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September 2020 #12254 Page #140
on 2020 BC
Joe Kannapell - P.E. Senior VP, MiTek USA www.mitek-us.com
BCMC 2014
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n place of this year’s BCMC, why not travel Charlotte, NC. virtually to several Shows, beginning in Louisville in 1972…
Arriving at the sprawling Fairgrounds from the Colonel Sanders Inn, I walked through a maze of modular home sections and finally found our 8x10 booth. All the component-oriented displays seemed not relevant to the theme of the Show: building whole houses offsite on automotive-type assembly lines. On the drive back to St. Louis, I questioned where our industry would fit in these mega-factories, which Wall Street bet would become the dominant source of housing. However, by 1980, the tables had turned. Industrialized housing and its annual Show were out, BCMC 2007 and structural components and Columbus, OH. OH. an inaugural BCMC were in. We drove back to Louisville but bypassed the old fairgrounds, heading downtown to a brandnew convention center. After checking in and admiring the awesome atrium of the Hyatt Hotel, we got to the Show by just crossing a bridge. Fortunately for some, the downtown still retained its not-so-attractive attractions, I am told. Most, but not all, industry revelers returned to hotel before dawn. In many ways, the component business was coming of age, earning its place in the building industry.
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