.
Take Exit 40 (Krumsville,PA) and 737 toward Kutztown, PA. Pick up
222 South onto 222 Business. Take Route 12 left , exit at 11th
Street. Turn left at light and right at second light on Exhibition
Drive.

From Baltimore,MD/Washington D.C. and Points South - Take I-95 to
Baltimore Beltway (I-695) West to I-83 North toward York PA to 30
East toward Lancaster PA to 222 North toward Reading. Continuing
straight on will put you onto Route 12. Take 11th Street exit, turn
left at light, turn right at second light on Exhibition Drive.
Please remember this is a new show and a brand new Expo Center. It
takes great public support and patience to build a show. Public
support means more dealer participation. More dealer participation
equals even more public support. With your support this show will
grow larger than the former Fort Washington Expo Center show.

[xotech]

Entrance Fee is $7.00

Parking is free.

[BFit70]

ill be at this one. my appartment is 10 minutes from there, on a bad day

[FlaSport]

Did anyone go to the 1st show in Reading? If so, how was it? A lot of dealers? Well attended? Decent selection? etc???

Thanks,

FlaSport

[mercinarysniper]

Flasport, if my memory serves me correctly, i was at the first show here...i believe it was last year sometime. Seemed like a nice place however there weren't too many people there as there were still some renovations going on in the expo center. While it was not a small crowd, it wasn't the Harrisburg show. As a matter of fact, i would say that it was somewhere between the size of the Philly armory show (400 tables?) and the Harrisburg show (1200 tables).. i know, that's quite a range, but it was worth heading over there... HTH

Mike

[snuffy19608]

I think it was about 600 tables,good selection of stuff,not the huge Harrisburg show but it has the room( and potential) to grow bigger if it's well attended. Being a Berks native I just like the idea of a venue like this back home. Check it out, if we show up more dealers will too.

[xotech]

I was there too. It was held on September 30th and October 1st last year.

About half the dealers I talked to Sunday afternoon said they thought it was a great show. The other half said that it was a horrible show (didn't sell much), but that they would come to the second show to give it another chance.

I've also talked to a few dealers that weren't at the first one and are planning to go to the second show.

I'll be going Saturday morning to check it out again.

Last year's show:
http://www.pafoa.org/forum/gun-shows...po-center.html

[Ramtuff]

I'm planning to be there Saturday morning.

[TheSB]

I bought a Colt from several fine gents in York at the first show, I think its great we have one here in Reading. And I plan on coming to the next one as well as dragging several more people with

[nvrquit]

Considering the last show(and actually the first significant gun show in the Reading area in a Vvveeeerrrryyyy lllooonnggg time) was almost an "OMG, a gun show in Reading" type of event for some that attended, I didn't think it came off that badly.

A number of the LEO contingent that was there seemed to have had the apparent look of questioning doubt when observing the crowd, but for the attendee's were a clean and well behaved.

As for the vendors, that's how it goes many times when a venue returns to an area that isn't warm to the thought politically(hey, it's Reading and Dem controlled for an extremely long time) and foreign to the experience for so long. I know that I referred a nice find of a Beretta 92FS Inox Compact L, Type M to the Classifieds board on the Beretta Forum, as I already had such a model. The post I placed didn't go un-noticed and a forum member contacted the vendor/seller and the pistol now has a new home. Sometimes the sale doesn't always happen at the show........

Now, maybe this time around I'll find the Beretta 92FS Inox Brigadier I've been looking for such a long time....

See you at the show(or on the range)!